Let's build the third digital path together: ethical, open and sovereign

“It’s not because you share your digital commons that you lost them. It means that we can build all together our own digital sovereignty”

This Monday, October 27, our President Alexandre Zapolsky took part in the round‑table of the Vietnam‑European Digital Cooperation Forum, within the framework of the Vietnam International Digital Week (VIDW)!

Alongside Mr. Ho Duc Thang (Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology), Professor Laurent El Ghaoui (VinUni), Mr. Juha Heikkilä (European AI Office) and Ms. Le Thai Ha (VinFuture Foundation), he voiced a strong conviction: digital sovereignty is not owned, it is shared.

Open source is not just a matter of code, but a state of mind, our President recalled:

"When you have a good idea, you can share this idea with anyone and you don’t close this idea. I mean, you empower someone with this idea. And, open source is all about sharing idea, innovation, code..."

A clear message in a global context where technology tends to retreat behind the walls of great powers. In response, France, Europe and Vietnam have a crucial role to play: to build a cooperative digital ecosystem, based on commons, transparency, and a collective independence from the United States and China.

This is the path we have chosen at LINAGORA, that of a third digital power—ethical, open and universal.

Thank you to the organizers and all participants of the Vietnam‑European Digital Cooperation Forum for these fascinating exchanges. Together, let’s grow what we share: the digital common good.