Six years ago we ran a pilot project with the City of Ghent to explore what it would be like for a municipality to provide every citizen with their own place on the web at a domain they (the citizen) owned and controlled.

We prototyped. Everyone loved it. And then? Our budget was cancelled when a conservative local government got elected.

We need long-term funding that’s not privy to the whims of the shifting political winds.

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