Digital Sovereignty by Design:

The ‘Digital Sovereignty by Design’ project ran from 2022 to 2024, with a purpose of identifying and addressing the impacts that the EU’s move to digital sovereignty presented for the EU and UK’s cybersecurity landscape. It addressed how interaction and competition between stakeholders influence the establishment of regulatory regimes over new technological innovations, or categories of technology. The focus of this project was the microprocessor industry. More info can be found here.

Since the completion of the project, the two lead investigators, Professor Benjamin Farrand and Professor Helena Carrapico, have continued to work on these issues, and are maintaining this website with updates on the intersections between geopolitics and technology governance, with an emphasis on digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy.

This project was funded by Discribe. Discribe is a groundbreaking social science-led digital security research programme, part of the UK Government’s wider Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Programme to drive the development of DSbD technology. Digital Sovereignty by Design is one of the projects currently being funded by Discribe. Information on its other projects can be found here