The Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI) is a comparative index developed by the BRICS Tech Forum, GEPSI UnB, and GETIP USP to measure how countries accumulate and exercise technological power within the contemporary international order. The project evaluates more than 80 countries across four core dimensions — hardware, software, cognition, and governance — identifying capacities for autonomy, dependency, and strategic coordination.

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By transforming digital sovereignty into a comparable metric, the DSI offers a strategic tool for researchers, policymakers, companies, multilateral institutions, and Global South actors seeking to understand structural vulnerabilities, national capabilities, and power disputes within the contemporary technological environment. The index aims to support the formulation of development, governance, and autonomy strategies in a context marked by the global concentration of infrastructure, data, and computational capacity.

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