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• ↓ if writing is a muscle, this is my gym
• ↓ There is Both New Infrastructure and a Genuine Problem
• ↓ Whose Data are we Talking About?
• ↓ What is the Threat Model?
• ↓ Every Choice is a Trade-Off
• ↓ Moving from Sovereignty to Optionality
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"Last week I gave a talk at Chatham House for an event on ‘Is Data Localisation the Answer to Data Sovereignty? Location, Control and the Architecture of Trust’,  organised in collaboration with their Digital Ambassadors Forum. I really enjoyed the conversation and questions and had a number of people ask for slides and more details so have put together the following summary."

"Four years ago I had the privilege of hosting digital transformation leaders from around the world at Rockefeller’s Bellagio conference centre. In the room we had senior officials from governments that represented at least 2 billion people. Much of our conversation focused on digital public infrastructure (then…a new topic) but at one point the conversation shifted to data and sovereignty. Most leaders in the room insisted that yes, data mattered and, obviously, data localization was the answer. Everyone, that is, except the Ukrainian in the room. We’ll come back to that."

"If data localization is the solution… what problem is it solving? What is the nature of the “data sovereignty” we think is a threat? My experience is that data’s location says very little about sovereignty… and the reduction of local vs abroad on where data is stored both presupposes some fairly pre-digital notions of sovereignty and ignores a lot of options and tradeoffs that could befuddle a policy maker. If you’re too busy to read any of this post, this first slide sums up much of what I’m getting at. On one axis is a range of models for storing data. Some are “local,” others are not. On the other axis is a range of threats one should be thinking about when storing data (this list isn’t even exhaustive). The resulting matrix (which would be unique for any country or company) tries to lay out the real tradeoffs between storage models and risk types. But more than anything else it suggests localization is not a magic cure-all for one’s policy or economic woes."

"I think sovereignty (or as I prefer, agency) is best achieved via adopting multiple models to provide coverage against a range of threats. This also has tradeoffs, and, to be most effective suggests governments should be trying to shape the cloud market into being more interoperable. This argument – which I refer to as a “commoditized stack” – offers a more promising path to agency than anything currently on the table."

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if writing is a muscle, this is my gym

There is Both New Infrastructure and a Genuine Problem

Whose Data are we Talking About?

What is the Threat Model?

Every Choice is a Trade-Off

Moving from Sovereignty to Optionality