Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs
Polish government ministry that would run the country's proposed technological sovereignty assessment for public contracts.
Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs would run the technological sovereignty test Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on 21 July 2026 for major public-sector technology contracts.
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Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs is the government department responsible for the country's digital policy, standing behind Prime Minister Donald Tusk's public statements on technology sovereignty.
It set up an Open Source Team in early 2026 to support public institutions adopting open source software, part of a wider push for digital independence that continued with the technological sovereignty test Tusk announced on 21 July 2026, which will assess major public-sector technology purchases for vendor dependence, control over critical systems and data access risk .
Poland's stated goal is to build domestic alternatives covering roughly 20 to 30 percent of strategic technology segments, including government cloud services, databases and enterprise systems, while accepting that a complete replacement of US technology providers is neither feasible nor desirable, placing the ministry's work within a wider European debate about reducing dependence on a small number of foreign digital infrastructure and AI suppliers.