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#Germany is falling behind around digital technologies, says the KfW, Germany's state-owned investment and development bank, in a their latest study. Looking at various indicators Germany is clearly behind the US (scientific publications, patents), China (scientific publications), and Japan (patents). Now the number of publications does not necessarily talk to their quality, let alone their impact; software patents are a dubious concept at best; and Germany is quite smaller than the the US or China. Still, even within the European Union Germany only ranks 7th as it comes to use of Artificial Intelligence, 10th in terms of data analytics, and 13th around cloud computing. Countries like Sweden, France, and Austria invest more than twice as much of their GDP into IT technologies, leading KfW to recommend a doubling, if not tripling of said investments. These are unhealthy indicators for Europe's largest economy. Quid nunc, as the old Romans would say? There is not one magic silver bullet, though there are several areas to leverage: 1. Germany still is strong in research and academic education, including those areas mentioned above. 2. "Mittelstand" (medium sized enterprises, which in Germany can easily mean a few thousand employees and a billion or more in annual revenue) has proven a strong innovation driver - with increasing open source adoption and even active engagement. 3. Let's not forget that with companies and projects like SUSE, ownCloud, Nextcloud, Univention and initiatives like Sovereign Cloud Stack and Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS) Germany is strong around open source and the collaboration, innovation, and digital sovereignty it can bring. There are good foundations in place. It is a question of political will which - subtle hint - includes becoming more serious about loosening dependencies on proprietary technologies and embracing open source and with that sovereignty, resilience, and innovation. https://lnkd.in/g6XvtcgA #OpenSource #Innovation #DigitalSovereignty #Resilience #Collaboration Holger Dyroff Kurt Garloff