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In our Digital Transformation and reform work, many countries consider how to assure Cloud Sovereignty. The EU AI Continent Action Plan could establish criteria to measure sovereignty across various dimensions, including strategic, legal, operational, and environmental considerations. Its recommendations could be translated into practical actions: 1. Rapidly scale sovereign computing: Invest in multi‑tier sovereign data centre computing with capacity tripling within ~5–7 years. If affordable, “AI Factories” could train and finetune models. Tier facilities with long‑term power contracts and accelerate siting/permitting for low‑carbon centres. Tie government R&D grants to domestic capacity builds. 2. Make data usable at scale (without losing control). Pass interoperability and portability rules, standardise consent/contracting templates, and fund neutral labs that certify and steward national datasets (health, mobility, industry) for AI use under your laws. 3. Close the talent gap: Stand up a national AI skills academy, maybe via a scholarship/fellowship scheme bonded to local work; embed AI course frameworks across universities and technical institutes; use regional digital‑innovation hubs to retrain public servants and SMEs. 4. Pull demand through in strategic sectors: Drive adoption in priority sectors with public–private pilots. Run mission‑driven challenge funds (e.g., “AI for health,” “AI for local manufacturing”), with shared tools hosted in sovereign cloud regions to avoid data export and lock‑in. 5. Simplify rules to build trust and speed, pairing innovation with governance: implement an AI Act to give legal certainty and boost citizen trust. Create a “one‑stop” AI compliance desk for SMEs, publish model risk‑management templates, and provide open tools so businesses can meet requirements without heavy overhead. #CloudSovereignty #AIInfrastructure #DataStrategy #DigitalPolicy #SovereignCloud #AIGovernance #Skills #PublicSectorInnovation #digitaltransformation https://lnkd.in/efvsdpmN

This list of free public procurement courses has just been updated to include the Islamic Development Bank's certificated project performance courses in English, French, Arabic and Russian: https://lnkd.in/gxvxwy6C #publicprocurement #procurementprofessionalisation #eLearning #MDB #freecourses Globaltraid Sarah Cotgreave FCIPS