The journal
Every article, by topic
Four articles on the economics of sovereignty for councils, public bodies and regulated SMEs, grouped by who they are for and the question they answer. Newest first within each topic. An article can sit under more than one topic.
Councils and public bodies
What dependence, breaches and procurement choices cost the public sector.
- What does a data breach actually cost a UK public body?
The government's survey measures breach costs for businesses and charities, not public bodies, and not detection time. What the figures do and do not tell you.
- How dependent is the UK public sector on US hyperscale cloud?
Heavily, on the figures available: government procurement data and Computer Weekly's analysis of public-sector spending. Here is what the concentration actually looks like, and why it has become a sovereignty question rather than just a procurement one.
- Digital sovereignty in economic terms: what is actually being bought and sold?
Strip away the policy language and digital sovereignty is a set of ordinary economic trade-offs: who bears the risk, who captures the value, and who is locked in.
Regulated SMEs
How a smaller regulated organisation can weigh the cost of keeping its data and AI under its own control.
- Can a regulated SME actually afford sovereign AI?
The honest framework for the cost question, without the vague reassurance or the vague fear. What actually drives the price, and how to weigh it against the cost of not doing it.
Procurement and lock-in
Switching cost, supplier concentration and what a fair comparison between options has to include.
- How dependent is the UK public sector on US hyperscale cloud?
Heavily, on the figures available: government procurement data and Computer Weekly's analysis of public-sector spending. Here is what the concentration actually looks like, and why it has become a sovereignty question rather than just a procurement one.
- Digital sovereignty in economic terms: what is actually being bought and sold?
Strip away the policy language and digital sovereignty is a set of ordinary economic trade-offs: who bears the risk, who captures the value, and who is locked in.
- Can a regulated SME actually afford sovereign AI?
The honest framework for the cost question, without the vague reassurance or the vague fear. What actually drives the price, and how to weigh it against the cost of not doing it.
Cost and risk
The cost of a breach, the cost of ownership, and how to price risk that never appears on an invoice.
- What does a data breach actually cost a UK public body?
The government's survey measures breach costs for businesses and charities, not public bodies, and not detection time. What the figures do and do not tell you.
- Can a regulated SME actually afford sovereign AI?
The honest framework for the cost question, without the vague reassurance or the vague fear. What actually drives the price, and how to weigh it against the cost of not doing it.