Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be
The concept of digital sovereignty has spread across government policy, corporate marketing, and international development debates, with officials and companies alike invoking it to justify control over cloud infrastructure, data flows, and communications systems. A growing argument holds that the term could be reclaimed to mean something more user-centered: open, resilient systems that give ordinary people more genuine control.
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