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        <h1 class="">How Countries
Compare in Digital
Independence</h1>
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        <div class="col-md-3"><span class="heading-number">01</span></div>
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            <h2>Around the world, discussions about
digital sovereignty are intensifying.</h2>
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                <p>Governments, institutions, companies and civil society
are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of
controlling their own digital infrastructure.</p>
                <p>From concerns about data protection and vendor lockin
to questions of political autonomy, the topic has
moved from niche circles to mainstream policy
debates.</p>
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                <p>Yet while the debate is global, the actual state of digital
sovereignty varies widely between countries. Policies
may exist, but how much infrastructure is really
running locally, instead of the cloud? What choices do
people make? And how does this compare to the
policy of the public sector?</p>
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   To address this question, we developed the Digital
Sovereignty Index DSI a simple metric to illustrate
how much self hosted collaboration applications are
actively used across over 50 countries. It represents
the relative amount of deployments of self-hosted
productivity & collaboration tools per 100,000 citizens,
compared to other countries. 
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        <li><span class="title">Finland</span> <div class="score">64.5</div></li>
        <li><span class="title">Germany</span> <div class="score">53.8</div></li>
        <li><span class="title">Netherlands</span> <div class="score">36.3</div></li>
        <li><span class="title">France</span> <div class="score">25.1</div></li>
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            <h2>Uneven progress and surprising gaps in
            digital sovereignty across Europe and
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            <p>The results of the first Digital Sovereignty Index show
significant differences in the adoption of self-hosted
infrastructure across Europe and beyond.</p>
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                While the public debate around digital sovereignty has
gained momentum in recent years, actual usage of
sovereign digital tools remains fragmented – and in
many places surprisingly low.
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                <span class="score">14.8</span>
                <span class="title">United States DSI Score</span>
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                <span class="score">16.3</span>
                <span class="title">Average EU DSI Score</span>
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            <h2>How to read the numbers</h2>
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            <h5 class="mb-3">The Digital Sovereignty Index ranks countries based
on the relative presence of self-hosted tools across
key application areas.</h5>

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                The scores are comparative, not absolute – a high
score indicates stronger relative deployment than in
other countries, but not necessarily broad adoption.
The data reflects visible tool usage across society,
particularly among individuals and small organisations.
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                The index reflects the number of servers, not their size
― making it more indicative of what small companies
and private individuals use, rather than the policies of
large corporations or governments.
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                        Studies show that most government agencies in
Europe are completely dependent on Microsoft,
Google and other big tech solutions. But the scores
show that in several European countries, civil society
makes different choices than their government does,
opting for hosting large numbers of servers running
project management tools, file store and exchange
platforms, groupware or video or chat applications.
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                        In Germany, for example, the relatively high score
suggests that sovereign tools are more commonly
used in the general population than in some parts of
the public sector. States like Schleswig-Holstein, which
are introducing self-hosted, open source
infrastructure, may therefore be more closely aligned
with the choices than those using Microsoft 365.
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                <tr><td>🇫🇮 Finland</td><td>64.50</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇩🇪 Germany</td><td>53.85</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇳🇱 Netherlands</td><td>36.32</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇫🇷 France</td><td>25.10</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇨🇭 Switzerland</td><td>23.32</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇸 Iceland</td><td>22.58</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇪 Ireland</td><td>22.03</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇦🇹 Austria</td><td>20.23</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇪🇪 Estonia</td><td>18.40</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇱🇺 Luxembourg</td><td>17.72</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇱🇻 Latvia</td><td>16.63</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇱🇹 Lithuania</td><td>16.10</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇨🇦 Canada</td><td>14.94</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇺🇸 United States</td><td>14.88</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇸🇪 Sweden</td><td>14.27</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇭🇺 Hungary</td><td>13.38</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇸🇮 Slovenia</td><td>13.33</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇨🇿 Czechia</td><td>13.10</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇧🇬 Bulgaria</td><td>12.93</td></tr>
                
               
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                <tr><td>🇦🇺 Australia</td><td>10.20</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇬🇧 U. Kingdom</td><td>9.21</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇹🇼 Taiwan</td><td>8.49</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇷🇴 Romania</td><td>7.66</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇵🇱 Poland</td><td>7.55</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇭🇷 Croatia</td><td>7.25</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇧🇪 Belgium</td><td>7.15</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇪🇸 Spain</td><td>7.01</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇷🇺 Russia</td><td>6.95</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇩🇰 Denmark</td><td>6.50</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇹 Italy</td><td>6.49</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇳🇴 Norway</td><td>6.35</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇸🇰 Slovakia</td><td>5.88</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇶🇦 Qatar</td><td>5.71</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇷🇸 Serbia</td><td>5.44</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇨🇾 Cyprus</td><td>5.25</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇯🇵 Japan</td><td>5.17</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇰🇷 South Korea</td><td>5.05</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇬🇷 Greece</td><td>4.81</td></tr>
                
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                 <tr><td>🇵🇹 Portugal</td><td>4.33</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇳🇿 New Zealand</td><td>4.23</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇱 Israel</td><td>3.71</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇲🇹 Malta</td><td>3.38</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇺🇦 Ukraine</td><td>2.83</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇦🇷 Argentina</td><td>2.57</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇧🇷 Brazil</td><td>2.44</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇹🇷 Turkey</td><td>2.26</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇿🇦 South Africa</td><td>1.79</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇩 Indonesia</td><td>1.07</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇲🇦 Morocco</td><td>0.94</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia</td><td>0.87</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇲🇽 Mexico</td><td>0.57</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇹🇳 Tunisia</td><td>0.55</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇯🇲 Jamaica</td><td>0.51</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇮🇳 India</td><td>0.43</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇬🇱 Greenland</td><td>0.36</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇪🇬 Egypt</td><td>0.12</td></tr>
                <tr><td>🇳🇬 Nigeria</td><td>0.03</td></tr>
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    <h2>Key Findings</h2>
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        Finland 64.5) leads the overall index with a strong
presence in nearly all categories compared to the
other countries.
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        Germany (53.8) is number 2 ― being first in data
storage application servers in particular.
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        France (25.1), however, lags behind significantly with
weak adoption of self-hosted tools in collaborative
areas.
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        Spain (7.0) and Italy (6.4) score very low
(EU average: 16.3). Neither country has a strong focus
on sovereignty.
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        <li><span class="line"></span>The Netherlands, arguably far more digitalized than
Germany, still lags behind in the DSI.</li>
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        The baltic states, Latvia (16.6) Estonia (18.4),
Lithuania (16.0) are surprisingly only in the midfield.
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    The DSI indicates that Swiss organizations and
individuals (23.3) are embracing sovereign software
more widely than many expect.</li>
        <li><span class="line"></span>Austria (20.2) also ranks above the EU average (16.3)
for digital sovereignty.</li>
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            <h2>Per Country Analysis</h2>
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            Finland leads with
consistency
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                Finland 64.5) leads the overall
index with a strong presence in
nearly all categories compared to
the other countries.
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                Its strengths lie in sovereign file
storage, self-hosting infrastructure
and groupware, which includes
software that allows individuals and
organizations to host essential
services like email on their own
infrastructure, rather than relying
on external cloud providers.
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                Germany follows,
                with file storage
                and selfhosting
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                <p>
                    Germany ranks second in the Digital
                    Sovereignty Index with a score of
                    53.85, above the EU average of 16.
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                    The strong performance is largely
                    driven by the use of communication
                    tools and data storage.
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                    Across categories, Germany shows
                    one of the most balanced and
                    consistent profiles, coming in just
                    behind Finland but well ahead of
                    the rest of the field.
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                    <p>
                        Given the known dependence of
                    the public sector on big tech, it is
                    interesting to note that so many
                    citizens and organizations choose
                    self-hosted solutions.
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                    <h5 class="mb-3">Sovereign Data:</h5>
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                    Germany 67.2; Finland 54.9;
Switzerland 37.4</div>
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                    Greenland 0.1, Egypt 0,
Nigeria 0</div>
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                        <h5 class="mb-3">Sovereign Groupware:</h5>
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                        Finland 54, Germany 50.4,
Austria 34.9</div>
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                        Morocco 0, Egypt 0,
Nigeria 0</div>
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                    <h5 class="mb-3">Sovereign Communication:</h5>
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                        Finland 83.7, Germany 60.8,
Iceland 29.8</div>
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                    Nigeria 0, Egypt 0,
Greenland 0</div>
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                    <h5 class="mb-3">Self-hosting tech:</h5>
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                        Finland 49.6, Germany 47.8,
Netherlands 46.0</div>
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                        Egypt 0.1, Nigeria 0,
Greenland 0</div>
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                        <h5 class="mb-3">Sovereign Projects:</h5>
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                            Finland 86.9, Germany 58.5,
Netherlands 38.6</div>
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                            Morocco 0.1, Nigeria 0,
Greenland 0</div>
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            The Netherlands, France and
Iceland complete the top five
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                <p>The Netherlands ranks third with a
score of 36.32, marking a steep
drop from Germany’s 53.85 and
highlighting the significant gap
between the top two and the rest of
the field.</p>
                <p>There is of course an impact of
digitalization in general. But the
Netherlands, which is arguably far
more digitalized than Germany, still
lags behind in the DSI.</p>
                <p>
                    This would strongly suggest that
business and citizens in the
Netherlands have focused more on
public cloud services than hosting
their own collaboration and data
storage servers.
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                    France follows in fourth place with
just 25.1 points ― closer to the EU
average of 16.3 than to the top tier.
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                    Its score is primarily driven by the
availability of self-hosting
infrastructure such as Plex and
Webmin, while adoption in more
collaborative categories is weak:
France ranks only eighth for both
file storage and project
management, and eleventh for
communication tools.

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                    Iceland completes the top five with
22.58 points.
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                Mixed results across the Nordics
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                While Finland leads the Digital
Sovereignty Index with a strong
score of 64.5, its Nordic neighbours
fall far behind. Sweden ranks only
15th with 14.27 points ― just below
the EU average ― while Denmark
6.50) and Norway 6.35) land near
the bottom of the list.
The stark contrast within this
economically and digitally advanced
region highlights that digital
sovereignty depends not only on
infrastructure and innovation, but
also on political prioritization and
concrete implementation.
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                Baltic states fall short despite
digital government leadership
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                    Latvia 16.63, Estonia 18.4) and
Lithuania 16.1) are known for their
advanced e-government
infrastructure and are often seen as
digital pioneers. Yet when it comes
to digital sovereignty, all three
countries remain in the midfield.
Their scores cluster around the EU
average of 16.3, suggesting that a
strong digital public sector does
not automatically translate into
broad adoption of self-hosted or
sovereign digital tools across
society.
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                 Spain and Italy show surprisingly low adoption
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                With scores of just 7.01 and 6.49
respectively, Spain and Italy fall
well below the EU average of 16.3
and rank among the lowestperforming
countries in the Digital
Sovereignty Index.
Despite some visible national
initiatives and political rhetoric
around digital sovereignty, the
actual uptake of sovereign tools
remains minimal across nearly all
categories. The gap between
ambition and implementation is
striking – Spain, for instance,
recently opted to store judicial
wiretaps on Huawei servers, raising
further questions about its strategic
priorities.
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                        I am very pleased that the
evaluation has shown that a aboveaverage
number of open source
products are used on local servers
in Germany. This is also a great
source of knowledge and
experience and demonstrates a
good awareness of digital
sovereignty.
Public administration is heavily
dependent on products from digital
monopolies and runs the risk of
paying exorbitant prices with
taxpayers’ money in the long term.
The EU's service deficit for
software licenses, cloud services,
and other costs with the U.S.
reached an alarming record level of
€148 billion last year. A digital
"Zeitenwende" is urgently needed.
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                    <strong>Harald Wehnes</strong>
                    <span>Würzburg computer science professor</span>
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                        I believe that Europe should work
towards digital sovereignty and
keep up with our data privacy
values and rules.
Open standards and open source
technologies are also becoming
increasingly important in this
context, and are essential for a
resilient digital landscape.
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                    <strong>Pernille Tranberg</strong>
                    <span>Independent advisor in data and AI ethics</span>
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            <h3>United States: limited adoption
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            <span>especially in groupware</span>
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                        With a score of just 14.88, the
United States is below the EU
average.
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                        Adoption of self-hosted tools is
only moderate across most
categories and particularly weak in
groupware, including essential
services likeemail and calendars.
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                        The heavy reliance on centralized
cloud platforms continues to
undermine the broader use of selfhosted,
privacy-preserving
infrastructure.
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                <p>To generate the Digital Sovereignty Index, we relied on
data from Shodan.io, a search engine that scans the
internet for publicly accessible servers. For each of the
applications, we searched for country-specific IP
addresses that visibly run these tools. This was based
on identifiable patterns in returned HTML or other
metadata.</p>

                <p>We then adjusted the raw server counts by population
size, calculating the number of observed instances per
100,000 citizens. To avoid skew from tools with very
high or low absolute adoption, we normalized each
product score across all countries and scaled it to a 0
100 range. A country’s overall DSI is the average of its
normalized scores across all products. We also
aggregated scores by product category.</p>

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                Of course, there are limitations. The data represents
publicly visible servers. Any deployment behind a
proxy or firewall may go undetected. Some tools are
harder to identify reliably than others. And while a high
number of servers suggests broad adoption, it does
not reflect data volume, user numbers, or ownership
structure.
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            In short, the DSI offers a comparative view of
observable self hosted deployments across borders. It
does not claim to measure full digital sovereignty, but it
highlights where real infrastructure exists and where
momentum is building.
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            We welcome community feedback to refine the index
over time - including improved search definitions and
suggestions for additional tools to include in future
iterations.
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                        The goal of increasing technological
sovereignty is to reduce dependencies,
and increase control and security for
personal data, as well as businesses'
trade secrets. But more so, we need
open technological sovereignty, as only
with Open Source can we allow the
public and the private sector to create
and innovate sustainably in Europe. We
welcome the Digital Sovereignty Index,
as it shows how the European countries
are doing in this regard.
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                The Digital Sovereignty Index tracks tools that reflect
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            <h6>Tools for task planning, issue
            tracking and team coordination.</h6>
            <p>Taiga, Redmine, OpenProject, Xwiki, Wekan,
            Planka</p>
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            <h6>Real-time communication tools
            such as messengers and video
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                Big Blue Button, Jitsi Meet, Mumble, Matrix/
            Element, Mattermost, Rocket.chat, Zimbra,
            Nextcloud Talk
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            <h6>Integrated solutions for email,
            calendar, and contacts, forming the
            backbone of digital offices.</h6>
            <p>Roundcube, Zimbra, Mailcow, SOGo, Kopano,
            Nextcloud Groupware</p>
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            <h6>Platforms that enable users to
            store, share and collaborate on files
            in a self-hosted environment.</h6>
            <p>
            Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile, Pydio, Cryptpad,
            Etherpad, OnlyOffice Docs, HedgeDoc, Outline
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            <h6>Personal and team tools for notetaking,
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            <p>Joplin Server</p>
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            <h6>Business software that supports
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            Odoo, ERPNext, Dolibarr, SuiteCRM
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            <h6>Infrastructure and admin tools that
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            their own server environments.</h6>
            <p>Plesk, cPanel, DirectAdmin, ISPConfig, Interworx,
            Webmin, Cockpit, Ajenti, Froxlor, YunoHost,
            Cloudron, Proxmox, Portainer, Rancher, Sentora,
            VestaCP, TrueNAS, QNap, Synology, VMWare</p>
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            <h6 class="mb-3">Do you use a self-hosted tool that isn’t
            listed here but should be?</h6>
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            editions of the index. Every contribution
            helps us paint a more complete picture of
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                            Digital Sovereignty is, to some, a nebulous concept.
But for others it just means they own the server that
stores their data. The Digital Sovereignty Index shows
that millions of citizens and businesses already made
that choice. Yet, the public sector is still largely
dependent on big tech.
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                            This gap indicates that government organizations are
deeply dependent on foreign big tech providers, while
many citizens and smaller organizations actually show
they care about digital sovereignty.
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