Peergos Wins EU Next Generation Internet Grant
Peergos wins EU Next Generation Internet grant

    




Peergos, supported by EU - Next Generation Internet

We are proud to announce that Peergos has been awarded a €200,000 grant by
the Next Generation Internet Program for Open Internet Renovation
(NGI-POINTER). We are incredibly excited to have been
identified as NGI Architects and selected for the program, as it is both
ambitious in scope and aligned with our values. We will be using this
opportunity to develop new and exciting features for Peergos that will see it
evolve into a privacy-focused, decentralized social network.
NGI-POINTER aims to find ambitious "NGI architects" to change the underlying
fabric of the internet and the web. It does so by supporting promising bottom-up
projects that are able to build, on top of state-of-the-art research,
scalable protocols and tools to assist in the practical transition or
migration to new or updated technologies, whilst keeping European Values at
the core.
NGI-POINTER is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 initiative which is
designed to stimulate innovation and economic growth. We strongly believe in
the fundamental
values that the EU
stands for: respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy,
equality and the rule of law. In fact, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
explicitly mentions the protection of personal data and the right to privacy.
We've previously received support from Protocol Labs and through the Oxford
Foundry accelerator program which has enabled us to work on particular aspects
of Peergos and grow as a company. Up until now we have been reliant on time and
work volunteered by our core team, so a grant of this size represents a step
change for us. At least two of our core team members will now be able to work
full-time on Peergos.
The NGI-POINTER program will run for a year, so we have a lot of work to do in
a short space of time. Alongside this project, we will continue towards our
goal of becoming a bootstrapped business by offering subscription plans for
private and secure storage, hosted by us! We think this is the best way to keep
our incentives aligned with those of the Peergos community.
Want to be part of the future? Create an account on https://peergos.net or self-host your own private personal datastore. 


NGI POINTER (NGI Program for Open Internet Renovation) has received funding from the European Commission, as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement No. 871528.

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