European stack
Sovereignty is not a word one can put on a marketing pitch and then buy into systems that send all your children data to a server in a jurisdiction where your rights need not be respected. Working in the public interest of European citizens means contributing to supply chains that share our rights and obligations and procure from these suppliers whenever possible. Total independance might not be possible in a globalized world, but interdependance shouldn’t mean giving up your rights.
A european way of doing
A criticism that is often heard is that European innovation is too slow or bureaucratic, that a market with our constraints cannot be innovative, that Europe needs to copy the venture capital model that has poven to work in. Yet the first web server came out of CERN, a European research institution. The Linux kernel that now runs much of the internet started its life as a weekend project in Finland. The mobile revolution began in Sweden. And Tiktok’s algorithm, perhaps the most valuable algorithm in tech, runs on Apache Fink, a European open source initiative. The list is long. Innovators born in Europe have been decisive in creating the fabric of digital services we enjoy today and while we might have fewer billionaire tech executives and fewer hundred billion companies. European tech is not lacking in innovation.
The EU is slowly but steadily eliminating bureaucratic barriers that hinder internal trade, it is making the bureaucracy of starting a business easier to manage. Creating sources of funding to create ecosystems of innovation that go beyond any single brand name.
People and systems that understand one another
Mutual intelligibility, or as we prefer to say, people and systems that understand one another. We use plain language and put people at the center of all system design. We strive to avoid jargon, so that people can find on ramps to work with the systems they need.
Design things that last
Simplicity over trends.