[Chapter-delegates] What would you do with 10 million euro to improve the internet?

[Michiel Leenaars]

Hello all,


there is a very interesting opportunity to decide on the fate of 750 
million euro (851 million dollar) to be spent on the 'future of the 
internet'. The European Commission has a Net Futures directorate which 
was establish to pioneer and coordinate research, innovation, and policy 
initiatives on what lies beyond the current Internet architecture, 
software and services.

In its own words: it is now "updating its vision for the area, 
identifying key technological challenges and research priorities, and 
establishing a research and innovation agenda for the coming years". But 
it doesn't mention surveillance, Snowden, the IETF yet - and that is 
where we as a network and community of people and organisations that 
care about the internet come in.

Your input (even a few lines) and those of your chapter members can have 
a huge impact, because (as astounding as it is) for that huge budget 
only a few dozen responses are expected. Any response pointing to the 
need to invest in fixing the broken parts of the internet and its 
accumulated technical debt first, makes a difference.

I've written up some background at the NLnet foundation website:

https://nlnet.nl/people/leenaars/ec/

Please create something in your own language, and share this with your 
members. This is a *huge* opportunity to fix the tragedy of the commons 
by using budgets that are already earmarked to actually fix things. The 
deadline is April 10th. Thanks for your help!

Best,
Michiel Leenaars

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