Sovereign Computing Initiative
An open initiative for sovereign digital infrastructure
The problem
Organisations across Europe and beyond are seeking genuine control over their digital infrastructure. The demand is real and growing - driven by regulatory pressure, geopolitical risk, and a hard-won recognition that dependency on hyperscale cloud providers carries strategic cost.
The supply side has not kept pace.
Standards frameworks like the Sovereign Cloud Stack and GAIA-X define what sovereign infrastructure should look like. End-user applications like Nextcloud and OpenDesk are ready to run on it. But the layer in between - turnkey, self-hosted, open source foundation infrastructure that a non-specialist organisation can actually operate on its own hardware - remains fragmented, inconsistently defined, and difficult to procure.
That is the gap the Sovereign Computing Initiative exists to address.
What we are doing
We are defining a category.
Not a product, not a platform, not a vendor. A clear, shared definition of what sovereign computing infrastructure is, what it must include, and what conformance looks like - so that organisations can procure it, suppliers can build to it, and the ecosystem can grow around it.
The category we are defining is open source, self-hosted foundation infrastructure: the compute, storage, network, identity, security, and operational services that sit beneath applications and above hardware. Sovereign by design. Operable without specialist expertise. Conformant with emerging EU standards.
Who is involved
The Sovereign Computing Initiative is an open, collaborative effort. We are inviting technologists, organisations, policymakers, and open source projects to participate in defining the category, shaping the conformance framework, and building the ecosystem around it.
We are globally minded and EU-rooted, working in alignment with EuroStack, GAIA-X, the Sovereign Cloud Stack, and related European digital sovereignty initiatives.
Get involved
We are at an early stage and actively seeking collaborators - organisations, projects, and individuals who share the goal of making sovereign computing infrastructure a well-defined, procurable reality.