OSB Alliance
Digital sovereignty at risk
Microsoft has signaled to the federal administration that the company's central software products for public administration will only be usable as cloud software from 2025. The government must take action if it does not want to jeopardize its goals of digital sovereignty.
Microsoft has signaled to the federal administration that the company's central software products for public administration can only be used as cloud software from 2025. Around 300,000 public sector employees in the federal sector and a much larger number in state and local government will then have to work with cloud-based Microsoft software in future. This large-scale switch to Microsoft's cloud services would massively increase existing dependencies and would contradict the self-imposed goals of the German government and the EU, such as those adopted in the Berlin Declaration of the EU member states.
The Open Source Business Alliance - Federal Association for Digital Sovereignty - makes it clear in a statement that the federal government's self-imposed goals towards digital sovereignty must be supported and the foundations for a rapid and modern digitalization of the administration must be laid. In addition to vendor independence, digital sovereignty also requires security, transparency and GDPR compliance (keyword Cloud Act) as well as the ability to actively shape it through the administration itself and through a strong German and European digital industry. In its statement , the OSB Alliance points out ways and options for action for the administration to be able to act more flexibly and independently and at the same time create great benefits for the German and European economic area. In the document, the OSB Alliance also refers to initiatives such as Gaia-X, the federally funded "Sovereign Cloud Stack" (SCS) and the "Phoenix" project. The use of such standards and the success of these initiatives will increase the performance and creative capacity of the European digital economy.
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