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Technological sovereignty and women in science
Diana Franco Eguren 2023ko otsailaren 09a

We live in strange times and are more informed than ever. We know what the impact of the war in Ukraine is on the energy supply. And their influence on the world. Also the conflict between China and the United States by chips in Taiwan to seize the power of the direction of global digital transformation. The infrastructure is creating a complex rhizomes, each on its own, without paying much attention to what is left out.

Europe wants to maintain its strength in the midst of these giants, and it seems that it has taken the path of technological sovereignty. One action for its promotion is related to chip manufacturing measures, which have become a resource of human and social orientation.

In this reality, we're reading and listening to a lot of words around ARM chips, how many hardware developers are working with this technology to design their own chips. It looks like these chips have a lot of advantages, but just like free software, I suspect that in this transformation, free hardware has a lot to say. In short, when knowledge is shared, it can be created by more people from this knowledge.

Behind the ARM chips are many people (nobody creates anything), but the one who created the heart of the architecture of this chip is Shophie Mari Wilson, based on the architecture RISK (Reduced Instruction Set Computer=Computer with Few Command Teams). That is, Sohphie, with few orders, created a simpler and more effective chip. In 2012, the chip was implanted in 95% of mobile phones.

Currently, on the road to technological sovereignty, V-RISK free hardware chips, inspired by the ARM model, seem to be an important actor. Sovereignty and open knowledge are examples to understand that relations between peoples can be promoted in a cooperative way than in oppression.