Europe’s Open Source Moment: Why Digital Sovereignty Cannot Be Built Only with Slogans

REDefine // Civic Intelligence Podcast · Aug 27, 2026 · 1m · transcript

You send an email, save a document, open a school platform, retrieve a patient record or ask an AI assistant to summarise the report you absolutely intended to read yourself. The action takes seconds and feels almost weightless. Yet underneath it sits a technological system of remarkable physical and political complexity: software libraries, operating systems, cloud platforms, data centres, processors, cables, cooling systems, electricity grids, licensing agreements, standards, suppliers and global supply chains. What appears on the screen as a simple click is, underneath, an elaborate…