The Execution Gap: The Silent Crisis in Caribbean Digital Sovereignty - The Voice St. Lucia News By Dr. Abiola Inniss Across the Caribbean and the wider Global South, governments are waking up to a profound reality: …

Given the marketing power of Big AI companies, the way the new technology could change any culture without human consent should worry all of us.
#AI #digitalsovereignty

French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push 2026 is set to be l’année de Linux.

French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
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#linux #digitalsovereignty

I've done it. I created a #Posteo #email account. I'm going to grab my data from #Google and close it all down. I'm done with these evil empires. It'll be a hassle switching everything over but I've had enough. #digitalsovereignty

A split-screen screenshot. The top half shows the dark mode web interface of the Immich photo management app, displaying a gallery of landscape and architectural photos. The bottom half shows a Linux terminal window (Konsole) running the command 'podman ps' filtered for 'immich', displaying four active containers indicating the Immich server, database, machine learning, and Redis services are all successfully running.

Took another step towards #DigitalSovereignty today! I'm now self-hosting my own instance of #Immich to store all my photos, officially saying goodbye to Apple's iCloud. It feels great having everything entirely under my control, running on my own hardware […]

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Yes, it is an opt-out feature. And when you opt-in it is the default storage location for your files.

#Microsoft #Office365
#OneDrive
#CyberSecurity #Privacy
#DigitalSovereignty
#EU #GDPR
#USCloudAct

I turned most of the privacy/security settings in my mobile browser (Chrome) to the max (e.g. disabled 3rd party cookies) and cleared all of the data from the browser and disabled Ad ID. Now Google search thinks that I am a bot. Second time in 24 hours.
👇

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalSovereignty

99 percent want digital independence – 6 percent use AI from the EU Almost all Germans want digital independence – but only a few use European alternatives. A Bitkom survey shows the gap.

Almost all Germans want their IT to be less dependent on foreign countries. Yet, using anything other than Chinese or US cloud AI products is too much of a hassle. That statistic shows nicely how difficult it is to change habits in IT.
#AI #digitalsovereignty

#europe #digitalsovereignty #eu

#france #linux #windows #europe #digitalsovereignty

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push France's DINUM is migrating its workstations to Linux and has ordered every ministry to eliminate US tech dependencies by autumn 2026, covering OS, cloud, and AI tools.

FYI - France's approach to Digital Sovereignty ...
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Why Art Value Will Be Determined by Classification Infrastructure, Not Taste A new classification problem is emerging inside the art world, and it is not about better cataloging. Rather, whether art can be structurally organized at all once machine intelligence begins to defin...

Art value is shifting from taste to infrastructure.
AI classifies artworks by relational patterns across datasets. What becomes visible, comparable, and valuable is increasingly determined by these dynamic classification systems.
Whoever designs them shapes cultural reality.
#AI #DigitalSovereignty

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Art value is shifting from taste to infrastructure.
AI doesn’t classify artworks by fixed categories but by relational patterns across datasets. What becomes visible, comparable, and valuable is increasingly determined by these dynamic classification systems.
Whoever designs them shapes cultural […]

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Im wesentlichen ändert sich nicht. Schwachstellen müssen möglichst lückenlos aufgedeckt und möglichst schnell geschlossen werden. Lediglich das Tooling ändert sich genauso wie in der gesamten Entwicklung. Desto wichtiger wird ist es, dass wir ähnlich starke europäische Tools aufbauen […]

Франція переходить на Linux: як держава замінює Windows у 2026 році Новина, яка змінює правила гри Франція офіційно розпочала масштабний план заміни Windows на Linux у державних установах. Це

France launches large-scale plan to replace Windows with Linux in government.

Why?

Technological sovereignty (CLOUD Act risk)

Financial efficiency (billions in licensing)

#Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #France #EU #Microsoft #Windows

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🐓 Petite dose de fierté nationale (avant que l'incohérence nous rattrape)

Eurodéputée du Parti Pirate tchèque (groupe Verts/Alliance Libre Européenne) salue l'action de la France pour la #SouverainetéNumérique

🇬🇧: Cocorico! MEP happy about France action for #DigitalSovereignty

France has incorporated Linux desktops into its national digital-sovereignty strategy. DINUM, France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate, announced a transition from Windows to Linux workstations. According to an official government press release, this change is part of a broader initiative to reduce reliance on non-European digital technologies (source, in French). The government’s statement is notably direct. The section on workstation evolution confirms that DINUM will replace Windows with Linux systems. The press release also requires each ministry, including public operators, to develop a plan by autumn 2026 addressing desktop systems, collaboration tools, antivirus software, AI, databases, virtualization, and network equipment. This initiative extends beyond a standard desktop migration. France positions Linux adoption as part of a broader policy focused on sovereignty, interoperability, and reducing dependence on foreign vendors. As the announcement comes directly from DINUM, which oversees digital strategy across ministries, it holds greater significance than a local pilot or isolated administrative project. And as you can see, this is a big deal. It is not a leak, rumor, or unofficial plan. It is a formal declaration from one of Europe’s largest governments, explicitly designating Linux as the replacement for Windows workstations as part of a broader interministerial strategy. The extent of the transition will depend on ministry-level plans due later this year, but France has clearly made Linux desktops a key component of its national digital-sovereignty agenda. For now, there are no specific details about which distributions will be used, as that decision will apparently come a bit later.

I really want to hear more about France's plans to migrate government to #Linux as part of their #DigitalSovereignty strategy.

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Le juge français privé de carte bancaire et de Gmail par l'administration Trump témoigne : « Ma vie personnelle est devenue un laboratoire de la perte de souveraineté » Auditionné par la commission d’enquête qui veut dresser l’état des lieux de nos faiblesses en matière digitale, le juge français de la Cour pénale internationale Nicolas Guillou a témoigné de ses huit mois de vie sous la cloche des sanctions américaines.

#Europe MUST reclaim its #DigitalSovereignty

Le juge français privé de carte bancaire et de Gmail par l’administration Trump témoigne : « Ma vie personnelle est devenue un laboratoire de la perte de souveraineté »

Programma Digital Summit 2026 11 April, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

On my way to the #GroenlinksPvdA #PROnl #DigitalSummit.
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Looking forward to it. Perhaps I'll meet some of you there?

#DigitaleAutonomie #DoeiDag #bigtech #DigitalSovereignty

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech. by Zack Whittaker — TechCrunch

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech.

The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on US…

#France #Linux #Tech #Windows #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft

"Open to open-source AI? Navigating AI model choice in public sector agencies" Proprietary models currently dominate; infrastructure, #DigitalSovereignty and #DataProtection are more decisive for #OSAI than in traditional #OSS uptake.

RECAP / RECORDING Canada's AI Strategy: Reading Between the Lines of "What We Heard" isoclive.substack.com/p/tcis-ai-st...

#CanadaAI #AIStrategy #DigitalSovereignty #AIPolicy #cdnpoli @erinkelly.bsky.social

French Govt Ditches Windows for Linux to Reduce Reliance on US Tech France plans to migrate government computers from Windows to Linux as part of a wider digital sovereignty strategy.

France plans to move government computers from Windows to Linux as part of its digital sovereignty strategy. The shift follows a broader EU push to reduce reliance on foreign platforms.

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#Linux #France #DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy

france runs ~5 million government computers on windows. that's 5 million endpoints where a foreign corporation controls the kill switch. "security threat" is underselling it. this is what infrastructure dependency actually costs. #digitalsovereignty

#France plans to switch some government computers from #Microsoft #Windows to the #opensource #Linux operating system to reduce reliance on #UStechnology. This move is part of a broader effort to achieve #digitalsovereignty and protect data and #digitalinfrastructure.…

Nigeria Demands Cloud Sovereignty to Anchor Africa’s Digital Independence Kindly share this postKashifu Inuwa, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, has issued a decisive mandate for African nations to establish domestic cloud infrastructure and data sovereignty or risk permanent digital subservience. Speaking during a high-level strategic session at the GITEX Africa 2026 summit in Morocco, Inuwa argued that the continent […]

When we think of Nigeria and IT, we often default to thinking of scams. However, the country has a serious IT sector, which is co-driving the discussion on Digital Sovereignty on the African Continent.
#digitalsovereignty #africa

Digital Sovereignty Solutions | IBM IBM's digital sovereignty solutions provide a trusted framework to maintain control over your data, applications and infrastructure, while meeting regional and industry-specific regulations. With capabilities designed to work across hybrid environments, IBM helps strengthen business autonomy and close the gap between vision and concrete business outcomes.

And of course, corporate America does not miss a beat...

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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

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France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push France's DINUM is migrating its workstations to Linux and has ordered every ministry to eliminate US tech dependencies by autumn 2026, covering OS, cloud, and AI tools.

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