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"In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office. Bureaucrats in a German state have also turned to free software for their administrative work. Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives."
Governments and public institutions across Europe are reducing reliance on U.S. Big Tech and adopting domestic or free software alternatives. France will replace Zoom and Teams for 2.5 million civil servants with a homegrown video-conferencing system. Austria's military has switched from Microsoft Office to open-source office software for report writing. A German state bureaucracy has adopted free software for administrative tasks. Growing concerns include data privacy, fears that U.S. geopolitical pressure could prompt service cutoffs, and a desire to strengthen regional technological capacity and digital sovereignty.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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