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When: 15\/6\/20
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ReFLOSS EU 101.CY is part of the Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week<\/strong> and the latest in a series of local unconferences (open space gatherings with an  emergent agenda) aiming towards conscientious and democratically-grounded tech policy, in Cyprus and beyond.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ReFLOSS EU 101.CY is an invitation to come together in a moment of European digital policy visibility. The current policy landscape increasingly focuses on cybersecurity, AI development, and national or EU-first digital sovereingty metrics. In doing so, it risks overlooking the deeper questions that shape our collective technological futures. How do we make decisions regarding our technological future in a way that is inclusive, transparent, and human-centered rather than institutional? What kind of digital futures are we building? And how do we address the systemic pressures, lobbying, institutional inertia, and internal fragmentation, that continue to challenge the FLOSS and digital commons ecosystems from within?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 15th 2026, as Cyprus and Nicosia become the setting of European Digital Policy, we pull together threads and invite individuals and communities that believe in open and freedom-respecting technologies to gather and coordinate in a spirit of informal productivity, to give pulse to a week of activities hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU, and make sure that the most important and urgent digital commons and digital rights-debates are brought it into the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We seek to centre digital rights, digital sovereignty understood as public capacity rather than control, and the digital commons as a shared infrastructure of care and governance. In doing so, we challenge extractive and opaque models of technological development, and instead nurture free, fair, and participatory systems for governance, security, education, and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We call together people who think and work towards digital rights<\/strong> and the democratisation of technology<\/strong>; FLOSS developers, educators, researchers, creatives, and community organisers<\/strong>; those interested in co-creating ethical digital policy<\/strong> and resilient community tech<\/strong>; those invested in mapping the obstacles and opportunities for free\/libre software in public institutions<\/strong>, schools, and cultural spaces; those interested in the Right to Repair<\/strong>, and the “Public Money? Public Code”<\/strong> movement; practitioners and policy-makers looking to move toward grounded, implementable strategies for digital justice<\/strong>; and those interested in connecting the above priorities with sound business practices<\/strong>. We invite all who care about the protection of digital commons<\/strong> and see the need and significance of to support this initiative on this day through in-person participation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally we call on <\/strong>Ubuntu.cy, ELLAK Cyprus, hack66, Hackerspace Limassol, the Cyprus Pirate movement, 101.cy, NeMe.org, UCY, CUT and local universities, local NGOs with budding interest in tech policy, and the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Tech Policy, […]
 and internationally, we invite <\/strong>Freedom not Fear (BE), EDRi (BE), homo digitalis (GR); digital courage (DE);
 
 What to expect <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n