Digital sovereignty through open source – Europe's strategic opportunity
summary
Europe controls 15% of the cloud market while US firms hold about 70%, and national responses range from France moving desktops to Linux to Germany building a Deutschland stack with reference implementations, an OpenDesk catalog and a sovereign tech fund. Sweden lacks coordination and strategy despite local projects; an e‑service platform is now used by 200 municipalities and is effectively vendor‑locked to Visma. Emerging tools and consortia include EDIC, sovereign cloud certifications and national LLM investments.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:20Digital dependency crisis
- 3:51Risks of tech dependencies
- 6:41Full-stack sovereignty challenge
- 8:46Strategic autonomy via open source
- 10:16Accountant syndrome dilemma
- 12:02Policy levers for open source
- 14:31Emerging sovereignty initiatives
- 16:56Sustainable open source ecosystems
- 19:23Investing in tech sovereignty
- 21:51Sweden’s gaps and lessons
- 23:38Resilience over isolation
- 26:50Cultural barriers
- 27:54Global open source security
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