The European Commission has proposed the policy programme “Path to the Digital Decade” to enable the digital transformation of our society and economy by 2030. The Path sets up a concrete legal framework to help achieve the 2030 Digital Compass targets, the four cardinal points for the next decade: digital skills, digital infrastructure, digital business, and digital public services.

The European Commission has published the results of a study analysing the economic impact of Open Source Software and Hardware in the European economy. It is estimated that companies located in the EU invested around €1 billion in Open Source Software in 2018, which brought about a positive impact on the European economy of between €65 and €95 billion. Many NGI-supported projects are open source by design.

Tune in to the latest NGI Architects’ Podcast: Quantum Secure Trust and Authentication for the Next Generation Internet.

A career-long effort by digital privacy pioneer Prof. Bart Jacobs to make the Internet more trustworthy, supported by NGI, has been recognised by the highest award in Dutch science.

Cubbit, an NGI Trust supported project has closed a €7 million funding round, comprising €3.5 million in equity, €2.4 million in convertible notes and €1.1 million in debt. Cubbit is the first European provider of distributed cloud storage, whose services go beyond current market standards of security, privacy and environmental sustainability.

The latest advancements in privacy and trust-enhancing technologies for the Internet of Humans supported by NGI feature personal data protection, secure medical IoT, safe internet search, fair AI text assessment, privacy preserving deep learning for videos and images as well as a project to protect children from on line threats.

Spanish researcher Cristina Marquez got to work at MIT in the US on her passions for entrepreneurship and mobile applications, thanks to a grant from NGI Explorers. Cristina explains how she was able to realise a childhood dream and her determination to ensure gender balance in science.

How to simplify data exchanges and portability between end-users, utility and energy third-party companies? The purpose of the ORATORIO project of GridPocket is to deliver a trusted energy data hub where end-users can safely and easily store and share their data with their preferred energy services providers. End-users can access an increased number of energy services and energy companies can gain more customers.

€2.5 million funds and support to empower data portability innovators. Are you an internet innovator ready to tackle the data portability challenges? The NGI Data Portability and Services Incubator (DAPSI) get you up to €150k, technical & business support, and access to top infrastructure.