How FR and DE are developing their digital sovereignty
summary
France and Germany combine existing projects openDesk / La Suite numérique and run paired development sprints where each challenge invests 100 person-days to build shared components. They deliver a Notion‑style collaborative editor with SSO across FR/DE, PDF/DOCX export, version history, offline mode and basic AI features (realtime transcription and summaries), now in production and rolling out to the Netherlands. Plans use an EDIC legal vehicle with founding members FR DE NL and Digital Europe matching funds to fund upstream libraries and scale the model.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to digital sovereignty
- 3:11France and Germany collaboration start
- 8:55First 100-day challenge projects
- 10:23Demo of collaborative editing tool
- 16:58Scaling with EDIC consortium
- 21:41Future of digital commons funding
- 24:57Private sector involvement
- 28:09Q&A and closing remarks
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