Digital Sovereignty and Open Source – Shaping a European answer to geopolitical instabilities

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The next Trump administration will increase geopolitical instabilities, which Europe needs to be prepared for. As Germany’s Center for Digital Sovereignty of the Public Sector, we at ZenDiS strive to enable and empower the German public IT for these upcoming threats.
We focus on dissolving existing technological dependencies by equipping the public sector with Open Source alternatives and the capabilities to apply them successfully.
But digital sovereignty does not end at our national borders. Instead, we can only be successful in a joint European endeavor.
In my keynote, I’ll provide our blueprint for setting up national OSPOs, share our experiences in cross-national collaboration, and invite to European-level collaboration.