Digital Sovereignty

Every country needs some technological independence, meaning the ability to build and fix its own important systems. We see it as being able to stand on our own. It has nothing to do with nationalism.

When all of a country's technology comes from outside, it can't fix it when it breaks or adapt it to local needs. It inherits other countries' rules and priorities, and skills and knowledge flow out of the country.

We don't need to build everything from scratch, and it wouldn't be practical. We need local engineers, designers and product people who understand both the technology and the place. We also need to own the systems where control matters most, like payments, identity and networks.

We should contribute to the open-source projects we depend on. And we should know where our data lives, with options to keep it in the country.

We can't change all of this at once, so we started with concrete things. We make affordable computers for students and developers, and payment tools that work with local banks. We adapt open-source software for Khmer, and we run training that builds real skills. Each step makes the next one possible.

This is work for a generation, and some of it will take decades. We have started, and we keep at it.