Das Progressive Zentrum signs the call “Learning from the crisis: empower civil society organisations!” and calls for an active digital ecosystem that offers real choices.
As a civil society organisation, Das Progressive Zentrum, promotes an independent digital infrastructure and free access to knowledge. Yet, the conversions necessary to contain COVID-19 show one thing above all: large technology companies are benefiting from the shift into the digital sphere. However, to be independent in times of crisis, an active digital ecosystem that offers real choices is needed.
Therefore, as part of the European Hub for Civic Engagement, Das Progressive Zentrum signs the call “Learning from the crisis: empower civil society organisations!” and supports the following recommendations:
- Political openness for input from the digital civil society
- Targeted funding
- Public money, public good
- Development of public digital infrastructure
A critical civil society is one of Europe’s most important resources, because it pushes the entire political landscape with good ideas and improves our democratic coexistence. A coordinated and digital infrastructure can strengthen and protect the European civil society with this mission: it needs a collective platform for the exchange of knowledge, aspirations, needs and talent.
Dominic Schwickert, Executive Director of Das Progressive Zentrum
European civil society needs a coordinated, digital infrastructure. Through this it can exchange, coordinate and systematically implement its forces, knowledge and skills. Active solidarity in the 21st century does no longer need to be dependent on geographic location.
Paulina Fröhlich, Project Leader of the European Hub for Civic Engagement
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