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We are securing open digital infrastructure as the foundation for a future-oriented economy and modern society
Digital sovereignty empowers us to shape our own future. This requires more than simply using digital technologies; we need to actively be part of building them - to be independent, secure, and competitive.
The foundation for this is open digital infrastructure. Much like roads and railways serve as physical infrastructure, invisible software components are the bedrock of our economy and society. Components like programming libraries, open standards, and developer tools are essential for innovation and competition.
Digital infrastructure emerges from an open source ecosystem that makes it possible to reuse, quickly distribute, and maintain digital technologies. Sustaining this ecosystem protects Germany's and Europe's digital sovereignty, capacity for innovation, and economic competitiveness today and in the future.
With the Sovereign Tech Fund, we invest globally in the open software components that underpin Germany's and Europe's competitiveness and ability to innovate. By targeting core digital infrastructure, our investments scale across many sectors and benefit a broad range of users. Improving the security, stability, and reusability of open software components directly enhances the productivity, competitive edge, and capacity for innovation of startups and small and medium-sized businesses.
The Sovereign Tech Resilience program takes a holistic approach to protecting critical digital infrastructure. Severe vulnerabilities in open software components have far-reaching consequences, affecting millions of people and impacting software products of all kinds that make use of them. To mitigate these risks and prevent untold damage, it is not enough just to find and fix bugs. We need to take proactive measures to improve the resilience of open digital infrastructure in the face of undiscovered vulnerabilities.
Our fellowship program supports key individuals and strengthens the open source ecosystem in a way that transcends individual technologies and industries. By focusing on the people behind the code, we highlight and provide recognition for the often invisible work that goes into our digital infrastructure. In this way, we are empowering more people to put their skills and experience toward making the open source ecosystem more resilient and sustainable for us all.
Open standards determine how software interoperates, how data flows, and how secure and accessible our digital infrastructure is. Yet the open source maintainers who implement these standards are rarely part of the processes that produce them. Participating at IETF, W3C, and ISO takes time, expertise, and resources. The Sovereign Tech Standards network closes that gap by supporting open source maintainers' engagement in standards work, bringing implementation experience into the room where critical decisions about interoperability are made.
The Sovereign Tech Challenge uses a competition model to identify challenges in the open source ecosystem and develop new and innovative solutions. Examples of potential objectives could include developing forward-looking solutions in open software components that are useful for emerging technologies, or securing existing dependencies.
The EU Sovereign Tech Fund pilot will make targeted investments in Europe’s critical open digital infrastructure. Whether you build, use, fund, or study open source, take the survey to inform the pilot’s design and investment priorities.
The Sovereign Tech Fund commissions more than €1 million of work to make Let's Encrypt, which secures a large share of the web, ready for quantum computers.
Email newsletter on 29 October: Our 5-year anniversary, PHP2Shell, Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunch and more
We regularly publish studies, evaluations, papers, and other reports related to our work securing open digital infrastructure.
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