ISOC-CH is a key partner in the Horizon Europe NGI0 Commons Fund, and through this engagement a great opportunity arises to develop as an organization both locally in Switzerland and abroad, creating links between local issues and struggles for digital rights and important developments at the European and global level. The role of ISOC-CH in the NGI0 project is to develop the so-called “Tech dossiers” of free/libre and open software. That is, a comprehensive introduction to a certain are of digital services (e.g., cloud storage, video conferencing, AI), addressing specific audiences (e.g., policy makers, youth, educators, elderly) with a suitable medium (e.g., guidelines, podcast, curriculum). For this project, we are searching for a candidate that will cover the topic of cloud solutions, addressing policy makers and the government in the context of digital sovereignty with an expected engagement of 20% for a period of 1 year, with a possible extension up to 2 years.. In addition, this year, the Board of ISOC Switzerland will be reshuffled. We are looking for additional board members, including for treasurer and/or policy.  For more information and application process, you can reach us at contact@isoc.ch or in one of the upcoming events announced on our web site, https://isoc.ch, and linkedin page. More details about the application process will be announced after the General Assembly 2025. Before, you are very welcome to join the ISOC-CH’s Policy Sessions 2025 on the topic of E-ID, an excellent introduction for this job position! The ISOC-CH board. The post ISOC-CH is hiring! appeared first on ISOC Switzerland Chapter.

The ISOC Switzerland Chapter is proud to be one of the partners of the Horizon Europe project NGI0 Commons Fund, which started on January 1st 2024. The project is part of the NGI0 NGI Zero coalition, led by NLnet Foundation, which uses a very flexible cascading funding scheme that enables a large number of carefully... The post ISOC-CH is a partner of the NGI0 Commons Fund appeared first on ISOC Switzerland Chapter.

The Next Generation Internet initiative has supported Free Software projects with funding and technical assistance since 2018. Despite its proven success, the European Commission made the decision to cut this funding in the current draft for the Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme. This open letter to the European Commission to revert this decision was initially... The post The support of the European Union for free and open source software is at stake. appeared first on ISOC Switzerland Chapter.