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Where are the digital sovereignty jobs? (fedia.io)
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The term "digital sovereignty" is popular but where are the jobs? The EU and its member states are supposedly unlocking billions in funding to support it, but when I search for "digital sovereignty" jobs, I find next to nothing.

Is digital sovereignty really happening or is just being hyped with nothing behind it?

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[-] kayazere@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I am a software developer in Germany and have also been wondering where are the jobs for creating the Linux software to replace Windows software. So far I have seen hardly any.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

I've been using Linux as my desktop OS for a quarter of a century. Most of said software wasn't written specifically in Germany, but unless someone's all "ESR isn't German, so I'm not going to use fetchmail" or something like that, I'd think that most bases are covered.

I think that the only real exception is commercial video games.

Most commercial video games I play are PE executables rather than ELF, but Proton runs 'em pretty seamlessly under Steam, so...shrugs They also aren't generally open-source, but I doubt that video games are really on anyone's sovereignty radar.

Though if the Bundesregierung is gonna go fund some devs to implement a Linux, German Fallout-type open-world game, I'd totally buy that.

Hmm. Now that I'm thinking about it, Russia apparently actually did have some program to fund the creation of Russian video games that I remember a while back.

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YouTube: The Russian state spends $10,000,000 to make the worst RPG of 2024

https://theins.press/en/society/259526

Games of the throne. How the Kremlin funds “patriotic” gamedev

For the first time Russia is pouring government funds into the production of computer games with a patriotic slant. Several projects are already underway, including games based on the Time of Troubles, a Russian private military company in Africa, and two school children named Vera and Foma who travel through Russian history.

[-] eicker@lemmy.world 36 points 8 hours ago

Because digital sovereignty isn’t a job title, it’s a procurement strategy: The hiring shows up as cloud engineers, cybersecurity, Linux, semiconductor, networking, public sector IT and compliance roles. The money is real, but it mostly flows through existing industries rather than creating a shiny new profession.

[-] Jobe@feddit.org 21 points 9 hours ago

Digital sovereignty is a concept, it literally just means software developed in europe. GNOME and KDE have both received funding in the name of digital sovereignty, for example.

[-] Pip@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

Questions like this make me think you are a troll.

[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Digital sovereignty? That's me. I'm the King of the Internets. Piss off.

[-] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 8 hours ago

It is happening as a transition with existing personnel and maybe new contracts with consultants and agencies. They might offer new jobs under terms like “cloud native developer” and put a later emphasis in European technologies.

[-] frischkaesbagett@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

I'd look into the services supported by funding institutions and look at their career portal.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago

No, it's not hype, but in many cases a straight out lie. We are governed by corrupt sell-outs while defunding education and a 24/7 stream of brain rot has the majority of voters blame (often illusionary) minorities while getting openly fucked by corporations and their governments.

They cry about digital sovereignity while buying solutions from Microsoft's or Google's EuRoPeAn cloud solutions that are a scam with zero sovereignity.

They talk about sovereign chip development while defunding education and research and subsidizing Intel.

They lament about a need for sovereign AI while just pushing surveilance and abolishing data protection so they can sell all our data to the big US companies... and now Palantir on top.

Oh and of course we totally need more US run data centers for those "sovereign" cloud and AI solutiuns somehow.

[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

Look into firms that do government consulting. They are the ones getting the contracts.

Most of them are American.

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't think it really is a job. Maybe a "european cloud" consultant or something. It is mostly a management decision and that creates shifting priorities for existing network and application admins. Also devops and cloud engineers.

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