• Source: Sovereign Tech Fund

The Sovereign Tech Fund is a funding program from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, aimed at providing financial support to open-source software. The initial funds were allocated by the Bundestag in May 2022.




Purpose of funding


According to the Federal budget of Germany plan, the program aims to promote and secure open-source foundational technologies. It intends to make the open-source ecosystem more resilient against external attacks, thereby enhancing cybersecurity and resilience across the German economy. This initiative fulfills a demand from the coalition government.
The funding is described as time-limited and targeted at specific challenges or security vulnerabilities.




Scope and organization


In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million Euros, which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and is expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The program is initially attached to the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations and is led by Adriana Groh and Fiona Krakenbürger.
Both founders had worked for similar organizations. Adriana Groh had experience from the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund. Fiona Krakenbürger had previously worked at the Open Technology Fund.




Supported projects


As of July 2023, the following projects received funding:

cURL: 97,500 Euro
Drupal: 250,000 Euro
Fortran Package Manager: 182,930 Euro
FreeBSD: 686,400 Euro
GNOME 1 million Euro
GopenPGP/OpenPGP.js: 176,955.16 Euro
OpenBGPd: 111,000 Euro
OpenBLAS: 52,600 Euro
Investment in JavaScript, via OpenJS: 874,940 Euro
OpenMLS: 190,000 Euro
OpenSSH: 200,000 Euro
Prossimo, part of Internet Security Research Group: 143,672.90 Euro
PHP: 205,000 Euro
RubyGems: 195,000 Euro
Samba: 688,800 Euro
Sequoia-PGP: 200,000 Euro
WireGuard: 188,100 Euro
Yocto Project: 759,000 Euro




See also


NLnet
Next Generation Internet
Horizon 2020
Horizon Europe




References






External links


sovereigntechfund.de – Official Website
Mastodon @sovtechfund
LinkedIn

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• SoftBank
• Dell Technologies
• Mata uang digital
• Sovereign Tech Fund
• Government Pension Fund of Norway
• OpenJS Foundation
• Open-source software
• WireGuard
• ActivityPub
• Drupal
• FPM
• Rustls
• GNOME