The sixth open call of NGI TALER is here! Submit your application!

Got a groundbreaking idea for free software and privacy preserving projects that complement our mission as NGI TALER? Missed our first 5 funding calls? No worries!

NGI TALER’s 6th Open Call is live since 1st of February 2025 and you’ve got almost two month to apply. The deadline is 1st of April 2025, 12:00 CET (noon).

We’re on the lookout for proposals that will revolutionize digital payment systems and contribute to an open, trustworthy, and reliable internet for all.

NGI TALER is offering funding between 5,000 and 50,000 euros! Whether you’re a SME, academic, public sector entity, nonprofit, community, or an individual – we want your innovative ideas!

For example, you can enhance GNU Taler by developing auxiliary tools, improving user experience,creating integrations into FOSS applications (think P2P micropayments in instant messaging, social media platforms, or video conferencing tools), or boosting infrastructure components (like merchant backends), to name a few ideas.

For more info about this and other NGI funding calls, you can visit the NGI – The Next Generation Internet’s website here.

You can read the detailed Open Call, Guide for Applicants, Eligibility Requirements, and FAQs on NLnet Foundation’s website here

Last but not least, you can join our TALER Integration Community Hub (TALER ICH) to discuss and get your questions answered here.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

 NGI TALER is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.


The fifth open call of NGI TALER is here! Submit your application!

Got a groundbreaking idea for free software and privacy preserving projects that complement our mission as NGI TALER? Missed our first four funding calls? No worries!

NGI TALER’s 5th Open Call is live since 1st of December 2024 and you’ve got almost two month to apply. The deadline is 1st of February 2025, 12:00 CET (noon).

We’re on the lookout for proposals that will revolutionize digital payment systems and contribute to an open, trustworthy, and reliable internet for all.

NGI TALER is offering funding between 5,000 and 50,000 euros! Whether you’re a SME, academic, public sector entity, nonprofit, community, or an individual – we want your innovative ideas!

For example, you can enhance GNU Taler by developing auxiliary tools, improving user experience,creating integrations into FOSS applications (think P2P micropayments in instant messaging, social media platforms, or video conferencing tools), or boosting infrastructure components (like merchant backends), to name a few ideas.

For more info about this and other NGI funding calls, you can visit the NGI – The Next Generation Internet’s website here.

You can read the detailed Open Call, Guide for Applicants, Eligibility Requirements, and FAQs on NLnet Foundation’s website here

Last but not least, you can join our TALER Integration Community Hub (TALER ICH) to discuss and get your questions answered here.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

 NGI TALER is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

 


The fourth open call of NGI TALER is here! Submit your application!

The fourth open call of NGI TALER is here! Submit your application!

Got a groundbreaking idea for free software and privacy preserving projects that complement our mission as NGI TALER? Missed our first three funding calls? No worries!

NGI TALER’s 4th Open Call is live since 1st of October and you’ve got almost two month to apply. The deadline is 1st of December, 12:00 CET (noon).

We’re on the lookout for proposals that will revolutionize digital payment systems and contribute to an open, trustworthy, and reliable internet for all.

NGI TALER is offering funding between 5,000 and 50,000 euros! Whether you’re a SME, academic, public sector entity, nonprofit, community, or an individual – we want your innovative ideas!

For example, you can enhance GNU Taler by developing auxiliary tools, improving user experience,creating integrations into FOSS applications (think P2P micropayments in instant messaging, social media platforms, or video conferencing tools), or boosting infrastructure components (like merchant backends), to name a few ideas.

For more info about this and other NGI funding calls, you can visit the NGI – The Next Generation Internet’s website here.

You can read the detailed Open Call, Guide for Applicants, Eligibility Requirements, and FAQs on NLnet Foundation’s website here

Last but not least, you can join our TALER Integration Community Hub (TALER ICH) to discuss and get your questions answered here.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

 NGI TALER is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.


Open letter: The dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online

Today, Homo Digitalis joined EDRi and other 62 organisations and experts urge the European Commission to halt proposals for using age verification tools when implementing DigitalServicesAct and eIDAS.

Evidence and lived experiences show these tools are dangerous, discriminatory and unsafe:

-Exclusive: Document-based verification excludes those without IDs, worsening the digital divide
-Invasive: Their ‘accuracy’ relies on processing vast amounts of personal data, threatening our right to online anonymity
-Pose privacy risks: Age estimation methods often use sensitive data like biometrics, which are prone to errors & bias.
-Discriminatory: Biometric-based approaches can be biased, based on gender, race, or disability.

Age Verification tools aren’t a silver bullet for addressing children’s needs online. Read more in the open letter here.


We spoke to the newspaper Kathimerini and journalist Vassilis Andrianopoulos about cyber-bullying

Konstantinos Kakavoulis, co-founder and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Homo Digitalis, gave comments to the newspaper Kathimerini and journalist Vassilis Andrianopoulos on cyber-bullying and Homo Digitalis’ related pro bono actions.

We would like to thank the newspaper Kathimerini and the journalist for their interest in our actions.

You can read the article here.

 


The third round of NGI TALER Funding Applications is now open! Deadline is October 1!

Do you have an idea for a project based on free software and privacy principles that is relevant to the NGI TALER mission, but you missed our first two open calls for funding?

You still have the chance to make your idea a reality!!! NGI TALER’s 3rd open call for funding has been open since the beginning of June and the deadline for submitting proposals is 1 October , at 12:00 CET (Brussels noon).

We invite you to help reshape the state of digital payment systems and help create an open, trustworthy and privacy-friendly internet for all!

We are looking for project proposals between €5,000 and €50,000. The call is open to businesses, academics, the public sector, non-profit organisations, communities and stakeholders. You can contribute exciting new features to GNU Taler itself, build utilities, work on user experience, develop integrations to FOSS applications and open standards (for example, enable P2P micropayments in an instant messenger, an open social media platform or a video conferencing tool) or develop improvements to infrastructure components (such as merchant backends)!

Visit the NGI – The Next Generation Internet website for more information on this and other funding calls here.

Visit the NLnet Foundation website to read our detailed open call, applicant guide, eligibility requirements and FAQs, and to submit your form, here.

Register now on the TALER Community Interface Hub (TALER ICH) to discuss with us here.


We spoke at an event hosted by KEPSIPI in the context of the Erasmus+ Digital Learning and Social Intervention programme

On Thursday 23rd of May we had the pleasure to participate in the event organized by KEPSIPI in the framework of the Erasmus+ Digital Learning and Social Intervention project and to talk about digital learning and the importance of personal data for social workers from Greece, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Romania and the challenges of using AI tools in the field of social intervention. We would like to thank Ms. Margarita Moraitou for the invitation and her efforts to highlight this issue both nationally and European-wide.

Our Director for AI and New Technologies, Lamprini Gyftokosta, spoke representing Homo Digitalis at the event.

You can learn more about the work and activities of the Centre for Mental and Pedagogical Health here.


Homo Digitalis' participation in the Digital World Summit Greece was a great success

Homo Digitalis had the great honor and pleasure to be present with double representation at the Digital World Summit Greece, today Tuesday, May 28th at the National Hellenic Research Foundation!

Specifically, our Vice President and Partner at Digital Law Experts (DLE), Stefanos Vitoratos, participated as a moderator in the 1st panel of the conference, on the topic “#AI: The intersection between regulation and innovation”, in a fascinating discussion with speakers such as Dimitris Gerogiannis (President AI Catalyst), Lilian Mitrou (Professor, Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean), Charalambos Tsekeris (President of the National Bioethics & Technology Ethics Committee), Yannis Mastrogeorgiou (Special Secretary for Long Term Planning, Presidency of the Greek Government) and Fotis Draganidis (Director of Technology at Microsoft Hellas).

Our Director for Human Rights & Artificial Intelligence, Lamprini Gyftokosta, was a speaker at the 2nd panel of the Digital World Summit Greece 2024, on “Cybersecurity, Citizen Security and Artificial Intelligence”! The panel was moderated by Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos (Co-founder & Director, Athens Legal Tech), while Natalia Soulia (Senior Associate | Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity, KG Law FIrm) was also present as a speaker, Thomas Dobridis (Head of the General Directorate of Cybersecurity, Ministry of Digital Governance), Antonis Broumas (Head of Law and Technology, EY Platis-Anastasiades) and Stella Tsitsoula (Founder, RED. comm, Co-Founder | Women4Cyber GR | Founder Hellenic Cybersecurity Institute)!

We would like to thank the organizers for their kind invitation, as every year, to this important conference.

 

 


We successfully presented our actions at InfoRights 2024 in Corfu

Homo Digitalis has the great pleasure to participate in the Third Interdisciplinary Conference Info Rights , organized by the Reading Society of Corfu on 17 & 18 May 2024 entitled “Human Rights in the Information Age: Benchmarks of History, Law, Ethics and Culture”.

Specifically, on Saturday 18 May, our member Christos Zanganas represented Homo Digitalis presenting our important actions in the field of Digital Rights in our three pillars of interest, Awareness, Advocacy and Strategic Legal Actions!

We would like to thank the organizers for the kind invitation!