Hi Sam,
I missed your initial email. Thanks for the overview. It would be
something to reflect on at future elections too.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the plans and election
results at the get-together.
Best,
Nico
I've skimmed over all party programmes and extracted everything that
seems related to digital rights [1]. Some noteworthy things (without the
intention of giving any sort of voting advice):
- There is great eagerness to adopt AI.
- Some (PVDA, Volt) explicitly support the idea of Public Money, Public
Code (even if they don't use the phrase as such). The others don't
mention it, which could mean they're not yet well informed enough about
the issue.
- Volt is the only one to dedicate a section title on digital rights and
also the only one to dedicate a section title on open source. They also
mention things like funding of critical software, so it looks like they
have someone in the ranks who knows their stuff.
[1] https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Belgium/Elections2024