What infrastructures should Europe build?
We should ask ourselves: What Europe do we want? What infrastructures do we need? How can we build them?
A Project by the European University Institute
AlternativeInfrastructuresLabReimagining European InfrastructureReimagining Europe↓
So far, Europe has mostly regulated what exists…
A series of legislative initiatives aims at governing the stack from different perspectives, from competition law to online expression, from cloud to product liability.
Or building European versions of what others have done elsewhere.
By mimicking or replicating solutions coming from the US or China.
Europe should be building what does not exist. A true
Alternative.
Alternative Infrastructures Lab
This project collects texts, maps, proposals and working prototypes, using the stack as a research framework to relate projects from different topics. Open the stack to see what exists and what is in development.
Check out our first project
Alternative Public Sphere
Europe's public sphere is shaped by infrastructure Europe does not control. This project asks what it would take to build an alternative: first a map of what already exists, from centralised, to federated to peer-to-peer solutions; then a working prototype of an alternative European solution.
Led by Francisco de Abreu Duarte and Thomas Streinz
Open the project →Our Stack so far
All projects →- 07Applicationsplatforms, search, stores, payments, services1 project
- 06Modelsopen versus closed source; training; embeddingsin development
- 05Datalocation, governance, processingin development
- 04Cloudownership, location, data centresin development
- 03Computechips, fabs, energyin development
- 02Networkscables, spectrum, towers, the corein development
- 01Resourcesrare earths, energy, water, labourin development
Do you have an Alternative Idea?
Submit your project ideas for consideration by our Lab.