Digital sovereignty: Why open infrastructure matters
summary
Argues that “digital sovereignty” is more than local operation of proprietary clouds and gives a concrete four layers: legal, freedom of choice, open source technology, operational competence taxonomy; cites the surprising claim that open source code alone is insufficient without open communities and open operations and points to an openoperations.org manifesto. Describes the SWING Cloud Stack reference implementation (v3 released September), a 200‑member ecosystem, upstream work with OpenStack/CNCF/Linux Foundation, and funded development through end of 2024.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Digital sovereignty intro
- 1:50Defining digital sovereignty
- 3:38Four dimensions
- 5:22Legal compliance insufficient
- 6:27Open source foundation
- 7:09Beyond open source
- 8:15Need for operational knowledge
- 10:25Four layers summary
- 11:50Debunking sovereignty hype
- 12:35Swiss Cloud Stack overview
- 15:50Call to action
- 16:10Q&A
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