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Understand Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty combines control over data and technology with the ability to make informed decisions. Start with a clear scope: which service supports which process, what data does it process, and how important is it to your operations?
The fundamentals explain how to assess dependencies and establish digital sovereignty management in your organisation.
Guidance for Businesses and Public Authorities
Businesses connect digital sovereignty with commercial flexibility. Public authorities need solutions they can shape over the long term and viable procurement and operating models. These two articles identify relevant starting points.
Get an overview with 20 questions
The general checklist examines dependencies, data, technology and collaboration across the organisation. It complements the detailed guide for assessing an individual provider.
Identify provider dependencies
Dependencies arise through software, data formats, interfaces and contracts. Specialist knowledge, the technical control plane and other service providers can also make switching difficult.
What matters is whether you understand your dependencies and can actually act when circumstances change.
Prepare to switch providers
A data export is a starting point. A successful switch also requires portable configurations, a suitable target environment, available expertise and a tested process.
The guide helps you assess effort, costs, operational interruptions and support from the current provider.
Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Data location, access rights, portability and operations belong in the same decision. The cloud article explains which information and practical tests matter.
Evaluate evidence correctly
A provider’s statement, a contractual commitment and an independent audit report carry different evidential weight. Check which specific claim is substantiated and whether the legal entity, service, region and period match your decision.
A claim is not evidence. Even valid evidence does not automatically answer every question your organisation has.
Address the relevant requirements
Laws, standards and audit reports serve different purposes. Depending on their scope, DORA, NIS2, the BSIG and the Data Act impose specific obligations. The Cloud Sovereignty Framework, BSI C5 and ISO/IEC 27001 provide further reference points for assessment.
The guide explains these distinctions and links to the original sources.
From Assessment to Implementation
An identified dependency does not necessarily call for a change of provider. Better contractual provisions, regular exports or stronger in-house expertise may be the right next step.
Record the rationale for your decision, assign owners and review the effects of your actions.
Start with a specific case
Choose an important service or provider. Define the scope, collect evidence and assess the consequences of your dependencies. Our free guide supports you with 25 questions and practical working templates.