‘Public Money? Public Code!’ under this slogan thousands of individuals and hundreds of organisations come together and advocate for Free and Open Source Software in public institutions. Together with over 230 organisations the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is calling for public institutions to publish publicly financed software under a Free and Open Source Software license - If it is public money, it should be public code! The long-term goal of the initiative is to recognise and reduce the software dependency and vendor lock-in of public administration and to make public administrations digitally independent and sovereign.

In this short talk, Bonnie Mehring introduces the "Public Money? Public code!" initiative by the FSFE and discusses how Free Software is the way to achieve digital sovereignty. Bonnie will discuss how public administrations can become digitally independent and benefit from Free Software.

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