Digital Sovereignty Notes

Notes on digital sovereignty.

Sovereignty Stories

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools, Simon Sharwood, June 2025: Lyon: au revoir Microsoft.
Danish Precedent Fuels German State’s Open‑Source Shift, ArabianPost, 2025: Schleswig‑Holstein: auf weidersehen Microsoft
Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, ZD Net, June 2025: Denmark: farvel Microsoft?
We have left the cloud, David Heinemeier Hansson, June 2025: HEY and Bootcamp moving to own hardware.

Microsoft abruptly cuts services to Chinese university, genomics firm, Wency Chen, April 2025: Microsoft cutting service in China.
Criminal Court: Microsoft's email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty, Stefan Krempl, heise online, May 2025
US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump, Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters, Dec 2025: Trump is threatening international organization
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty, Paul Kunert, The Register, July 2025: Microsoft says it "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France - and by implication the wider European Union
Microsoft Admits: US Law Supersedes Canadian Sovereignty, Alexander Rudolph, Canadian Cyber in Context, July 2025: Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty

EuroStack: European Industrial Policy initiative to build and adopt a suite of digital infrastructures.
Tech Sovereignty Catalogue: List of European tech products.

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech, bert hubert, May 2025: Open source world is missing a lot of business things.
Sovereignty-washing, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, June 2025: Big tech pretending to deliver sovereignty, where there is none.