Sovereign Tech Agency

According to the Federal budget of Germany plan, the program aims to promote and secure open-source foundational technologies.^[3] It intends to make the open-source ecosystem more resilient against external attacks, thereby enhancing cybersecurity and resilience across the German economy. This initiative fulfills a demand from the coalition government.^[4] This is also an approach to the classic free-rider problem faced by many open source projects^[5].

The funding is described as time-limited and targeted at specific challenges or security vulnerabilities.^[6][7]

In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million Euros,^[8] which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and is expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The executive team consists of:

• Adriana Groh (co-CEO), previously from the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund^[9]
• Luisa von Beust (co-CEO), previously at several commercial organizations
• Fiona Krakenbürger (CTO), previously worked at the Open Technology Fund^[10][11]

As of July 2023, the following projects received funding:^[8][12]

• Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM)^[13]
• cURL: 97,500 Euro
• Drupal: 250,000 Euro^[14]
• The Eclipse Foundation: 515,000 Euro^[15]
• FFmpeg: 157,580 Euro^[16][17]
• Fortran Package Manager:^[18] 182,930 Euro
• FreeBSD: 686,400 Euro ^[19]
• GNOME 1 million Euro ^[20][21][22]
• GopenPGP/OpenPGP.js: 176,955.16 Euro
• OpenBGPd: 111,000 Euro
• OpenBLAS: 52,600 Euro
• Investment in JavaScript, via OpenJS: 874,940 Euro ^[23][24][25]
• OpenMLS: 190,000 Euro
• OpenSSH: 200,000 Euro^[26]
• Prossimo, part of Internet Security Research Group: 143,672.90 Euro
• PHP: 205,000 Euro ^[27][28]
• RubyGems: 195,000 Euro
• Samba: 688,800 Euro ^[29]
• Sequoia PGP: 200,000 Euro
• WireGuard: 188,100 Euro
• Yocto Project: 759,000 Euro ^[30][31]

• NLnet
• Next Generation Internet
• Horizon 2020
• Horizon Europe