On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty.

The package includes two legislative proposals —the Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act— together with the European Open Source Strategy and a strategic roadmap for digitalisation and artificial intelligence in the energy sector.

This is a relevant step because it places issues such as digital autonomy, control over critical technologies and infrastructure, the reduction of dependencies on providers, and the strategic role of open source at the heart of the European debate.

In this context, the geospatial dimension must be a key part of technological sovereignty. Much of the information managed by administrations, companies and public organisations has a territorial component. Therefore, spatial data infrastructures, geoportals, corporate GIS systems, digital twins, mobile field applications and territorial analysis platforms are part of the critical digital infrastructure of many organisations. Decisions in areas such as defence, emergencies, urban planning, environment, mobility, agriculture, tourism, energy and infrastructure management are based on them.

Technological sovereignty also means controlling geographic data, map services, interoperability standards, APIs, publishing platforms and the ability to evolve systems without critical dependencies.

Open source software and open standards are a practical way to move in that direction: more autonomy, more transparency, more reuse and more resilience.

gvSIG was born precisely with this vision: to build open, interoperable and sustainable geospatial technology at the service of administrations, organisations and companies that need to maintain control over their territorial information. European technological sovereignty is also built from the territory.