Digital sovereignty has become Europe’s top priority — here's how open source is helping pave the way
Digital sovereignty in Europe has grown from a simple talking point into a strategic priority, and open source software (OSS) is perceived as the continent's way of achieving that goal. However, there is no sovereignty without security.
At the recent Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe, the Foundation’s Madalin Neag and Mirko Boehm argued that many of Europe's seemingly separate technology initiatives - from NIS2 and DORA to the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its broader Tech Sovereignty agenda, all ultimately converge on solving one problem: securing the software supply chains underpinning Europe's economy.
The global technology race is currently being led by two superpowers - the United States, and China. The US has the hyperscalers, Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, Microsoftand mind-numbing amounts of capital flowing into AI infrastructure. China, on the other hand, has its own sprawling Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, domestic chip ambitions, and companies such as...
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