Around the world, discussions about digital sovereignty are intensifying. Governments, institutions, companies and civil society are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of controlling their own digital infrastructure. From concerns about data protection and vendor lock-in to questions of political autonomy, the topic has moved from niche circles to mainstream policy debates. In our new Digital Sovereignty Index, we show how countries compare in digital independence!
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Nextcloud developed the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a simple metric to illustrate how much self hosted collaboration applications are actively used across nearly 60 countries. It represents the relative amount of deployments of self-hosted productivity & collaboration tools per 100,000 citizens, compared to other countries.
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Here is a more detailed description: https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-index-how-countries-compare-in-digital-independence/
Isn’t that just an artifact of Hetzner having a big datacenter in Helsinki?
I wonder how they tracked this because I assume anyone else self-hosting does the same as me and turns off usage analytics on everything immediately
According to their website, they count public IP addresses hosting a list of services using shodan.
“We use data from the internet scanner Shodan.io, a search engine for publicly accessible servers. For each of the selected applications, we count the number of IP addresses per country that visibly run the software (based on html signatures and metadata)…” https://dsi.nextcloud.com/
So it’s just all the people running nextcloud on the Hetzner datacentre in Helsinki lol
@9point6 that’s a bold assumption. You do something few people do and still think most people think like you?
You have fallen for one of the major fallacies: The idea that one’s own viewpoint is “normal”.
I say this because of the mindset that typically drives many to self-host—wanting to get away from overbearing tracking amongst other reasons
I get that from all of the posts in the self hosting community on here with that sentiment, not just my own views
Would be interesting to see this with EU (or EEA) combined. As a starting point, largely same rules apply and intra-EU dependency is probably far preferable than depending on less friendly jurisdictions. (And short term it’s far more realistic than a leap to complete autonomy.)
Sounds cool but also a bit meaningless? What do we count as self hosted, just citizens hosting personal stuff or are we counting company infrastructure? Because I think the latter is much more important, 90% of personally self hosted stuff is for 1 person and maybe their family and friends, which doesn’t really scale and isn’t something we need to necessarily strive for. I self host, but I don’t think we can expect the average Joe to as well.
