In June 2025, I gave the keynote “Community-led Digital Sovereignty: Insights and Lessons from an Indigenous Initiative in Remote Canada” at the International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) in Vienna. Since the recently published report focused mainly on the panel discussions, I wanted to briefly share some of the keynote’s central themes here as well.
My keynote drew on more than eight years of ethnographic fieldwork with the Indigenous-owned network organization KO-KNET in Northwestern Ontario, Canada (e.g. Budka 2015).
