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"Companies spanning areas including cloud, telecoms, defence, along with several regional business and startup associations, have put their names to the letter — which was sent to the Commission on Sunday — urging the bloc to switch its tech strategy onto a quasi-war footing by committing to support “sovereign digital infrastructure.”

The plan pushes for reducing reliance on foreign-owned Big Tech by actively fostering development of a so-called “Euro stack.” The European digital infrastructure pitch is not coming out of thin air — a Euro Stack paper written by, among others, the competition economist Cristina Caffarra was published in January fleshing out the strategy in some detail.

There has also been, over the last half year or so, a smattering of conference chatter turning over the potential for enterprising Europeans to seize a geopolitically fraught moment to press the case for the EU to adopt a digital industrial strategy that’s squarely focused on favoring local innovation."

techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/euro

TechCrunch · European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local | TechCrunchA broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for "radical action" from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance

At the AI Action Summit, Europe reaffirmed its commitment to sovereign AI—but open #digitalinfrastructure, the foundation on which AI innovation is being built, was largely overlooked. In a discussion with Dr. Magnus Sahlgren, Dr. Alexander Ilic, Dr. Marta Villegas, Prof. Petri Myllymäki, Brandon Jackson and Dr. Joshua Tan, #SovereignTechAgency CEO Adriana Groh reminded those gathered that without strong investment in open source, AI risks being controlled by a few dominant players. 1/2

📑 New paper on the evolution of “Digital Public Infrastructure".

Mila T Samdub traces how DPI has transformed globally from openness (2012-2020) through consolidation (2020-2024) to localization.

This research calls for moving beyond one-size-fits-all approaches toward locally-adapted solutions.

Read how different regions are reimagining digital public infrastructure: openfuture.eu/publication/digi

#DPI #DigitalInfrastructure #PublicTech