Sovereignty. In the Gulf
Gulf 2026
There is something fascinating happening in the Gulf. The ambition is enormous.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region are investing heavily in digital infrastructure, cloud computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and digital government. Technology is not treated simply as another IT budget line. It has become part of a much broader economic and national transformation.
And sovereignty has naturally become part of that conversation. It is not difficult to understand why.
The Gulf has spent decades building an economy deeply connected to the outside world. Its digital economy is no different. Global technology companies have brought infrastructure, platforms, expertise and investment into the region, and the availability of local cloud regions has made it possible to run increasingly important workloads close to where the organisations and their customers actually are.
Reality has always a habit of making these discussions rather less theoretical. And the ...
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