Digital public goods: Enablers of digital sovereignty
Liv Marte K. Nordhaug, Lucy Harris · Development cooperation report ... · 2021
Digital sovereignty helps countries maintain control over their decision making and implementation of services. Proprietary technology can lead to technological lock-ins and silos that threaten digital sovereignty, but digital public goods, a type of open-source solution, allow countries to adopt, adapt and scale technology in ways that maintain their flexibility. As uptake of digital public goods – and thus digital sovereignty – spreads, it is reshaping the patterns of development co-operation.