Jun 25, 2026 · 45 min · 15 segments
In this episode Martin and Chris tackle the important subject of digital sovereignty. Something becoming more and more important if you don't want to wake up one morning just to see all of your mails…
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Martin, why don't we set the scene with regards to what digital, what sovereignty really is and what digital sovereignty especially is and why this is so bloody important these days?
Yeah, that's a curious one because...
I think the wording is a bit curious to me.
Obviously, a sovereign is like a monarch or someone from a kind of ruler kind of person.
Yeah, so it's like, what does this got to do with any digitality? So anyway, yeah, the wording is not great.
I guess it comes from sovereign state rather
than...
Do we hazard a better explanation, I wonder?
Yes, I guess it comes from sovereign state rather than from the sovereign...
As an independence, more or less, right? Well, yeah, I mean, traditionally, countries used to have sovereign rights, which I think probably where that came from.
Most of them did away with them, no? No.
I don't know.
Is that correct? I don't know.
Quite a lot of them.
I don't know who spoke to them.
I don't have the statistics.
Most of the countries on the planet, well, on the surface, there are democracies.
But if you dig a little bit deeper, Russia, of course, comes to
mind.
Things look slightly different.
But anyway.
I mean, it's the same in the US, right?
Very true.
There you have actually two sovereigns, namely the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Ah, I thought you meant Elon Musk.
Martin, why don't we set the scene with regards to what digital, what sovereignty really is and what digital sovereignty especially is and why this is so bloody important these days?
Yeah, that's a curious one because...
I think the wording is a bit curious to me.
Obviously, a sovereign is like a monarch or someone from a kind of ruler kind of person.
Yeah, so it's like, what does this got to do with any digitality? So anyway, yeah, the wording is not great.
I guess it comes from sovereign state rather
than...
Do we hazard a better explanation, I wonder?
Yes, I guess it comes from sovereign state rather than from the sovereign...
As an independence, more or less, right? Well, yeah, I mean, traditionally, countries used to have sovereign rights, which I think probably where that came from.
Most of them did away with them, no? No.
I don't know.
Is that correct? I don't know.
Quite a lot of them.
I don't know who spoke to them.
I don't have the statistics.
Most of the countries on the planet, well, on the surface, there are democracies.
But if you dig a little bit deeper, Russia, of course, comes to
mind.
Things look slightly different.
But anyway.
I mean, it's the same in the US, right?
Very true.
There you have actually two sovereigns, namely the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Ah, I thought you meant Elon Musk.
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