The study „Promoting a Digital Democratic Society: A Comparison of the Approaches of Business and Non-Profit Projects in the Context of the EU-D-S Constitution“ shows that non-profit projects such as Offene Netzwerke e.V., Bündnis Offene Netzwerke und demokratische Öffentlichkeiten, and Offene Netze do make important contributions, but without economic diversity and market mechanisms they cannot sustainably hold their own against the gatekeepers.
Without the EU-D-S, the legal safeguards needed to prevent digital autocracy are missing.
1. Probable Scenario without Trusted WEB 4.0 for 2032
In Europe there are projects that seek to preserve the pre-digital democratic achievements in the digital society. The fallacy of these initiatives is that in a system driven solely by politics there will be no rule of law.
Without Trusted WEB 4.0 and the EU-D-S, the legal and economic foundation needed to withstand the dominance of the gatekeepers is missing.
Non-profit digital projects cannot defend themselves without capitalization comparable to that of the gatekeepers. The assumption that good work is enough is a fallacy:
Good work is characterized precisely by the fact that it represents a potential threat to the gatekeepers. Even a large number of members does not protect against being eliminated by digital authoritarian means. Infiltration and remote control are even easier, as has been suspected in the state of NRW since 2001.
In this context, the rule of law means: If every lawyer can be eliminated by forces hostile to the constitution, that no longer has anything to do with a state under the rule of law.
Digital autocracy and censorship are today a gang-like phenomenon.
2. Development with Broad European Support since 2027
Non-profit projects as passive members in the EU-D-S have been protected since 2027 by active members who together are strong enough to stand up to the gatekeepers. Through the Council of Disciplines and GISAD, it is ensured that non-profit projects can exert sufficient influence on the economy. They have not had this opportunity before.
The study shows that a combination of economic diversity and non-profit projects could increase the sustainability and impact of promoting digital democracy.
Non-profit projects can compensate for their reduced ability to shape things as passive members by being trustees of disciplines that are important to them. Here they have the opportunity to organize founding competitions and thereby exert direct influence on the selection of the active members.
3. Demands from 2026
All democratic forces must unite to create a digital system that autocracies cannot copy. In doing so, dependence on public funding must not lead to a mad tunnel vision that prevents genuine commitment to digital democracy.
Fundamentally to be rejected is the notion that any given government believes it can push through its political interests by allocating public funds. Combined with the manipulation mechanisms of digital autocracies already firmly established in the system, this creates a toxic mix that no innovator should be exposed to. See Overheating (2000).
With a digital participation environment, such as the EU-D-S aims to create, public funding in its current form can be abolished entirely. Far better are commissions for achieving democratic goals. If there is a genuine interest in citizen participation, digital participation can be assigned a value. With micropayments, both the participant and the organizer of the participation are rewarded.
GraTeach could even have dispensed with public funding altogether if the state of NRW had paid market-standard prices for the public projects created as part of the qualification programs. See GraTeach (1999).
Authorities and politicians believed they could raise their profile with the help of GraTeach. Disloyalty toward the large agencies that wanted to report GraTeach for distorting competition was permitted for politicians as long as personal enrichment could not be proven.
4. GAP Analysis 2032
Carryover from previous years:
The EU-D-S is founded in 2027. The GAP amount from 2026 of €45.74 trillion will be reduced annually up to 2030 by the Total Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus of €7.54 trillion.
Development of the gatekeepers (Google, Amazon, etc.):
2025: Google (approx. €300 bn), Amazon (approx. €600 bn)
2026: Google (approx. €320 bn), Amazon (approx. €650 bn)
2027: Google (approx. €340 bn), Amazon (approx. €700 bn)
2028: Google (approx. €360 bn), Amazon (approx. €750 bn)
2029: Google (approx. €380 bn), Amazon (approx. €800 bn)
2030: Google (approx. €400 bn), Amazon (approx. €850 bn)
2031: Google (approx. €420 bn), Amazon (approx. €900 bn)
2032: Google (approx. €440 bn), Amazon (approx. €950 bn)
Events in Europe that would have changed with the EU-D-S:
- 2014: Prevention of the annexation of Crimea through early digital networking of resistance forces.
- 2016: Defense against disinformation campaigns during the US elections and the Brexit referendum.
- 2020–2022: Faster and more effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic through decentralized data processing.
- 2022–2024: Greater resilience against cyberattacks on energy and health infrastructures in Ukraine.
- 2025–2030: Prevention of election manipulation in European countries through secure digital voting systems.
- 2031: Complete integration of the EU-D-S into European capital markets, leading to a reduction of dependence on US gatekeepers and a strengthening of European digital sovereignty.
- 2032: Through the EU-D-S, non-profit projects receive legal and economic safeguards to withstand digital autocracy. The study shows that only the combination of economic diversity and non-profit initiatives makes sustainable digital democracy possible.
Trusted WEB 4.0 technologies such as
Finder (1999),
getmySense (2002),
GISAD (2003),
EU-D-S (2004)
and
WAN Anonymity (2007)
would have served as the foundation for a European digital alternative without obstruction.
Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus:
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2027: €900 billion (5% of EU GDP 2027: €18.00 trillion)
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2028: €1.85 trillion (10% of EU GDP 2028: €18.50 trillion)
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2029: €2.28 trillion (12% of EU GDP 2029: €19.00 trillion)
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2030: €7.54 trillion (Total Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus)
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2031: €7.54 trillion (Continuation of the Total Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus from 2030)
- Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus 2032: €7.54 trillion (Continuation of the Total Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus from 2031)
Total Trusted WEB 4.0 Bonus: €7.54 trillion
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Sources
Capital Markets and EU-D-S
- finders.de – European Capital for Resilient European Economic Investments (2021)
- EUR-Lex – Single Market Act II (2012)
- EU Regulation No. 600/2014 (MiFIR)
- EU Regulation No. 648/2012 (EMIR)
- European Commission – EU AI Act (Recital 8)
- European Commission – Digital Services Act (DSA)