Open Humanity: Building Ethical Deep Tech for Accessibility and Dignity in Europe

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Europe today hosts one of the world’s most vibrant open source ecosystems. As artificial intelligence, robotics, and emerging technologies redefine mobility, communication, and human autonomy, a new priority emerges: making technological progress truly human-centered.

We are therefore launching a European initiative to create an ethical and open source platform dedicated to deep tech for people with disabilities, elderly citizens, and individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease. This platform will serve as a digital common good — transparent, interoperable, and collectively governed according to the principles of the Linux Foundation and free software ethics.

Technically, it will rely on an open stack — from auditable firmware to explainable AI models — aligned with European standards for security, privacy, and digital sovereignty.
Our goals are threefold:

to advance applied research in perception, cognition, and assistive robotics,

to build and maintain open software components adaptable to users’ medical or functional needs,

and to engage developers, researchers, and social enterprises in an ethical governance model built on transparency and non-exclusion.

Rooted in the European regulatory and cultural framework — GDPR, AI Act, and accessibility directives — this initiative aims to prove that radical innovation can coexist with humanism, and that artificial intelligence can serve social justice.