Taking control of data: India's quest for digital sovereignty and security

In a geopolitically charged tech landscape, digital sovereignty is crucial for India to safeguard its future-and that of its citizens

With 108 unicorns and a booming tech sector, digital adoption in India is accelerating fast, despite its vast and unique demographics, marked by stark contrasts. The transformative ability of the blockbuster ABCD technologies — or artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Cloud adoption, and data analytics — is undisputed, and they are increasingly seeping into our daily lives. We can no longer be complacent about AI’s impact on us, whether in retail and hospitals, agriculture or our defence systems. Yet one of the pressing challenges remains largely unresolved—data sovereignty. As technology continues to reshape the global economic order, India must realign its