Expert perspectives on European digital sovereignty, open-source strategy, and breaking free from US tech dependency.
AI & Ethics
The infrastructure argument for digital sovereignty is over. The next front is the AI layer, and it is hardening faster than the cloud ever did. When the vendor that could not guarantee French data to the French Senate becomes the loudest seller of sovereignty, buying the label is not progress. It is the opposite.
Digital Sovereignty
Europe largest industrial company is migrating its most critical systems off AWS and onto a French provider, explicitly to keep them beyond the reach of foreign extraterritorial law. Read the detail and a playbook appears: classify by consequence, procure on jurisdiction, keep your options, move the tier that matters.
AI & Ethics
Every AI policy now leans on one sentence: a human reviews the output. In practice that often means a person glances at something plausible and clicks approve. That is ceremony, not review. Real review has to be designed, and the methods auditors have trusted for a century transfer directly.
Digital Sovereignty
A Microsoft executive told the French Senate it could not guarantee French public data would stay beyond American reach. That one answer collapsed a comfortable assumption held across Europe and Britain: that data residing in Europe is governed by Europe. Residency is geography. Sovereignty is jurisdiction.
AI & Ethics
AI-first inverts the old bargain: instead of the human adapting to the system, the system adapts to the human. The vision is compelling, but four hard questions sit inside it, and organisations that adopt the vision without answering them will get the failure modes rather than the prize.
Digital Sovereignty
Cornwall is usually described as the far end of the line. But map the physical infrastructure a modern country actually runs on, the cables, the energy, the minerals, the compute, and the county sits unusually close to the centre. Having that infrastructure on your soil is not the same as controlling it.
AI & Ethics
AI governance is not a compliance question, it is a strategic one. The most boring document in the building is the one that decides whether the promised productivity gift lands in better work, better thinking, or an earlier finish.
Digital Sovereignty
Microsoft has put both the Claude and GPT models into the same Microsoft 365 Copilot tenant. For European customers that means engaging two US AI providers through one US cloud vendor, with the Claude integration sitting outside the EU Data Boundary.
AI & Ethics
AI vendor adoption is happening faster than the strategies written to handle it. The questions that matter at executive level are not which vendor, but data classification, jurisdiction, governance, and how to manage a landscape that changes faster than annual planning cycles.
IT Strategy
Every IT leadership team is arguing about which AI engine to use. It is the wrong argument. The engine is a small part of the picture; the hard parts are data classification, oversharing, jurisdiction, and governance.
Cyber Security
You cannot audit yourself, for the same reason a barrister cannot sit on the jury for their own case. A good auditor walks in cold, asks you to show rather than tell, and the gap between what you believe is true and what you can evidence is the most useful gap in IT.
Cyber Security
We spent a decade hardening identity, then a developer pastes a stored procedure full of customer emails into ChatGPT. Every control fired correctly, and the data still left the building. The boundary that matters is no longer the firewall; it is the prompt box.
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