Digital Sovereignty
Building digital sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is the agency and capacity of any organisation to make intelligent, informed choices to shape its digital future by design. To achieve that, governments must examine how they architect and manage their critical layers.
Sovereignty isn’t just about building local data centres, in-shoring supply chains, or adding layers of regulation. It’s about having the agency and capability to make strategic choices.
Thoughts on ‘The Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty: Contested Networks, Territories and Self-determination’ (Elgar, 2026)
19 August 2026Products, platforms, protocols: 3 steps to digital sovereignty
25 March 2026Building digital sovereignty: Reflections from FWD50 PD Day
11 February 2026Building your company’s digital sovereignty
25 November 2025DigitalScotland 2025: Let's talk about the messy work of real digital delivery
12 November 2025The UK needs to understand digital sovereignty as we enter the AI era
17 September 2025The digital sovereignty dialogue: from definition to the questions that matter
11 September 2025In this special edition episode of This Week in Global Development, Devex's Alan Robbins spoke to PD's Lauren Kahn and Mike Bracken CBE. Recorded at Devex Impact House during the UN General Assembly, in September 2026, they unpack the urgent need for emerging economies to transition from passive "tech-takers" to active "tech-makers" by reclaiming digital sovereignty.