Panel: Designing Digital Sovereignty: Democratic Governance Models for Public-Interest Digital Infrastructure

While there is growing consensus around the need for sovereign or public-interest digital infrastructure in the EU, there is much less clarity on what democratic governance and ownership models could underpin them, and how public policy could incentivise such models without mandating them.

The session would explore what alternative governance structures for tech and digital infrastructure exist or could be imagined, drawing on examples from public-private partnerships and mixed-ownership models in tech and other sectors. It would also examine how EU policy tools, such as public procurement or innovation funding, could help create the conditions for their development in support of democratic and innovation goals.

Speakers:
Belen Luna Sanz (WHAT TO FIX)
Rudi Borrmann (open Government Partnership)
Jan Panfrat (EDRi)

Moderator:
Sofia Calabrese (European Partnership for Democracy)