Writings on what makes Europe and the world tech
In the European context the term digital sovereignty is complicated. There are many parties to the discourse and they refer to different aspects when using the term. This post is the first, in a two part series, that aims to untangle it.
It does so by (re)introducing multiple terms within to name a sovereignty as related to the digital in accordance with the relevant tech stack.
Summer hits differently after almost a year of lockdown so hopefully these #discoveries make up for the 📻 silence in the past two weeks.
There are some links between the #discoveries below and the previous pieces on the geopolitics of home office, Web 3.0 digital economy and digital sovereignty history.
To measure progress by governments and companies towards digital sovereignty in the EU a clear metric has to be relied on. This is where the digital self determination index comes in.
That the following #discoveries draw from more than one region, made the short collection below very interesting. Without further ado:
This post focuses on the EU's technology (and science) sector where almost 73 million people are employed. The argument is that even after the pandemic, the home office modality – for an already remote-apt sector with skilled labor force and high economic output – will stay.
Unlike the medium length posts that zoom in one topic, the #discoveries series is a collection of recently stumbled upon stories where the common denominator is curiosity. Here comes the first one of these.
Instead of catching up with Web 2.0 economy and society, Europe could embrace Web 3.0 to gain geopolitical, economic and social benefits in its ongoing pursuit of digital sovereignty. Here's how this might work out.
This, living and constantly updated, post documents grassroots attempts of cultivating technology and data for the citizens' good from the 90's until now in different European cities.
Many companies in Europe owe some part of their product or idea's progress to the state – either in the form of an individual country's public sector (universities, research centres...etc.) or as an EU sponsored program or initiative.