New Partnership between NGI Sargasso and AIPSS: Strengthening the Technological Next Generation Internet Ecosystem
AIPSS, or AI Professional Software Solutions, a Romanian SME that develops Gov-Smart, a cloud-native platform for the digital transformation of municipal services and citizen engagement, is the latest acquisition for the NGI Sargasso InnoConnect Hub.
This Romanian SME, led by Alexandru Panait, its Founder, is the European counterpart of two NGI Sargasso-funded projects, “Trustless Democracy: Decentralized Digital Sovereign Identity and Voting System using Blockchain Technology" and “DES: Decentralized Electronic Signature using Blockchain based Digital Identity”, both contributing practical, human-centric solutions to the Next Generation Internet ecosystem.
Through this new partnership, AIPSS will provide visibility to the outreach activities that NGI Sargasso organizes around efforts and contributions to ICT Standards to its extensive network of stakeholder communities and through its main digital outlets. At the same time, from NGI Sargasso, we will also promote the AIPSS activities, and participate at any webinars or events of mutual interest to keep boosting digital innovation for Next Generation Internet technologies and services across continents. In fact, in June 2024, we already announced that AIPSS created the world's first platform offering public administration as a service, while digitizing public institutions in Romania.
AIPSS: Prioritizing Analysis and Cybersecurity
At AI Professional Software Solutions (AIPSS), their foundational values shine through their team’s relentless dedication and precision, by meticulously developing advanced applications, using innovative approaches to tackle modern-day challenges. They focus on:
- Cybersecurity: Driven by their profound understanding of the digital realm, AIPSS champions 'Secured' solutions. Leveraging their deep expertise in cybersecurity, they emphasize paramount safety, ensuring each endeavor is robustly fortified against potential threats, thereby protecting invaluable data and ensuring trust.
- Innovation: Innovative approaches harnessing the latest technologies to revolutionize traditional systems and drive the future of digital solutions.
- Analysis: Their deep understanding of the digital realm empowers their analysis, ensuring precise insights and informed decision-making for every project.
NGI Sargasso: Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet
NGI Sargasso promotes the developing of a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest Europe-United States and/or Europe-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, services and standards. We also aim to contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons, following to the NGI initiative values of openness, inclusivity and sustainability.
We have funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators with a total budget of €4.8 million in the following topics:
- Trust.
- Data sovereignty.
- Digital identity.
- Internet architecture & renovation.
- Decentralized technology.
- Interoperability & standardization.
- New internet technology.
The NGI Sargasso InnoConnect Hub
The InnoConnect Hub is NGI Sargasso’s collaborative space where we proudly present a series of strategic partnerships with leading Open Source organizations.
Our aim is to foster knowledge-sharing, and build a stronger network within the global tech community. In doing so, we commit to cross-disseminating important updates, trends, and developments across our respective platforms, while also seeking opportunities to co-host webinars and events. By converging our expertise and outreach, these alliances will open the door to innovative endeavors, ushering in a more inclusive and forward-thinking digital ecosystem.
Our members are: StandIC.eu, FORGING, CrabNebula, MyData, 2DXCEL, CO-INVESTIN, FIERCE, 6G-REFERENCE and the NGI-funded projects NGI Search, NGI Local for Local and NGI Enrichers.
NGI Sargasso Starts a Collaboration with 6G-REFERENCE, the EU Project Developing 6G Hardware Enablers for Cell Free Coherent Communications & Sensing
NGI Sargasso is proud to announce one new member of our InnoConnect Hub: 6G-REFERENCE, the European project developing 6G hardware enablers for cell free coherent communications and sensing in urban areas.
As usual, this collaboration has been signed through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in which NGI Sargasso, represented by our coordinator, European Science Foundation (ESF), and 6G-REFERENCE, represented by theirs, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), will provide visibility and promotion to the outreach activities of both projects around efforts and contributions to ICT Standards to the projects' extensive network of stakeholder communities and main digital channels and outlets. We can also cooperate on joint webinars or any other event of mutual interest to keep building a more digital Europe under the Next Generation Internet (NGI) values of trust, security and inclusion, with a human-centric approach.
6G-REFERENCE: Developing Integrated Circuit and Antenna Component Solutions and Deploying 6G Hardware Enablers
6G-REFERENCE envisions a future where urban areas are equipped with sustainable solutions that can cope with the ever-increasing traffic demands and population densification, while providing disruptive capabilities like the materialization of the internet of sense. 6G-REFERENCE will develop integrated circuit and antenna component solutions, including dynamic frequency filtering and modulated radiation, to enable efficient spectrum coexistence schemes. The project will also deploy practical hardware enablers in terms of low complexity, cost and power consumption that could end up constituting a reference design for future 6G-distributed radios.
Part of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), 6G-REFERENCE is formed by ten research and industrial partners from eight European countries coordinated by Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC): University of Twente, CEA Leti, imec, ETH Zürich, University of Birmingham, Ericsson, Anteral, AUSTRALO and ACP AG.
NGI Sargasso: Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet
NGI Sargasso promotes the developing of a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest Europe-United States and/or Europe-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, services and standards. We also aim to contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons, following to the NGI initiative values of openness, inclusivity and sustainability.
We have funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators with a total budget of €4.8 million in the following topics:
- Trust.
- Data sovereignty.
- Digital identity.
- Internet architecture & renovation.
- Decentralized technology.
- Interoperability & standardization.
- New internet technology.
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The NGI Sargasso InnoConnect Hub
The InnoConnect Hub is NGI Sargasso's collaborative space where we proudly present a series of strategic partnerships with leading Open Source organizations.
Our aim is to foster knowledge-sharing, and build a stronger network within the global tech community. In doing so, we commit to cross-disseminating important updates, trends, and developments across our respective platforms, while also seeking opportunities to co-host webinars and events. By converging our expertise and outreach, these alliances will open the door to innovative endeavors, ushering in a more inclusive and forward-thinking digital ecosystem.
Our members are: StandIC.eu, FORGING, CrabNebula, MyData, 2DXCEL, CO-INVESTIN, FIERCE, and the NGI-funded projects NGI Search, NGI Local for Local and NGI Enrichers.
The NGI Sargasso Consortium and Innovators Participate in the NGI Forum 2025 to Join Discussions on Digital Sovereignty
The NGI Sargasso consortium attended the NGI Forum 2025, celebrated on the 19th and 20th of June in the Albert Borschette Congress Center of Brussels, the Belgian capital, in an edition focused on Building an Open Internet Stack for European Digital Sovereignty through several insightful talks, panel discussions and success stories of beneficiaries funded by the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative around the need to build a stronger and more sovereign Europe in NGI terms.
The NGI Sargasso coordinator, European Science Foundation, was there, together with our partners Sploro, AUSTRALO and Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation, to join the discussions on Digital Sovereignty, network with the NGI ecosystem and meet some of our NGI Sargasso Innovators who joined this date.
NGI Sargasso attended the talks on Digital Sovereignty at the NGI Forum 2025 and networked with the NGI Community
The Next Generation Internet Forum, or NGI Forum 2025, kicked off with the NGI Commons workshop on "Digital Commons as tools for building Digital Sovereignty", moderated by Monique Calisti, from Martel Innovate, including an incredible lineup of experts tackling one of Europe's most critical challenges:
- Sean Bohan (OpenWallet Foundation) delivering the keynote on digital sovereignty.
- Panel discussion with Denis Roio (Dyne.org foundation), Pascal Steichen (Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity), and Karin Lammers (Independent Consultant).
The conversation highlighted how digital commons can serve as the foundation for Europe's technological independence while maintaining our values of openness and innovation.
A major moment at the NGI Forum 2025 occurred when Thibaut Kleiner, Director at DG CONNECT at the European Commission, delivered a keynote that's setting the strategic direction for Europe's digital future.
"We started the NGI community 10 years ago, the concept, and now next year we'll have projects still running. My message is that we are also at a stage where we need to move on. We need to build on what we have, and to go to the next stage. We want to go from communities to product, and that's why we introduced this concept of Open Internet Stack," said Thibaut Kleiner.
During the panel breaks, and since we consider key collaborating with the Next Generation Internet Community, we always take the opportunity during physical events to meet our stakeholders and sibling projects, to catch up on our activities and to find potential synergies to keep creating an Open Internet. At the NGI Forum 2025 in Brussels, we had the chance to meet with our colleagues from Open Web Search and NGI Search projects, with whom we started collaborative activities after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). In fact, some months ago, in October 2024, we took similar pictures with them at the Open Search Symposium 2024 (OSSYM24).
NGI Sargasso Innovators joined the NGI Forum 2025
Besides attending the inspiring talks, the NGI Sargasso consortium networked with some NGI Sargasso Innovators to learn more about the impactful work they’re doing to shape the future of the Internet.
We met Andrea D'Intino, Co-Founder at Forkbomb BV, partner leading the project DIDroom Uni Credentials, building a use case for digital identity and credentials that is interoperable for universities in Canada/USA and Europe, selected in our Open Call 4.
Benoît Maïsseu and François Chiron, from Werenode, proudly represented their NGI Sargasso-funded project from our Open Call 3 IoTPay, Internet of Things Payment System, aiming to build a secure and interoperable decentralized payment ecosystem for connected objects, reducing fraud, errors, and enhancing efficiency.
More about the NGI Forum 2025: Building an Open Internet Stack for European Digital Sovereignty
The NGI Forum 2025 is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. It brings together some of Europe’s top Internet innovators at work to build an Internet of Trust, empowering end-users with more choice and control over their data and digital identity.
The 2025 edition focused on the building of an Open Internet Stack as conducive to European digital sovereignty and users’ empowerment. It served as a key platform to bring together innovators, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders. The Forum provided an opportunity to reflect on major developments in digital sovereignty, open internet infrastructure, and digital commons, while fostering collaboration between diverse stakeholders shaping Europe’s digital future.
The aims of the NGI Forum 2025 were to:
- Promote the NGI vision and its latest advancements
- Engage key stakeholders in meaningful discussions on internet governance, digital innovation, and policy development
- Facilitate networking and collaboration among the NGI community, industry leaders, and policymakers
- Provide a space for knowledge-sharing on open-source development, trust technologies, and decentralized digital ecosystems
By bringing together experts and innovators, the Forum strengthened Europe’s position as a leader in digital innovation, ensuring that new technologies align with European values of openness, trust, and security, and at NGI Sargasso we feel very proud to contribute to this collective effort to build a free and democratic society!