Sofía Aritz
Sofía is a programmer turned policy person. She has worked on projects with social impact, seeking solutions that promote personal digital autonomy - such as Munin, a winning project of YH4F 2024. Currently, she is working at the intersection of the technical and political aspects of software, helping build a fairer technological ecosystem.
Sofía is supporting the FSFE in its "Public Money? Public Code!" initiative, coordinating the FSFE's engagement with the Interoperable Europe ecosystem, and is part of the System Hackers - the group taking care of the low level infrastructure of the FSFE. Besides, she is studying a programme in Social Sciences at the VUB/UGent.
Session
What does a healthy digital infrastructure look like and how can communities know whether they are truly in control of the technologies they depend on? Join our "the Community Infrastructure Clinic: From Dependency to Digital Sovereignty" hands-on workshop, facilitated by Marta Andreoli and Sofía Aritz, to learn about Device Neutrality and why it is important for digital sovereignty.
Participants will become “digital infrastructure doctors” and work in small groups to diagnose diverse fictional community cases, using different tools and strategies for it. The aim is for them to develop a “treatment plan” by creating a digital infrastructure prescription: 5–7 principles for a healthy infrastructure using Free Software, open standards, interoperability, decentralised and/or self-hosted approaches and cooperative governance.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing digital dependencies and a set of questions they can apply when evaluating or designing Free Software and decentralised solutions for their own organisations and communities.