SOLID project, European Union and International Science Council push for open source

In a previous email I mentioned the need for authorship, content and data
authentication.
This has resulted in a draft document titled "Authentication, Provenance,
and Trust Infrastructure for Digital Publishing".
But in the original post I mentioned all manner of content including public
sector, commercial and general public domain.
Which got me thinking. Because of this I tried to imagine all the sectors
where AI is undergoing rapid development, and soon realized that the
European Union concerns about AI aren't limited to commercial and social
applications alone but all sectors of government, and in particular law
enforcement and defense.
A quick scan of who the dominant players are in decision-making service
support platforms and utilization therein of AI, produced ONE name,
Palantir.
Five Google searches produced the following: Palantir is linked to Project
Stargate and has direct links to datacenter infrastructure design and
implementation, is actively involved in knowledge representation and
reasoning for AI, uses Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Hegel's
theory of opposites in dialectic as cornerstone for its cognitive
architecture.
And Palantir aims to be the key player in strategic decision-making support
platforms with AI fully integrated, and also has expressed support for the
USA becoming the global dominant force in AI and data integration in
strategic decision-making in all strata of human society.
This is at odds with the General Data Protection Regulation, the Digital
Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the EU AI Act and issues of data
sovereignty, digital rights and privacy have been brought up by digital
rights and privacy watchdog organizations, scientists, engineers and public
sector and industry sector actors.
The following link is highly illuminating:
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/.

This is an initiative created by Francesca Bria who according to Wikipedia
is:
"is an Italian innovation economist, digital policy expert, and information
technologist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics,
economics and society, who lectures at various universities and is a
consultant amongst others to the United Nations and the European Commission.
Bria is Honorary Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public
Purpose at University College London (UCL), where she teaches courses on
digital capitalism and digital cities. She is part of the Management Board
of the Italian public broadcast company RAI, and a member of the EC
President Ursula von der Leyen's High level Roundtable for The New European
Bauhaus.

She is a senior adviser and Ambassador to the United Nation (UN-Habitat) on
digital cities and digital rights. She is the former Chief Digital
Technology and Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona and founder of
the UN Cities Coalition for Digital Rights and the Decode Project, an
EU-wide effort to reclaim citizen's data sovereignty.

She is an Honorary Professor on Technology and Innovation Policy at UCL,
where she teaches about the platform economy, digital sovereignty and
people-centered smart cities."

The email with the 2nd CfP for contributions toThe 4th Privacy & Personal
Data Management Session of the Solid Symposium 2026 drew my attention to
the SOLID Project.

What really got me going was the following post on The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/
And subsequently:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=intcom:Ares%282026%2969111
Now if we look at what the SOLID Project entails:
Https://www.solidproject.org
 It should be abundantly clear that this aligns perfectly with what the
European Union aims to achieve.

And to make the story come full circle to Authentication, Provenance and
Trust Infrastructure for Digital Publishing the following by the
International Science Council:

https://council.science/blog/open-science-round-up-embedding-open-science-incentives-in-research-systems/
Open Science round-up: Embedding Open Science incentives in research
systems.
In this all data sovereignty is key.

My question is: can we combine or expand the Solid project with
Authentication, Provenance and Trust Infrastructure for Digital Publishing
and align this with the EU push for open systems that conserve data and
digital sovereignty?

This could be done within the W3 constellation.

Milton Ponson
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
CIAMSD Institute-ICT4D Program
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