In my week at Open Source Summit Europe and AI_Dev in Amsterdam, the topic of digital sovereignty persisted throughout various keynotes, panels, and hallway track conversations. Control, agency, and participation are seen as critical for Europe’s digital future. But sovereignty does not necessarily equate to solutions built within a country’s borders. Instead, it is seen as a larger movement of capacity-building that places local developers and innovators as builders and decision-makers on the global open source technologies the country or region relies on. This is as relevant in Europe as it is in my home country of Canada, where concerns around digital sovereignty also abound.

Governments and businesses are at an inflection point in the development of AI, with the question of sovereignty also looming large in this context: How can we build AI infrastructure for us—AI in our own languages, using our own data, reflecting our own norms and context?

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