Publications
Changing the Chip Industry July 12, 2026
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.
Trust from the ground up September 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.
Next Generation Internet 2025 October 5, 2018
Next Generation Internet 2025 is a study comissioned by the European Commission in the period 2017-2018 to NLnet foundation and Gartner. The task of the project was to write a vision for the Next Generation Internet, prioritize research topics and advise on how do architect the initiative. The final report of this study was released on October 5th 2018.
