Hello Digital Autonomy

I never really liked the term Digital Sovereignty for the way I have built my digital presence. Sovereignty is about nations. Big, bureaucratic, faceless organisations. It feels heavy. Burdensome. Static. The real question behind the term is a bit more complex. “How much of your IT stack do you own, control, understand? Which parts of it can be exchanged with ideally zero downtime, zero migration cost and zero data loss?”. I want to switch to a term that better expresses how I aim to be in control of my digital presence. Free to do things the way I want them to be. Sharing all of it. Helping others, based on agreed values and principles. And I think I have a better term for that, a term that feels much more natural Digital Autonomy. #DigitalAutonomy derives from old greek autos (self) and nomos (law). So autonomy means the right of (a group of) people to govern itself or to organize its own activities. And that “feels” so much better to me. I use autonomy not in an excluding way, not…