Next Level Capacity Building – Becoming Experts for Open-Source, Digital Sovereign Environments

For true digital sovereignty not only the technical solutions are needed but also knowledge, competence, openness to learn, to adapt, to share – in one word: Capacity. For productive sovereign cloud environments the open source software is available, is continously updated and mostly documented ;-). But there is still a lack of engineers who understand the technology, who can further develop, operate, innovate and contribute back. When Europe, Germany or any other country wants to become digital sovereign it needs to have their own engineers, and not one or two but a whole bunch of them! That’s why SOVCAP is in place.
SOVCAP – Sovereign Cloud Capacity Program – is connecting universities and industry partners to create a network of secure, sovereign clouds used for cloud-native development and safe knowledge sharing. But the initiative is not just building infrastructure; it is building the future workforce. By creating open-source university curricula and further-education courses, they are training the next generation to build, operate, and scale secure cloud technologies. This is the foundation of cloud-native software development and digital sovereign cloud hosting, including AI tools.

In this talk the multi-stakeholder initiative is introduced from members from universities and ALASCA e.V., the goal is framed and first results are presented. A growing community for true digital sovereignty.