28/05/2026
On June 15th 2026, as Cyprus and Nicosia become the setting of European Digital Policy, we pull together threads and invite individuals and communities that believe in open and freedom-respecting technologies to gather and coordinate in a spirit of informal productivity, to give pulse to a week of activities hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU, and make sure that the most important and urgent digital commons and digital rights-debates are brought it into the conversation.
We seek to centre digital rights, digital sovereignty understood as public capacity rather than control, and the digital commons as a shared infrastructure of care and governance. In doing so, we challenge extractive and opaque models of technological development, and instead nurture free, fair, and participatory systems for governance, security, education, and life.
We call together people who think and work towards digital rights and the democratisation of technology; FLOSS developers, educators, researchers, creatives, and community organisers; those interested in co-creating ethical digital policy and resilient community tech; those invested in mapping the obstacles and opportunities for free/libre software in public institutions, schools, and cultural spaces; those interested in the Right to Repair, and the “Public Money? Public Code” movement; practitioners and policy-makers looking to move toward grounded, implementable strategies for digital justice; and those interested in connecting the above priorities with sound business practices. We invite all who care about the protection of digital commons and see the need and significance of to support this initiative on this day through in-person participation.
This year’s 101.CY Unconference, follows the call Freedom. Democracy. Internet: Cyprus EU Presidency edition 2026, and is part of the Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week. It is the latest in a series of local unconferences (open space gatherings with an emergent agenda) aiming towards conscientious a...
