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Digital sovereignty is the question of who actually governs the infrastructure a society depends on, and these posts ask it without romanticizing the answer. I write about the appeal of local control, domestic clouds, national AI strategies, open-source stacks a country can audit, and about the hard trade-offs, the cost of building alternatives, the risk of isolation, and the way "sovereignty" can become a cover for surveillance if citizens are not careful. The pieces here are especially attentive to the Middle East, where reliance on foreign cloud providers is both an economic drain and a strategic vulnerability, and where the alternative is not autarky but leverage. Sovereignty is not a destination. It is a bargaining position.
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Reading Microsoft's modern stance on open weights feels surreal when you remember the 2001 WhiteHouse.gov Linux migration and the 2006 Novell deal. Here is why the modern 'open...
From Amman, the current open-source AI wave feels uncannily familiar. The same builder energy, the same elite gatekeeping, and the same fight over who gets to shape the future o...
