Sovereign Tech Agency
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The Sovereign Tech Agency is a subsidiary of the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, aimed at providing financial support to open-source software. The initial funds were allocated by the Bundestag in May 2022.[1][2]
Purpose of funding
[edit | edit source]According to the federal budget of Germany plan, the program aims to promote and secure open-source foundational technologies.[3] It intends to make the open-source ecosystem more resilient against external attacks, thereby enhancing cybersecurity and resilience across the German economy. This initiative fulfills a demand from the coalition government.[4] This is also an approach to the classic free-rider problem faced by many open source projects.[5]
The funding is described as time-limited and targeted at specific challenges or security vulnerabilities.[6][7]
Scope and organization
[edit | edit source]In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million euros,[8] which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and was expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The executive team consists of:
- Adriana Groh (co-CEO), previously from the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund[9]
- Luisa von Beust (co-CEO), previously at several commercial organizations
- Fiona Krakenbürger (CTO), previously worked at the Open Technology Fund[10][11]
Supported projects
[edit | edit source]As of April 2025, the following projects received funding:[8][12]
- ActivityPub testsuite: €152,000
- Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM): €562,800 [13]
- coreutils: €99,060
- cURL: €195,500
- domain: €993,600
- Drupal: €278,700 [14]
- The Eclipse Foundation: €515,200 [15]
- FFmpeg: €157,580 [16][17]
- Fortran ecosystem (e.g. Fortran Package Manager, fpm): €816.000 [18] €182,930
- FreeBSD: €686,400 [19]
- GNOME: 1 million €[20][21][22]
- GNU libmicrohttpd: €300,000
- GopenPGP/OpenPGP.js: €176,955
- GStreamer: €203,000
- JavaScript ecosystem (see also OpenJS below, for additional investment): €176,955
- JUnit: €180,000
- Log4j: €596,160
- Mamba: €349,875
- OpenBGPd: €200,000
- OpenBLAS: €263,000
- OpenJS (investment in JavaScript, see it also above): €874,940 [23][24][25]
- OpenJS Foundation: €874,940
- OpenStreetMap: €384,000
- OpenMLS: €195,000
- OpenSSH: €200,000 [26]
- Pendulum: €449,850
- PHP: €205,000 [27][28]
- Prossimo, part of Internet Security Research Group, to support projects including Rustls:[29][30] €1,436,729
- Python Package Index: €1,056,672
- Reproducible builds: €353,430
- RubyGems & Bundler: €668,400
- Samba: €688,800 [31]
- Sequoia PGP: €900,000
- systemd: €455,000
- WireGuard: €209,000
- Yocto Project: €759,000 [32][33]
See also
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- NLnet
- Next Generation Internet
- Horizon 2020
- Horizon Europe
- EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)
- Technological sovereignty
References
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External links
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