13 Mar

American tech powers Poland’s digital infrastructure

Poland’s digital infrastructure is deeply intertwined with technologies developed by American corporations. While this reliance has enabled rapid modernisation, experts warn it also creates structural vulnerabilities for public administration, data governance, and long-term technological sovereignty.

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Poland’s digital infrastructure is deeply intertwined with technologies developed by American corporations. While this reliance has enabled rapid modernisation, experts warn it also creates structural vulnerabilities for public administration, data governance, and long-term technological sovereignty.

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Open any government laptop in Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, or Warsaw and the chances are overwhelming that it runs Windows, logs into Microsoft 365, and stores its files in an American cloud. This is not an accident of history but the result of decades of procurement decisions, institutional inertia, and the sheer dominance of Silicon Valley.

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Not only Hungary but all of Europe depends on American information technology, and this dependence has only deepened with the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services. Although the European Union recognised the problem long ago, eliminating this reliance across the continent, as well as within the Hungarian government, public administration, and business sector, could take decades.

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While technologies from communist China do not enjoy a particularly good reputation in Czechia and are the subject of tense political debates, there is far less discussion about the country’s dependence on American technologies in public administration and critical infrastructure. However, the debate has begun to develop at the European level.

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