Meeting the challenge of digital sovereignty amid uncertain times

This article discusses growing concerns around digital sovereignty as organisations move data and IP to the cloud and adopt AI, highlighting risks from geopolitical events, extra-territorial data access, and the possibility of being cut off or having data appropriated. Juergen Reiner outlines a three-layer approach—legal, operational, and data/technology—urging assessments of sovereign maturity and use of sovereign cloud providers, open-source tools, and controlled language models to maintain control over critical data and IP while enabling innovation.