Digital Sovereignty at Risk - Opportunities for Intervention
summary
European public sector programs prioritize concrete interventions: a Sovereign Tech Fund lists 195 technologies and has spent about €15M to support 40 projects funded, a government-backed OpenCode platform hosts thousands of production-ready OSS projects and over 5,000 uses, and a new German government cloud contract creates a centrally consumable multicloud service. Policy work embeds three abilities — ability to switch, design, influence — into procurement, funding, and economic viability analyses to preserve where data sits, who controls stacks, and which suppliers governments can choose.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Digital sovereignty challenges
- 1:49Defining digital sovereignty
- 3:56Guiding principles for sovereignty
- 5:19Government sovereignty initiatives
- 6:01Sovereign Tech Fund investments
- 7:08Open Code platform
- 8:11Government cloud strategy
- 9:17Procurement policies for sovereignty
- 10:00Funding sovereignty solutions
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