Category: Open Digital Ecosystems
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Open Networks: Europe’s Path to Digital Sovereignty
In an increasingly connected yet fragmented world, Europe is at a crossroads. As global digital platforms consolidate control over data, services, and markets, questions of autonomy, resilience, and inclusion are coming to the fore. To address these challenges, Europe must move beyond reactive regulation or isolated investments. It needs a fresh approach to digital infrastructure—one…
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EuroStack: Why Europe’s Digital Stack Needs a Commons Mindset
This post builds on Part 1 of our series on Europe’s digital future, where we explored why open networks are essential to digital sovereignty, resilience, and fair markets. In this follow-up we examine how Europe’s current digital infrastructure measures up—and what it would take to transform it into a coherent, commons-governed system. In recent years, “digital sovereignty” has moved…
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Architecting Soft Power: India’s DPI Story
For much of the 20th century, soft power came from cultural exports—cinema, literature, universities, diplomacy. In the 21st, a new dimension has emerged: digital infrastructure. Today, India’s rising global stature isn’t just about economics (5th largest economy in the world) or geopolitics (a regional counterweight to China, a key voice in forums like the G20…
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Green Shoots of Open Networks
Seeding a More Inclusive Digital Future A quiet revolution is underway. Across continents and sectors, a new model for digital infrastructure is beginning to take root. It’s not driven by mega platforms or proprietary ecosystems, but by open networks — decentralized, interoperable systems built on the principles of inclusion, transparency, and participation. These early efforts…
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Why Open Networks Are Strategic Infrastructure in a Fractured World
We often speak of open networks as the future of digital transformation. But that framing may no longer be enough. Today, they must be understood as something more urgent: infrastructure for survival, resilience, and sovereignty in a world that is anything but stable. We are in a moment defined not by disruption, but by dislocation…
SANDEEP MAHAJAN 