Europe’s debate on cloud, artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty often assumes a trade-off between competitiveness, control, and cost. Evidence from public-sector procurement…

OpenForum Europe (OFE) welcomes Open Source Initiative’s (OSI) stewardship of the process that has now led to the release of version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition. In line with our vision statement, OFE promotes openness as a means to enable user…

I have always agreed with Capote’s view that autumn, not spring, is the season of beginning. This year, as the world is still grappling with the pandemic but policymakers are also beginning to envision a new future, I hope that autumn will bring critical reflection and seriously fresh thinking to Brussels. In the…

As long-time supporters of Open Source, we had high expectations of last week’s European Commission ambitious workshop ‘Open Source Beyond 2020’. These expectations were exceeded. The event gathered an impressive group of representatives of the relevant stakeholder groups, spanning industry,…

Building on progress made, we stress the need for openness and transparency in implementation On the occasion of the into force of the EU Cybersecurity Act on 27 June 2019, OpenForum Europe (OFE) wishes to reiterate its strong support for an institutionally bolstered and better resourced European…

OpenForum Europe (OFE) appreciates and welcomes the progress made by the co-legislators in improving upon the proposal of the Commission and are pleased to see that many OFE core priorities are reflected in both the Parliament’s Report as well as the Council’s General Approach. OFE…

On June 20, the JURI committee of the European Parliament adopted Axel Voss’ (EPP, DE) report on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The Council has already agreed on a Negotiating Position on the same legislative proposal. Before the two co-legislators enter into…

For the past months, OFE has been involved in an intensive research process regarding the various arguments and approaches relating to text and data mining (TDM) in Europe, which culminated with the paper published today, titled “An analytical review of text and…

OFE together with other 29 signatories, counting trade associations, libraries, community organisations, consumer organisations and more, signed an open letter addressed to the Commission. In this letter we are asking for a Digital Single Market enabling…

Today marks the end of the Commission’s public consultation on a new eGovernment Action Plan for the period 2016-2020. OFE has complemented its answer to the questionnaire with a position paper in which we expressed our support for the Commission’s initiative, but we…

Today OFE published a position paper containing recommendations to the European Commission in the context of the public consultation on online platforms. OFE also submitted a response to the online questionnaire opened by the…

Today OpenForum Europe (OFE) has jointly signed two coalition letters, together with 28 other stakeholders representing civil society, news publishers, consumers and the digital industry. One letter is addressed to vice-president Timmermans, who is…