Putting data under control of citizens and businesses
After two action-packed years, it’s time to sunset the Data Sovereignty Now campaign. Looking back Following the announcement of the EU Data Strategy of 2019, there was a strong need to explore what it would actually mean in practice. This led to the formation of our influential Data Sovereignty Now (DSN) community in September 2020. Each…
Earlier this week, four EU leaders issued a strong call to the European Commission to make Europe ‘digitally sovereign’ as soon as possible. The Data Sovereignty Now (DSN) coalition agrees with these EU leaders that the European Commission needs to do more and move faster to achieve digital sovereignty. The letter, which was signed by the German…
Over the last two decades the internet has gradually balkanized into myriad centralized spaces where either big tech or authoritarian state actors have become powerful gatekeepers. As a consequence, the project of an open global internet is jeopardized. It is against this backdrop that Europe is currently in the process of developing a data and AI strategy which should restore some of its competitiveness and sovereignty. Here we take a closer look at some of these policies and speculate on future opportunities for…