A gathering inside the Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week, on the day when European digital policy turns its eyes toward the island.

ReFLOSS EU 101.CY — the other Cyprus tech event

An unconference for conscientious and democratically-grounded tech policy — in Cyprus and beyond.

Monday, 15 June 2026. Nicosia, venue to be announced. An open space gathered from 10:30 until 18:00, in the format of participant-led sessions and a potluck table at midday.

An invitation

ReFLOSS EU 101.CY is an invitation to come together in a moment of European digital policy visibility. The current landscape increasingly focuses on cybersecurity, AI development, and national or EU-first digital sovereignty metrics — and in doing so, risks overlooking the deeper questions that shape our collective technological futures.

How do we make decisions about our technological future in a way that is inclusive, transparent, and human-centered rather than institutional? What kind of digital futures are we building? And how do we address the systemic pressures — lobbying, institutional inertia, internal fragmentation — that continue to challenge the FLOSS and digital commons ecosystems from within?

On June 15th 2026, as Cyprus and Nicosia become the setting of European Digital Policy, we pull threads together and invite individuals and communities that believe in open and freedom-respecting technologies to gather and coordinate in a spirit of informal productivity.

What we centre

Digital rights

Protection of fundamental freedoms in digital space — from the Right to Repair to the Right to live Offline.

Digital sovereignty

Understood as public capacity rather than control. Capability, not gatekeeping.

The digital commons

A shared infrastructure of care and governance. Free, fair, and participatory.

Public Money? Public Code.

FLOSS in public institutions, schools, and cultural spaces — mapping obstacles and opportunities.

An initial programme

10:30Gathering
11:00Kick-off
11:00 – 11:30Session planning
11:30 – 13:30Parallel sessions
13:30 – 15:00Potluck lunch
15:00 – 16:30Parallel sessions
16:30Outcomes
18:00End of day, social to follow

Sessions are proposed and shaped by the people in the room — spontaneity, relevance, co-ownership of the agenda.

Session seeds

Connecting FLOSS advocates across Cyprus academia — toward a next-level (Un)conference on Tech Policy in Education.
Co-writing an Open Letter on democratic processes in tech procurement.
Co-writing an Open Letter on the Age Verification Pilot debates.
Reflecting on the Digital Sovereignty Report.
Putting Open Source & Digital Rights on the local Civil Society radar.
Addressing Digital Coercion — the Right to live Offline.
Digital ID & Digital Euro (with epicenter.works).

Who we call together

FLOSS developers, educators, researchers, creatives, community organisers; people interested in co-creating ethical digital policy and resilient community tech; practitioners and policy-makers looking to move toward grounded, implementable strategies for digital justice.

Locally

Ubuntu.cy ELLAK Cyprus hack66 Hackerspace Limassol Cyprus Pirate movement 101.cy NeMe.org UCY & CUT Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation & Tech Policy

Internationally

Freedom not FearBE EDRiBE homo digitalisGR digitalcourageDE

Care for the commons

As part of our commitment to a community-conscious and low-waste event, please bring a reusable cup or bottle. Online and offline — let's care for the commons.