Digital Sovereignty in the Age of AI
Originally published on Digoshen Blog, August 30, 2025
In a digital world shaped by AI, sovereignty is no longer about access, but about control—of infrastructure, innovation, and values. The frontier has shifted from who owns the servers to who guides the intelligence.
Key reflections from the full article include:
- Why digital sovereignty rests on governing data, infrastructure, and AI under one’s own laws and values.
- How innovation capacity—seen in indices like the Global Innovation Index—anchors long-term independence.
- Why the real battleground is now AI models, where the U.S. and China dominate, and Europe pushes open, sovereign alternatives.
- How the Nordics illustrate both strength and paradox—Finland leads, while others lag but invest in national models.
- Why responsible AI and ecosystem governance are now critical dimensions of sovereignty.
- What boards must oversee: infrastructure, innovation, and responsibility—woven across complex ecosystems.
The invitation is urgent: to see sovereignty not as isolation, but as the capacity to shape digital futures responsibly, with innovation and values aligned.
Read the full article on Digoshen: Digital Sovereignty in the Age of AI
About Liselotte Engstam, Digoshen & Novisali
Liselotte Engstam is an explorer of perspectives, an adventurer of ideas, a pathfinder of meaning, and a guide of timeless transitions. She bridges the worlds of board leadership and art, helping organizations and individuals navigate disruption while nurturing creativity and reflection.
As founder of Digoshen, she works with boards and leaders to expand future insights and reduce digital and sustainability blindspots. Through research, networks, and executive programs, Digoshen supports responsible value creation in the digital and sustainable age, contributing thought leadership via books, articles, events, Digoshen Exploring Leaders podcast, and blogs.
She also serves as Chair of the Boards Impact Forum in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance. The Forum convenes board members, thought leaders, and experts in dialogues, webinars, and collaborative events, accelerating action on climate, AI, and sustainability.
Through her artistic practice as Novisali, Liselotte explores creativity and meaning. Her watercolors, digitally reimagined, invite reflection and renewal, offering perspectives that connect head, heart, and hand, and complementing her work with leaders and boards.
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