Munich Makes Digital Sovereignty Measurable With Its Own Score
alternative_right writes: The city of Munich has developed its own measurement instrument to assess the digital sovereignty of its IT infrastructure. The so-called Digital Sovereignty Score (SDS) visually resembles the Nutri-Score and identifies IT systems based on their independence from individual providers and ‘foreign’ legal spheres. The Technical … ⌘ Read more
EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push
The EU “has switched on parts of its homegrown secure satellite communications network for the first time,” reports Bloomberg, calling it part of a €10.6 billion push to “wean itself off US support amid growing tensions.”
SpaceNews notes the new government program GOVSATCOM pools capacity from eight already on-oribit satellites from France, Spain, It … ⌘ Read more
Repeat after me: AWS is no Euro Cloud or provides Digital Sovereignty, no matter what “local zone” you use.
@pluralistic@pluralistic summing up my thoughts on where the current #DigitalSovereignty conversation is leading us towards:
I’m sorry. I know that when we talk about “digital sovereignty,” we’re obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
I don’t have any advice for how to do that. I’m sorry!
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Open Rights Group is warning politicians that the UK is leaning far too heavily on US tech companies to run critical systems, and wants the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill to force a rethink.
The digital rights outfit says the bill, which is due to receive its second reading in the House … ⌘ Read more
Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing ‘Digital Sovereignty’
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe’s pursuit of “digital sovereignty”:
The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European organizations in a precarious position, as it directly clashes with … ⌘ Read more
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like the CLOUD Act. “I need a so … ⌘ Read more
How bad was the “Digital Sovereignty Summit”?
Heise explains: https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-of-the-Digital-Sovereignty-Summit-Open-Source-Gets-Scolded-11084765.html
But I’ll highlight one thing - the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, published and signed there, has this ridiculous sentence:
“Open-source solutions can play an important role enhancing digital sovereignty, provided they meet high cybersecurity standards and are complemented by reliable proprietary technologies where appropriate.”
To finish, we have #Macron. #Sovereignty? Nah, what he wants is:
With a straight face, he recommends these anti-sovereingty measures as things that somehow will be good for our tech sovereignty….
At least he puts emphasis on enforcing #DMA, and make sure that hyperscalers comply with it.
He also defends EU-first public procurement, but his examples are SAP and Mistral (and their non-interoperable solutions)…
Finally, he things it is important to speed up AI adoption, going as far as saying that next year instead of a digital sovereignty summit we’ll have an AI summit…
No, not finally! To finish, he wants to “protect the children”! We all know where that one leads…
The afternoon didn’t start better: we got a talk about the EUDI, with the implied idea that an “European ID” is automatically an example of digital sovereignty, when in fact what is being implemented isn’t.
I could go further into it, but instead I’ll leave here a link to the comment I was impelled to write on the EUDI project after the presentation:
The #EUDI panel was followed by Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark. The tldr; of her keynote - which had two points of note: 1) “I support AI gigafactories” (because all that is shiny and new is something we should invest in), and “innovation is sovereignty” which is her way of saying that she wants to use the sovereignty topic not to talk about sovereignty but as an excuse to promote “innovation” - in that ideology brand that supports the idea that in order to innovate more we need to simplify and de-regulate…
I tuned into the “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” stream hoping to listen about #DigitalSovereignty and all I got was a morning on how we for some reason to have more #AI, better #AI, (less regulation so we can have) faster #AI, and #AI everywhere.
Somehow, I’m not convinced. Perhaps I will in the afternoon, when they hopefully actually talk about digital sovereignty…
Germany To Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei will be excluded from the country’s future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more digital sovereignty. From a report: “We have decided within the government that everywhere it’s possible we’ll replace components, for example in the 5G network, wit … ⌘ Read more
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 31. ⌘ Read more
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 31. ⌘ Read more
NSN leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 29. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update
October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.
The vote was pulled at the last minute.
Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again
After twenty-five years, XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is still here. Mature, proven, modular, and standardized, it may well be the most solid foundation available today to build the future of messaging.
And now, XMPP is more relevant than ever: its resurgence is driven by European digital sovereignty efforts, renewed focus on interoperabil … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Empowering Digital Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform
In today’s interconnected world, digital sovereignty has become increasingly important for individuals and organizations seeking to maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and technologies. Openfire, an open-source, real-time collaboration (RTC) server that uses the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence … ⌘ Read more
King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats ⌘ Read more
https://mediascope.group/europe-needs-its-own-social-media-platforms-to-safeguard-sovereignty/ ⌘ Read more
What Chinese President Xi Jinping told Hong Kong in 2017 and key messages he can be expected to deliver on 25th anniversary of handover
In 2017, Xi delivered a tough but tempered message warning of red lines but also speaking of opportunities, and analysts expect him to delve again into sovereignty, national resilience and economic integration. ⌘ Read more
Xi Jinping to attend 25th anniversary celebrations of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty and swearing-in of new city leader John Lee
President Xi Jinping will officiate the event to mark quarter-century of Chinese sovereignty over city and swearing-in of new city leader. ⌘ Read more
Open innovation will be the winning strategy for digital sovereignty and human progress in the new decade ⌘ Read more…
Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/