Tech Nationalism Is Reshaping CIO Infrastructure Strategy
InformationWeek, Friday, March 13th, 2026
Data sovereignty rules and national cloud initiatives are forcing CIOs to rethink architecture, vendor relationships, and long-term technology strategy.
The use of technology policy to advance national economic and security interests, also known as tech nationalism, is no longer a distant geopolitical trend. It is becoming a direct operating constraint for CIOs -- and it's far more involved than many CIOs realize.
Vendors aren't much help in clearing the confusion, as they tend to blur three key concepts that CIOs need to separate, said Collin Hogue-Spears of Black Duck -- data residency, data localization and data sovereignty.