Digital sovereignty has moved from policy papers to the center of global power conversations.

At Davos and beyond, leaders are no longer debating whether digital sovereignty matters. That question is settled. The real issue now is speed—how fast nations can build sovereign AI, sovereign cloud, and sovereign data infrastructure, and what happens if they don’t.

In this episode of Shimmy Says, Shimmy explores why digital sovereignty has become inseparable from national sovereignty—and why that framing is incomplete.

As countries race to control their digital futures, individuals risk losing control of their own. Surveillance, opaque platforms, and algorithmic decision-making are becoming default conditions of digital life. That shift may be understandable at a national level—but it raises uncomfortable questions about personal autonomy, privacy, and consent.

Digital sovereignty isn’t just about borders.
It’s about people.

Because in a fragmented digital world, sovereignty can’t stop at the nation-state. It has to extend all the way down to the individual.

That’s what Shimmy says.