Neil Brown4d ago

New blogpost:

"Musings on 'digital sovereignty'"

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts, before I forgot them.

The more I think about it, the less clear the whole thing seems...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/musings-on-digital-sovereignty/

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Musings on 'digital sovereignty'

Some initial, probably flawed, thoughts on the notion of digital sovereignty

Show threadTom Stoneham

@neil FWIW in my day job I have identified 9 different models of 'digital sovereignty' for governments (of which only one is properly called that). Ther emay be a preprint ready in due course.

But for an example of a government switching to the state-level version of self-hosting, there is France (https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en). Schleswig-Holstein, teh Austrian Army and one Danish Ministry (https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/its-the-year-of-linux-at-least-for-denmark-heres-why-the-countrys-government-is-dumping-windows-and-office-365) have ditched MSOffice for LibreOffice. (1/2)

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Show threadTom Stoneham3d ago
@neil A common pattern in these European civil service examples is that they seem to struggle with the move from Windows to Linux. That may be easier done through regular end-user hardware updates.