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The European Union is witnessing a radical epistemic and societal change. The way we communicate, produce, socialise, and even govern, are being shaped by privately owned digital infrastructures. People in places as different as Spain and Poland are funneled through the same private conducts to culture, jobs and potential romantic partners. An ultralibertarian version of capitalism has been able to own the public sphere. Data, an abstract, inasible and imprecise concept, has be come key to understanding the conditions enabling the (re)production of capital. Recently, discourses on European digital sovereignty have gained momentum. Faced with an enormous pressure from franco-German national industries to ad vance their interests in the digital economy in the face of Trump's protectionist offensive and the enveloping opening of Xi Jinping, the EU is trying to impose an idea that takes us back to his foundational scenario: the promotion of greater competition will bring about the flourishing of European giants. We propose instead a Democratic Technological Development not shaped by market rules, but inspired by the ideas of solidarity, cooperation and wealth distribution. A community centered technological development built on the basis od democratic digital infrastructures. A fair ecosystem where vast networks of cooperatives can flourish. A space where the logic underpinning digital services is that of the common well-being, the respect for fundamental human rights, and not the profits of shareholders. A space where concepts such as digital economy does not equate with disinformation, data and resource extractivism or algorithmic discrimination.
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