Europe shows highest digital and AI sovereignty levels: report

Accenture measured nations’ ability to apply controls across AI, data, and cybersecurity models.

Europe recorded the highest digital and artificial intelligence (AI) sovereignty, or the ability to apply sovereign controls over hardware, data, compute, cloud, cybersecurity, and AI models.

Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and France all scored above average in Accenture’s Sovereignty Maturity Index.

Sovereign maturity was most pronounced in the aerospace and defense sectors, followed closely by the government and public sector, and health.

Canada is the only non-European country to match that performance, whilst Saudi Arabia leads in the Middle East, Accenture said.

In the index, Accenture conducted a global survey of 1,928 organisations across 28 countries and 18 industries to measure their awareness, motivations, challenges, and maturity in digital core technologies.

Respondents were CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data, AI, and Risk Officers from both public and private sectors from countries Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the Netherlands, amongst others.