If you can't access the data, is it really yours?

La digital sovereignty It is one of the most discussed topics in recent years. And it's also one of the most misunderstood.

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It's a complex topic,”Matryoshka”, which contains inside multiple reading levels: regulatory, technological, geopolitical, industrial. In this CloudFire Flow there is no ambition to exhaust the topic or to propose a definitive definition. The objective is different: to focus on an aspect often taken for granted, but central to today's IT choices, the real availability of what we buy as a digital service.

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In this meeting, digital sovereignty is not addressed as a regulatory or geographical label, but as a matter of perception and choice. A point of view that focuses on access to services and the ability to decide, today and over time, without undeclared dependencies.

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The discussion will take place together with Michele Zunino, President of Consorzio Italia Cloud, with an approach deliberately far from slogans and ideological contrasts.

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The basic question is not: Is my data safe? But rather: “Is what I'm paying for a service really available to me?”‍

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Because sovereignty isn't just about who can see the data, but who can decide if and when you can access it.

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The risk is not that someone will 'take' the data. The risk is that someone might stop you from using them.

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From this perspective, very concrete and often uncomfortable questions emerge:

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• How independent am I really from the big tech players?
• To what extent can I guarantee business continuity and freedom of choice?
• What happens when critical functions, business or public, depend on subjects that do not respond to the same decision-making perimeter?

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When an organization's strategic choices may be contractually or technically conditioned by an external supplier, sovereignty ceases to be an abstract concept. It becomes a concrete variable in IT decisions.

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Digital sovereignty is not defined on a national or European perimeter. And it's not just a geographical issue.

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It is defined on the perimeter of the services to which we choose to grant control, availability and possibility of choice.

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‍This approach has direct impacts on industrial competitiveness, market freedom and balance between large and small players.

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If to design, produce or innovate you depend on resources that someone else can modify and limit competition, it ceases to be truly fair.

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This CloudFire Flow is not an 'against' or 'for' someone's event. It is an open discussion on how to read digital sovereignty today for what it really is: a strategic lever that touches technology, business, industry and decision-making autonomy.

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Like any CloudFire Flow, it won't be a face-to-face lesson. It will be a space for dialogue, questions and discussion between professionals.