diff --git a/fediversity.md b/fediversity.md index 838afba..0f17aa9 100644 --- a/fediversity.md +++ b/fediversity.md @@ -40,36 +40,38 @@ No software specific for or usable by any single organisation will be created or *Fediversity: Privacy-friendly, sustainable, transparent fair.* -The Open Internet Discourse Foundation project Fediversity is an effort to bring individuals and institutions easy-to-use, portable digital services with personal freedom at their core. +The Open Internet Discourse Foundation's project **Fediversity** is an effort to bring individuals and institutions easy-to-use, portable digital services with personal freedom at their core. We want to help provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use. Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that makes sustainable use of the world. The goal of this project is offer an **alternative to centralised online services and companies that operate closed ecosystems**, thus creating a major impact on the future of the internet, our societies and economies — a unique and meaningful contribution to the *Next Generation Internet* initiative. This objective aligns with the work programme topic by advancing the development of alternative digital solutions that are more user-centric and transparent. -The key technical aspect of Fediversity is to provide the framework for applications to easily switch between different hosting providers, or to their own infrastructure, without losing their data. -This objective is important as it promotes user control and choice, without being locked into a particular platform or service. +The key technical aspect of Fediversity is to provide the framework for networked applications to easily migrate between different hosting providers, or to their own infrastructure, while retaining full control over user data. +This objective is important as it promotes technological sovereignity and choice, and offers an alternative to locking users into a particular platform or service. It would be a unique feature beyond what is currently available on the market. -Concretely, we aim to achieve this using the following sub-goals: +Concretely, we aim to achieve the following objectives[^1]: -1. Implement a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and data portability; -1. Disseminate our results by engaging the open-source community to further expand on work in this direction; -1. Exploit our work by enabling reproducible deployments of an initial set of portable applications. +1. **Implement** a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and data portability; +1. **Disseminate** our results by engaging the open-source community to further expand on work in this direction; +1. **Exploit** our work by enabling reproducible deployments of an initial set of portable applications. + +[^1]: [Disseminaton and exploitation of research results](https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/dissemination-and-exploitation-research-results) defines the terminology we use to frame our objectives. In addition, the team will ensure that all parts of our services use **open-source software**. This will promote transparency and gives users the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the software as they see fit, without artificial restrictions or limitations. ### Relevance -This proposal is highly relevant to the HORIZON EU Programme, specifically to the Human-centric Internet topic. +This proposal is highly relevant to the [Horizon Europe programme](https://commission.europa.eu/funding-tenders/find-funding/eu-funding-programmes/horizon-europe), specifically to the [Next Generation Internet](https://cordis.europa.eu/programme/id/HORIZON_HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-11) fund. The objective of this topic is to support research and innovation in creating a more human-centric internet that prioritises user privacy, security, and control, while also promoting the ethical use of technology. -The proposed work aligns with this objective by show-casing a way to run digital services that prioritises user control and privacy, and by using open-source software to promote transparency and ethical use. +The proposed work aligns with this objective by show-casing a way to run digital services that prioritises user control and data protection, and by using open-source software to promote transparency and ethical use. ### Measurability Tests will concisely describe the abilities the Fediversity system provides. -these tests can be run on any sufficiently powerful machine with Nix installed, and reliably validate that the use cases work as intended. +These tests can be run on any sufficiently powerful machine with [Nix](https://nixos.org) installed, and reliably validate that the use cases work as intended. The proposed work is realistically achievable. ## Application support