European Commission: NGI Taler 7th Open Call Privacy-preserving digital payments

NGI Taler 7th Open Call Privacy-preserving digital payments. Short description NGI TALER is a project funded by the European Commission and the Swiss State to roll out a new electronic payment system that benefits everyone: people, merchants, banks, financial authorities, auditors and anti-corruption researchers. The project doesn’t start from scratch, but builds on the strong foundations of GNU Taler — the privacy-preserving digital payment system developed by the GNU community and Taler Systems SA. We invite your contributions to help reshape the state of play of digital payment systems, and to help create an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all. Of course you can contribute exciting new capabilities to GNU Taler itself, build auxiliary tools or work on user experience, but you could also developing integrations into FOSS applications and open standards (enabling P2P micropayments in for instance an instant messenger, open social media platform or video conferencing tool), or develop improvements to infrastructure components like merchant backends. Target participants The call is open to SMEs, academics, public sector, non-profits, communities and individuals. Outcomes must be open: all scientific outcomes must be published as open access, and any software and hardware must be published under a recognised open...