European Tech Sovereignty / Open-Source Strategy
Summary
The EU Open Source Strategy positions open source as a component of European technological sovereignty, especially for public administrations. It seeks to reduce dependency on single vendors and lock-in, while making digital assets easier to discover, reuse and maintain. Planned work includes procurement guidance, operational guidance for open assets, support for open-source bodies and networks, collaboration on key shared assets, and common repository security baselines.
Action items
1–6 of 47 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
Scale up the Open Internet Stack to provide a shared catalogue, a one-stop shop for open source building blocks and sovereign solutions in Europe.
- Item 2
Increase awareness of the EU sovereign tech solutions available, including by mobilising European, national and regional support networks (such asthe Enterprise Europe Network). This includes providing tools for private and public organisations to assess the sovereignty of their digital value chains, building on existing initiatives and the sovereignty framework introduced by the Cloud and AI Development Act.
- Item 3
Promote the development and uptake of open source solutions across the EU Digital Identity ecosystem, anchored by the Identity Wallet (EUID) and the European Business Wallet (EBW). The Commission will:
- Item 4
i) provide tools to support the interoperability, integration and reuse of open source stacks, including a Software Development Kit to support integration of the EUID into relying-party systems and an open source reference implementation protocol for legally valid communication channels for the EBW;
- Item 5
ii) procure the development of open source solutions for the EBW, ensuring reuse of the European Digital Identity Framework standards and components;
- Item 6
iii) transfer the long-term stewardship of the open source reference implementations of the EUID and the EBW to the European Digital Public Infrastructure Foundation;