The Sovereign Computing Initiative is an open, collaborative effort to define a category: open source, self-hosted foundation infrastructure that organisations can run, trust, and procure with confidence.

What we are trying to do

Our mission is to give the market real options - to make the open, sovereign, European choice a well-defined and procurable one, and so remove the excuses for not choosing it. We do that by defining the category, developing a conformance framework that procurement teams can use directly, and building the community and ecosystem around it.

We are not building a product or a platform, and we do not compete with the providers in our field. We define the shared ground they build on.

Where this came from

The initiative grew out of practical open source work on self-hosted foundation infrastructure - notably the HPS and TAPPaaS projects - and out of a recognition that the category itself was missing. What standards bodies and application projects had each addressed in part, no one had defined as a coherent, procurable whole. The initiative formed to do exactly that, through open collaboration and regular working meetings.

Where we are going

Our near-term focus is to:

• settle the category definition, its commercial models, and its routes to procurement
• bring together a founding group of member organisations
• present the offering, with concrete commercial and qualification models, during 2026
• establish the initiative as a formal not-for-profit organisation with public governance
• define and begin issuing the Verified Sovereign Computing Mark

Over the longer term, we intend the conformance framework to mature towards a recognised, independently governed standard.

How it is funded

Sustainability is expected to combine European public funding instruments - such as NGI Commons, Horizon Europe, and the Digital Europe Programme - with commercial revenue from support, conformance auditing, and Mark attestation. The aim is an organisation that does not depend on grants alone.

Take part

The work needs the perspectives of those who deploy infrastructure, those who build it, those who procure it, and those who set the policy around it. If that is you, get involved - there is no fee and no formal commitment to take part at this stage.