openCode Connect August 2026

Measuring Digital Sovereignty: From a Catalogue of Criteria to Practical Application

How can public authorities systematically assess Digital Sovereignty and derive concrete courses of action from this? To this end, ZenDiS is developing practical criteria for sovereignty through an open consultation process, which will help public authorities to identify dependencies and make informed decisions regarding a sovereign digital infrastructure. Lea Beiermann (Partnership Lead, ZenDiS) provides an update on the current status of the ZenDiS criteria catalogue and the evaluation of the consultation. The focus is on assessing sovereignty at organisational level and for business-critical IT solutions, a clear and practical assessment framework, and integration with existing frameworks (in particular the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework and the Federal Office for Information Security's (BSI) C3A).