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New Tool: Digital Sovereignty Self-Assessment

How dependent is your organization on technology you don't control? Use our free self-assessment tool based on the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework to measure your maturity across 8 key dimensions.

New Tool: Digital Sovereignty Self-Assessment

Everybody is talking about "Digital Sovereignty", but how can you actually measure this?

How can you clairify how dependent a typical organization is on technology it doesn't control?

Turns out, the EU already built a framework for answering exactly that.

It's called the "Cloud Sovereignty Framework", and it scores organizations across 8 dimensions on a 0-4 maturity scale (SEAL: Sovereignty Effectiveness Assurance Levels). The dimensions are practical:

Working your way through the official documentation is pretty cumbersome, so I built a self-assessment tool based on this framework.

32 questions. 20 minutes. Everything runs in your browser, so no data ever leaves your machine. Each question tells you why it matters before you answer.

When you're done, you get a radar chart showing your profile across all 8 dimensions, a breakdown of where you're strong, and specific recommendations for your gaps. You can export it as a PDF or share the results via a link.

No account needed. No email gate. Just the assessment.

🔗 Head over to Tools or access the Self-Assessment here.

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