ownCloud Vision & Mission
Kiteworks ownCloud: Empowering Sovereign, Transparent Collaboration.
Discover the Kiteworks vision and mission for ownCloud, a leading open-source collaboration platform ensuring digital sovereignty and trust. Learn how we empower secure, transparent partnerships.
Vision
To create a world where collaboration is federated, sovereign, and transparent — empowering organizations everywhere to work together without sacrificing privacy, control, or trust.
At Kiteworks, we envision ownCloud as the digital backbone of technological sovereignty in Europe and beyond, ensuring that innovation, knowledge, and data remain in the hands of the people and institutions that create them.
We see open source as the foundation of a social contract — a commitment that goes beyond commerce — one that we sustain through commercial investment. Innovation must be shared. Trust must be earned through transparency. Technology must serve the greater good, not just commercial interests.
Mission
Kiteworks’ mission is to deliver ownCloud as the most permissive and interoperable collaboration platform available. Built on open standards, developed in the open, and sustained through community and partnership, we commit to:
- Enabling cross-organizational collaboration without lock-in.
- Championing digital sovereignty by design.
- Building trust through transparency and open governance.
- Driving sustainable innovation for the greater good.
Together with our community and under the stewardship of Kiteworks, we will ensure that ownCloud remains not just software, but a living, growing digital commons — a platform that can scale to millions of users, integrate seamlessly into diverse IT environments, and evolve through community collaboration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kiteworks envisions ownCloud as the digital backbone of technological sovereignty in Europe and beyond, ensuring that innovation, knowledge, and data remain in the hands of the people and institutions that create them.
Kiteworks sees open source as the foundation of a social contract, a commitment beyond commerce, sustained through commercial investment. They believe innovation must be shared, trust must be earned through transparency, and technology must serve the greater good.
Kiteworks’ mission is to deliver ownCloud as the most permissive and interoperable collaboration platform, built on open standards, developed openly, and sustained through community and partnership, focusing on cross-organizational collaboration, digital sovereignty, transparency, and sustainable innovation.
Kiteworks, together with its community, aims to ensure ownCloud remains a living, growing digital commons that can scale to millions of users, integrate seamlessly into diverse IT environments, and evolve through community collaboration.