Rebecca BravoOct 27
Ben Werdmuller
I think this is cool: an index of countries based on how much self-sovereign, self-hosted digital technology they use. Are they in control of their own cloud services, or is their tech outsourced? https://dsi.nextcloud.com/
Digital Sovereignty Index

Discover the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a global snapshot of visible, self-hosted infrastructure. Is your country digitally autonomous.

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Show threadMartynOct 21
@ben I'm intrigued, it seems like they are entirely basing sovereignty based on tools and so counting an instance of rocketchat installed in say google's frankfurt region as "sovereign" which..... um.....nope. I just wrote a bit about this issue on my blog coincidentally https://musings.martyn.berlin/lets-talk-about-eu-sovereignty
Let’s talk about EU Sovereignty

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Show threadThomas Guyot-SionnestOct 22

@ben Are they just ranking countries on the ratio of server/population?

I would expect Canada to be much worse. I suspect a fair share of Canada's IT infra serves US companies... And the count of servers is probably meaningless, for example a country with centralized self-hosted platforms may have a much smaller footprint than one where it's FFA across all govt instances, reducing its score instead of increasing it.

Show threadRobin DaughertyOct 22
@ben a cool idea but methodology so flawed it’s misleading unfortunately. The EU is supposed to be single market, right? It seems fair to count a German hosting provider as “sovereign” for the Netherlands. Conversely, German government services hosted on a US provider’s data center located in Germany should not, at all. It feels counterproductive even.