Digital sovereignty and the FOSS-stack at school. (WHY2025)

The need for digital sovereignty has always been great, but now there is an autocrat in the White house that is fighting everything he deems “Woke”. This renders USA Big Tech that is run by billionaires that have sworn loyalty to this new King unsuitable for use in education. In this presentation we'll present the WHY for the FOSS stack for schools, our plan how to get there, and the progress we have made so far on our pilot schools. The need for digital sovereignty has always been great, but now there is an autocrat in the White house that is fighting everything he deems “Woke”. This renders USA Big Tech that is run by billionaires that have sworn loyalty to this new King unsuitable for use in education. Schools are yearning for a more fair digital environment, but most schools don’t have the funding, knowledge or capacity to create a public-values-by-design school IT environment with all the fantastic free and open source software that is out there. That is why we started the coalition for fair digital education, so we can bring together the knowledge of free and opensource with the needs of the educational sector. In this presentation we'll present the WHY for the FOSS stack for schools, our plan how to get there, and the progress we have made so far on our pilot schools. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/XZBREW/