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You can voice your opinion about the EU's Digital Europe program [1]. The @fsfe is calling upon everyone to fill out the official EU survey to stress the importance of Free Software.

The 6 year €7,9 billion program is on its halfway mark and the EU is doing a survey [2] to learn what people think of the program. The aim of the program is to "bring digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations."

FSFE argues that those digital technologies should adhere to the four freedoms. They wrote an how-to & example answers if you want inspiration https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-02.html

So far there have been 97 responses, so even if we get 5 or 10 surveys in arguing for a Free/Libre/Open digital Europe, it'll be a nice percentage of the total.

Note 1: this is an official EU survey and you'll need to login to their portal. The results will be published but you can opt to publish anonymously.

Note 2. This program is not the Horizon program which funds the Next Generation Internet initiative. Horizon is the EU's R&D program, Digital Europe is entirely dedicated to funding digital technologies.

[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/digital-programme
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13880-Digital-Europe-programme-interim-evaluation/public-consultation_en