# Digital Sovereignty Is No Longer a Buzzword — It's Procurement Policy (matrix-conf-2026)

Just days before this conference, the European Commission adopted the **European Technological Sovereignty Package**, placing open source explicitly at the centre of Europe's digital strategy for the first time. The timing is not coincidental. It is the political response to a structural dependency Europe can no longer afford to ignore: critical infrastructure — including healthcare — running on platforms controlled by others. This talk makes a practical argument: digital sovereignty has moved from political rhetoric to **procurement reality**. Across Europe, more than 20 governments have

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