Sovereignty Tools

Digital sovereignty is easy to talk about and hard to pin down. Most of the conversation stays at the level of principle: control your data, avoid lock-in, keep your options open. None of that tells a specific organization where it actually stands, or what it would have to do next.

These tools close that gap. They are free instruments OpenTechHub builds and maintains, and they do the one thing reading cannot: they take your own situation as input and hand back a result you can act on. Each runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter leaves your machine, and neither needs an account.

Digital Sovereignty Self-Assessment

Where does your organization stand?

The EU built a framework for exactly this question, the Cloud Sovereignty Framework, which scores an organization across eight dimensions on a maturity scale from zero to four. The questions are concrete: can you switch providers within a year, could a foreign government compel access to your data, do you know what is in your software supply chain, would the business survive if your cloud provider went dark tomorrow.

The assessment walks you through those eight dimensions in about twenty minutes and explains why each one matters before you answer. At the end you get a profile showing where you are strong and where the gaps are, which you can export as a PDF or share by link.

OSPO Roadmap

What do you have to own once the vendor is gone?

Cancel a proprietary contract and the software leaves. The work it was quietly doing does not. That license fee also paid for people to keep the whole thing safe, legal, and pointed in the right direction, and when the vendor goes, that work lands on you.

The OSPO Roadmap sets it out plainly. It maps the jobs you take on when you run your own technology: deciding what you standardize on, staying on the right side of licenses and the law, keeping everything patched and secure, and the one almost everyone skips, giving back to the open projects you now depend on. Let those weaken and your own systems are the ones exposed. Each job runs from the first small step to a fully built-out practice, so you see the whole road and not just the tile in front of you. Some of these you keep in-house and some you hand to a partner, but you have to see the whole list before you can split it.

The name tends to make people picture a new department, headcount, and a budget that never gets approved. It is just a label for work that does not wait for a department to exist. Mark where you honestly stand on each job, watch the picture fill in, and share it with whoever owns the next piece.

Two questions, not one

One tool shows you where you stand. The other shows you what you have to own. Neither will do the work for you. But you cannot manage what you cannot see, and you cannot hand out a job nobody has named.