Around the world, discussions about digital sovereignty are intensifying. Governments, institutions, companies and civil society are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of controlling their own digital infrastructure. From concerns about data protection and vendor lock-in to questions of political autonomy, the topic has moved from niche circles to mainstream policy debates. In our new Digital Sovereignty Index, we show how countries compare in digital independence!
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Nextcloud developed the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a simple metric to illustrate how much self hosted collaboration applications are actively used across nearly 60 countries. It represents the relative amount of deployments of self-hosted productivity & collaboration tools per 100,000 citizens, compared to other countries.
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Here is a more detailed description: https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-index-how-countries-compare-in-digital-independence/
Sounds cool but also a bit meaningless? What do we count as self hosted, just citizens hosting personal stuff or are we counting company infrastructure? Because I think the latter is much more important, 90% of personally self hosted stuff is for 1 person and maybe their family and friends, which doesn’t really scale and isn’t something we need to necessarily strive for. I self host, but I don’t think we can expect the average Joe to as well.