Munich Makes Digital Sovereignty Measurable With Its Own Score (heise.de)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/0445243/munich-makes-digital-sovereignty-measurable-with-its-own-score
- Source link: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-makes-digital-sovereignty-measurable-with-its-own-score-11164230.html
> The city of Munich has developed its own measurement instrument to assess the digital sovereignty of its IT infrastructure. The so-called Digital Sovereignty Score (SDS) visually resembles the Nutri-Score and identifies IT systems based on their [2]independence from individual providers and 'foreign' legal spheres . The Technical University of Munich was involved in the development.
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> In September and October 2025, the IT Department already conducted a first comprehensive test. Out of a total of 2780 municipal application services, 194 particularly critical ones were selected and evaluated based on five categories. The analysis already showed a high degree of digital sovereignty: 66% of the 194 evaluated services reached the highest levels (SDS 1 and 2), only 5% reached the critical level 4, and 21% reached the most critical level 5. The SDS evaluates not only technical dependencies but also legal and organizational risks.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~alternative_right
[2] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-makes-digital-sovereignty-measurable-with-its-own-score-11164230.html
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Everything is inherently global to some extent. But global systems only work if every actor has good will. Everyone should have learned that lesson by now.
And even within a system of good will, there's still basic facts about sovreignity, like if a country cannot feed itself, it's not independent. When it needs food the most is also when everyone else needs it most, and it will therefore starve. In this real world of ours that sadly has a severe lack of good will, you are going to bend over to someone you r
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Global isn't the problem, it's central control by a foreign entity which is the issue.
Linux is global, and even tho Linus lives in the US and is thus beholden to US law any changes forced by the government would be noticeable, and foreign users could create a fork that's free of further US influence.
The same can't be said of commercial operations - even when a US based company has an EU division, they are ultimately answerable to the US based bosses and thus by extension to the US government. Sure they may
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Everything you just mentioned is physical. They're made of computers and wire, and all of those computers have a physical location and wthe wire goes through holes in the ground. Remember the internet was created to link multiple geographical sites to allow things to continue if one were hit by a nuclear strike.
Just because we're used to dealing with the abstractions doesn't mean the underlying isn't real. It's a long time since this terminology was in use, but even 'the internet' used to be 'an internet
No IP, no independence (Score:2)
> identifies IT systems based on their independence from individual providers and 'foreign' legal spheres.
ISTM that any IT system that requires an internet connection - either directly to function or for support / maintenance has exactly zero independence.
Well done, now start the race (Score:2)
Good job! Now let's hope others follow suit.
Reading some of the other comments, it sounds like the trolls are out or people don't get the idea.
Essentially, in how far can you take your ball and go home, or rather, go play with different people. For office 365 you have exactly one source, but for office, there are now many options. And so on and so forth. Having your data locked into a specific solution without an easy way out sets you up for abuse, see Broadcom. There's a clear need for exit strategies,
good (Score:2)
why dont we all ask our local giv to apply the same score...