UN Open Source Week highlights global push for digital sovereignty through open source tech
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Steven Vaughan-Nichols
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At the United Nations Open Source Week, digital sovereignty emerged as a central theme, with ministers and technologists from countries including Germany, Ireland, Morocco, and Tanzania advocating for open source, interoperability, and open AI as essential for national control over critical digital systems. The consensus is that digital sovereignty is no longer about building isolated national tech stacks but about owning data and infrastructure, moving away from reliance on proprietary American cloud giants.
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· 3 pulledDigital sovereignty is no longer about building isolated national tech stacks but about owning data and infrastructure and the ability to control one's digital destiny.
Open source is now core critical infrastructure and proprietary American companies can't be trusted.
Ministers and technologists from Germany to Ireland to Morocco to Tanzania and many more besides laid out how open source, interoperability, and open AI are becoming conditions for national control over critical digital systems.
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