The ability of a state or region to control critical digital infrastructure, data, standards and technology dependencies.
Also written as: technology sovereignty, tech sovereignty
Primary source Reviewed 2026-06-22
Analysis that uses this term
- Brussels Has Five Tools to Fight Washington's Tech Aggression — Only One Is a RulebookThe EU's response to US tech coercion spans five instruments — regulation is the weakest. CAIDA's structural contradiction and the interim dependency window
- Europe's Five Cards — and the Two It Will Actually Play: A Deployability AuditA deployability audit of Europe's five response levers to US tech coercion. Regulation and procurement will scale; physical capacity, talent, and the ACI will
- CAIDA's Sovereignty Tiers: Legal Architecture or Hyperscaler Licence to Stay?CAIDA's tiered cloud framework lets AWS, Azure, and Google qualify as sovereign providers.
- Atlantic Fault Lines Deepen: US Tech Policies Threaten EU Digital AutonomyTrump's administration is weaponizing tariffs against allies (100% on Canada) while demanding digital concessions from the EU.
- Welcome to Silicon and StoneThe Long View from the Edge.
- Europe's Open Source Gambit: The Sovereignty Play Nobody's Talking AboutEurope can't out-build Silicon Valley. But it might out-open-source them.