Tag: Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty is becoming a key factor in a government's ability to act. Authorities must enable digital innovation while retaining control over data, technologies, and dependencies. This article shows why sovereign IT architectures are crucial for competitiveness and security and how mgm, as a European software partner, is contributing to this.

The question of how companies will choose their IT and software partners in the future is becoming increasingly important in light of global developments. Nils Gralfs and Olaf Terhorst from mgm consulting partners shed light on the topic of digital sovereignty from two perspectives – in a pro-and-con debate with plenty of practical examples, personal anecdotes and clear arguments. Listen now!

Can the German administration become more independent of individual providers and thus more digitally sovereign through open source software (OSS)? This question was the focus of the "Behörden Spiegel"* web panel "Digital Sovereignty". mgm CEO Hamarz Mehmanesh gave the keynote speech. There was also a presentation of the planned Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) and a discussion round with representatives of the federal government, the state, local authorities and an open source trade association.

How can digital, machine-readable and forgery-proof proofs of identity for private individuals and companies look? The IDunion consortium is working on this - and other - questions of the future. mgm is now an associated partner in this important project.

The Bavarian Future Congress of Behörden Spiegel took place at the end of February under the motto "The summit in view - the rise of digital administration in the Free State". Hamarz Mehmanesh, founder and CEO of mgm, discussed digital sovereignty in one of the ten expert forums.