Advisory
Sovereignty Is Not a Procurement Decision
Strategic advisory for governments and enterprises building sovereign digital infrastructure, assessing dependency exposure, and reclaiming control of the decisions that define their autonomy.
Explore the Duology
Diagnosis, exposure, and the instruments to reclaim control.
Meet the Author
Thirty years inside the machine. Now naming what it does.
Read the Reviews
Peer-reviewed by the people this book was written for.
Thirty Years Inside The Machine
Sovereign AI strategy, dependency assessment, and policy architecture for governments and enterprises that need answers their current advisors cannot give.
The question is not whether you are sovereign. It is whether your sovereignty survives the withdrawal of the vendor that sold it to you.
The advisory industrial complex sold you managed dependency and called it transformation. This practice exists to reverse it.
Examples of What I Advise On
Sovereign AI strategy
What sovereign AI actually requires versus what you are being sold. Compute architecture, model selection, inference deployment, and the legal frameworks that determine whether your AI is yours.
Procurement and vendor governance
Force majeure clauses, data sovereignty provisions, exit rights, and the contractual dependencies that most legal teams miss because they were not trained to look.
Board and executive education
Making digital dependency visible to the people with the authority to fix it. The five control planes translated into fiduciary duty, operational risk, and strategic exposure.
The correction: open source as sovereign infrastructure
What it actually takes to build digital infrastructure that a government or enterprise controls without external permission. The cost has collapsed. The technology exists. The obstacle is not capability. It is the institutional willingness to stop renting sovereignty from the people who took it.
Digital sovereignty assessment
Testing your infrastructure, contracts, and governance against the Survivability Condition across all five control planes. Most organisations discover failures they were assured did not exist.
National digital sovereignty strategy
For governments building or rebuilding sovereign capability. Policy architecture, institutional design, and the instruments that turn a strategy document into enforceable authority.t.
Regulatory and standards advisory
When the kill switch has already been pulled. Immediate assessment, stabilisation, and the transition from dependency to sovereign operation.
National dependency exit planning
The structured transition from rented infrastructure to sovereign operation. Sequencing, timelines, risk management, and the institutional capability that must exist before the switch is flipped. Leaving dependency without a plan creates a different dependency.
Kill switch audit
Identifying every point where an external actor can revoke, suspend, or throttle your access without your consent. The list is always longer than the client expects.
Open source sovereign infrastructure
The stack that survives the Survivability Condition. From inference hardware to fine-tuned models to governance frameworks. The architecture that no vendor can revoke.
Market entry sovereign strategy
For nations building technology sectors that do not replicate the dependency they are trying to escape. Industrial policy, incentive design, and sovereign value chain architecture that attracts investment without surrendering control.
Sovereign data and AI governance frameworks
For governments designing the regulatory architecture from scratch. Data classification, AI deployment standards, procurement rules, and enforcement mechanisms that pass the Survivability Condition rather than certify the status quo.
Every engagement is built around your specific situation. If your challenge is not listed above, let's talk.
Digital Sovereignty Today is Dion Wiggins’s personal blog, publishing ~5+ posts a day on real-world events, developments, and shifts in digital power as they happen.
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How I Work
Strategic assessment
Full sovereignty exposure analysis across five control planes. Weeks or months. You get an exposure map and a remediation roadmap built for your infrastructure, jurisdiction, and risk profile.
Rapid response
Board and C-suite. Closed door, no recording. The sovereignty exposure your organisation has not been told about by the people you pay to tell you.
Due diligence support
Pre-acquisition, pre-contract, or pre-partnership. Independent sovereignty risk assessment of the technology stack, vendor dependencies, and jurisdictional exposure before you sign. The analysis your advisers are not equipped to do.
Ongoing research briefings
Periodic updates drawn from the book's evidence base and live monitoring of the sovereignty landscape. New kill switch activations, regulatory shifts, vendor moves, and emerging dependency patterns delivered before they hit the headlines.
Government advisory
Single-issue advisory. A specific contract, vendor decision, policy question, or incident. Scoped, delivered, done.
Retained advisory
Ongoing access. Policy shifts, vendor negotiations, procurement reviews, and crisis response as they happen. For governments and enterprises making sovereignty decisions in real time.
Expert witness and regulatory testimony
Legislative hearings, regulatory proceedings, and legal disputes where digital sovereignty, dependency architecture, or technology governance is at issue. Evidence-based, independently sourced, withstands cross-examination.
Sovereignty stress test
A structured simulation where your team discovers what happens when a critical vendor withdraws access, a jurisdiction compels disclosure, or a contract clause activates. Run against your actual infrastructure. The findings belong to you.
Sovereign AI readiness.
For organisations evaluating whether to build, buy, or rent AI capability. Model selection, compute requirements, data governance, and the jurisdictional constraints that determine whether your AI deployment survives the Survivability Condition. Participants leave with a go/no-go framework.
Executive workshop
Half-day or full-day. Your leadership team, your actual situation, hands-on. Participants leave with a sovereignty exposure map and a decision framework they built themselves.
Private roundtables
Invitation-only, 10 to 20 participants. Senior leaders working through a shared sovereignty challenge in real time. No presentations. Evidence on the table, decisions before the room leaves.
Multi-stakeholder facilitation
Bringing government, enterprise, and civil society to the same table on sovereignty questions where no single actor holds the full picture. Structured sessions that produce joint frameworks, not joint statements.
Five control plane audit workshop
Your procurement, legal, technical, and governance teams in one room, working through your real contracts and infrastructure against all five planes. Cross-functional exposure that no single department can see alone.
Every engagement is independent. I do not represent vendors, platforms, or service providers.
I do not accept referral fees, affiliate arrangements, or sponsorship.
The advice is evidence-based, unpurchased, and built on the same evidentiary standard as the books.