Core aspects of Digital Sovereignty will be governance of ICT and the new technologies and paradigms mainly with mobile technologies and cloud computing. At the same time, these aspects are some of the hardest security challenges. The intersect of these areas will be the major drivers when it comes to the lead or even domination in the field of ICT over the next decade.

With this digital sovereignty and international agreements, e.g. TTIP will play a decisive role in this game. The fall of the Safe Harbor will add even more complexity.

Europe seems to have given in with the global division where America focusses on large and industrial software and systems where Asia has taken the lead with hardware as labor and environment conditions are not reflected in the products.

Europe being one of the largest markets is still struggling with its position in this game. Consumer’s needs and security as well as data protection and trusted information security might be areas where Europe has fair chances but at the end it will be about governance.

While overarching and global some of the key factors of such governance will be factored into important detail aspects and new ICT paradigms like mobile and cloud computing and might even take dominant roles.