Publications

Trust from the ground up  Highlights from NGI Asure 2020-2024

Trust from the ground up is a booklet featuring all 152 free and open source projects that received support from the NGI Assure program which ran from 2020 till 2024. The goal of NGI Assure is to support projects that design and engineer reusable building blocks for the Next Generation Internet as part of a complete, strong chain of assurances for all stakeholders regarding the source and integrity of identities, identifiers, data, cyberphysical systems, service components and processes. NGI Assure is part of the Next Generation Internet, an initiative of the European Commission under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology.

Changing the Chip Industry  How Public Investment Has Grown Open Silicon

Changing the Chip Industry: How Public Investment Has Grown Open Silicon is an article written by Jeffrey A. McGuire about the current state of open Electronic Design Automation and its contribution to technological sovereignty. It is the first installment of a five-part series, made in collaboration with Linux Magazine on how public funding of open source contributes to digital autonomy. Each article focuses on a specific ecosystem supported by the NGI Zero programs that is of strategic importance to increase digital autonomy.