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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

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Germany's [1]Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies.

This effort backed by the German government has provided nearly $25 million USD in open-source funding over the past two years. In this time there has been more than 500 submissions proposing over €114 million in work.

This Sovereign Tech Funding has helped open-source projects provide much needed maintenance to their software, enhance the security posture of the software, and make other open-source improvements in the public interest.

Those wishing to learn more about this effort can read [2]this Sovereign Tech Funding blog post as they celebrate their second anniversary.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Sovereign+Tech+Fund

[2] https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/celebrating-two-years-of-empowering-public-digital-infrastructure



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