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Finland proposes participation in the European Digital Commons EDIC
The Finnish government has announced Finland’ s participation in the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium( DC-EDIC) to Parliament. Finland would initially join the consortium as an observer member while reserving the option to apply for full membership at a later stage.
based manner. Examples include Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, the DNS and Internet protocols, Linux and Mastodon.
The establishment of the DC-EDIC is driven by concerns about Europe’ s dependence on imported technologies and closed digital solutions.
The European Digital Infrastructure Consortia( EDICs) are governed by the EU’ s Digital Decade policy programme 2030. These consortia have been established to accelerate and streamline multinational projects to help the EU achieve its common digitalisation objectives.
By participating in the DC-EDIC, Finland seeks to strengthen its own digital autonomy and support the development of open digital infrastructure in line with European values.
In October 2025 the European Commission decided to establish the Digital Commons EDIC( DC-EDIC). Its founding members are France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
The task of the DC-EDIC is to implement a multinational European project for the development, maintenance and scaling of digital commons across the EU and to facilitate their use in the Member States. The consortium will create a sustainable funding mechanism enabling the long-term production, maintenance and dissemination of digital commons.
Digital commons refer to digital solutions and services that are produced, owned and governed in a decentralised and community-
Vienna’ s WienKI wins EU award for advancing secure AI in public administration
Vienna’ s WienKI project has been honored with the European
Commission’ s Public Sector Tech Watch Best Cases Award at the SEMIC 2025 Conference in Copenhagen. The city received the Government-to-Government distinction for its secure, transparent and user-focused approach to integrating artificial intelligence into municipal administration.
City Councillor for Digitalization Barbara Novak said the recognition validates Vienna’ s strategy noting that WienKI demonstrates how modern technologies can operate alongside strict data-protection standards. She said the system is helping make public administration faster, more modern and more inclusive while safeguarding municipal control over data.
Vienna officials presented the project to international experts at SEMIC, an EU initiative promoting semantic interoperability across European e-government systems.
The platform offers employees regulated access to generative AI tools compliant with the EU AI Act, GDPR and EU Data Protection Act. Key functions include multilingual AI assistance, semantic search, automatic anonymization, generative search across internal data sources and extensive accessibility features.
Accepting the award, City Councillor Aslihan Bozatemur-Akdağ said the acknowledgment highlights the work of MA01 and strengthens cooperation with European partners on digital sovereignty. Developed by Wien Digital( MA 01) with multiple city departments, WienKI relies on a hybrid enterprise architecture designed for high data security, flexibility and scalability.
Usage continues to rise with more than 2,500 active users, 70,000 activated accounts, 104,000 chats, 292 million processed tokens, 14,000 knowledge-database documents and 1,600 community members. City officials attribute WienKI’ s success to strong governance, continuous staff training and a modular architecture that supports interoperability, secure data storage and future expansion across Europe.
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