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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...
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Becoming Computer Science
... how a discipline grew up
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...
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Becoming Computer Science
... how a discipline grew up
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...
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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You
... if you are short of something to worry about
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...
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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You
... if you are short of something to worry about
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am not good at letting go. Perhaps the trick is to care about things, whilst accepting that neither they nor our relative success in pursuing them can be made permanent. @profserious.bsky.social contemplates ... profserious.substack.com/p/this-too-s...
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This Too Shall Pass
... letting go without giving up
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Leaders of public and third-sector organisations face not only their own organisational politics, but disputes about ideology, authority, and power. This is not comfortable territory for many leaders. @profserious.bsky.social considers … profserious.substack.com/p/leadership...
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Leadership and Big-P Politics
… the limits of management
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
10 lessons from my time at Imperial College: on science and engineering, hard work, criticism, laughter … and software … @profserious.bsky.social … profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
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What I Learned at Imperial College
… on becoming, more or less, a computer scientist
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Building the AI-enabled enterprise is not primarily a technology problem ... it is a strategy, architecture and organisational design problem. Here is the @profserious.bsky.social Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
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A Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI
10 steps towards building the AI-enabled enterprise ...
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Summer Break for @profserious.bsky.social Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/profseriou...
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@profserious Summer Break
... kick back, relax
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
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A Serious Strategy
... choosing to compete in AI
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
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A Serious Strategy
... choosing to compete in AI
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/on-technic...
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On Technical Education
... hard hat and graduation cap
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...
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Whither the Arts and Humanities?
... arguments and adaptations
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...
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Whither the Arts and Humanities?
... arguments and adaptations
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So, farewell then DSIT ... from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/so-farewel...
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So, Farewell Then
... an elegy
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...
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Toxic Tech Ecosystems
... when nobody can afford to change
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...
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Toxic Tech Ecosystems
... when nobody can afford to change
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whose cat is this? Does anybody know a good plumber? There is a fox in my garden! Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group profserious.substack.com/p/your-guide... It is too hot for @profserious.bsky.social to be entirely serious.
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Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group
... ‘there is a fox in my garden'
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
University governance is not (just) about oversight ... it is about preserving academic purpose whilst guiding institutions through profound change. @profserious.bsky.social 'On University Governance … beyond assurance' profserious.substack.com/p/on-univers...
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On University Governance
… beyond assurance
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...
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10 (+1) Lessons from Systems Dynamics & Control
... trust me, important!
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...
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Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic
… on curiosity, risk and what comes next
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...
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Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic
… on curiosity, risk and what comes next
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
'Emergencies Are Digital' … and why we need a national digital emergency capability @profserious.bsky.social considers digital preparedness as a core component of national resilience profserious.substack.com/p/emergencie...
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Emergencies Are Digital
… and why we need a national digital emergency capability
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Poems at Bedtime ... Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. A recollection of childhood, and reading to G. @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/poems-at-b...
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Poems at Bedtime
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
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Johnny Rich @johnnyrich.com · 03/06/2026
"What do you want to be when you grow up, little Johnny?" "A stalwart!" #MissionAccomplished www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
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ResearchPlus names Johnny Rich as inaugural director
Sector stalwart picked to lead new grouping in next stage of development
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Quantum Uncertainty … the physics may be clear but the future … not so much. The aim is not to cast doubt on the merits of quantum computing but to place it in context ... here is the @profserious.bsky.social assessment profserious.substack.com/p/quantum-un... #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Tech
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Quantum Uncertainty
… the physics may be clear but the future is not
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
On Choosing an Academic Career … what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands profserious.substack.com/p/on-choosin... by @profserious.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Universities
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On Choosing an Academic Career
… what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The 'Mythos Moment' ... a guide to its consequences for security practice and policy ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-mythos... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech #Security #Cyber
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The 'Mythos Moment'
... a guide to its consequences for security practice and policy
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Song of the Watchman ... when the duty falls to me ... here near my home profserious.substack.com/p/song-of-wa... ... by @profserious
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Song of Watchman
... when the watch has fallen to me
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This reminds me of the Microsoft house with a memory leak in the doorbell...
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Bureaucratic Escalator … and how it operates ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-bureau... #HigherEducation #Universities
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The Bureaucratic Escalator
… and how it operates
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
open.spotify.com/album/2YY0t0... brilliant work by Sam and MOIO
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Just A Man
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Mindfulness for Professors ... a contemplation ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/mindfulnes... #HigherEducation #Universities
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Mindfulness for Professors
... a contemplation
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
On Your Radar … why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence ... how the UK intends to link science, industry and national security capability ... @proserious.bsky.social attempts to spare you some effort with this summary analysis profserious.substack.com/p/on-your-ra...
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On Your Radar
… why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-fr... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #Academic #Innovation
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Lessons from an Innovative Organisation
... what Arizona State University can teach us about institutional innovation
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Reading China's 15th 5-Year Plan … (a technology strategy disguised as an economic plan) ... on science, industry, and power … A short guide to what the new plan tells us about China’s technological direction … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/reading-ch...
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Reading China’s 15th 5-Year Plan
... on science, industry, and power
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Is Your University Financially Sustainable? ... take this simple test ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/is-your-un... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy
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Is Your University Financially Sustainable?
... take this simple test
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A Kerfuffle … UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman) ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/a-kerfuffle
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A Kerfuffle
… UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman)
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity
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Science & Technology in National Security Strategy
... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity
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Science & Technology in National Security Strategy
... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
a really exciting and important job as Director of ResearchPlus www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU125/d...
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Director of ResearchPlus at University of Sussex
Browse professional service jobs like Director of ResearchPlus at jobs.ac.uk. Apply and access additional details about the job today.
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
City St George's v-c @profserious.bsky.social says most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened in switch to "2+2" integrated master's programmes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorten... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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Shorten UK undergraduate degrees to just two years, says v-c
Adopting a ‘two plus two’ system including longer integrated master’s would boost access, employment and the economy, argues Anthony Finkelstein
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Another Modest Proposal: 'being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick' by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/another-mo... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy
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Another Modest Proposal
being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A very special evening at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue with Sir Andras Schiff. With enormous thanks to the LJS team, CST, Dr Agnes Kaposi, and everyone who purchased tickets. Every penny raised from ticket sales will now support our vital work.
A photo of a Steinway and Sons piano on the stage in the sanctuary of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.Dr Agnes Kaposi introduces Sir Andras Schiff to the stage at a benefit concert for the Wiener Holocaust Library at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.Acting co-Directors of the Wiener Holocaust Library, Dr Christine Schmidt and Dr Barbara Warnock speak on stage at the LJS.
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Very pleased to contribute to this!
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance
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Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion
… disrupting critical thinking
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Beyond the Cloud ... how edge computing is changing where AI happens ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/beyond-the... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech
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Beyond the Cloud
... how edge computing is changing where AI happens
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Soviet Census of 1937 ... a story of truth, lies, and consequences ... by @profserious.bsky.social
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The Soviet Census of 1937
... a story of truth, lies, and consequences
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Prof Serious at 250! ... my ill-considered opinions ... marking publication of 250 @profserious.bsky.social articles. To 'celebrate' I select 25 that may (still) be of interest. Quite a lot about universities, tech, management, & some personal stuff. profserious.substack.com/p/prof-serio...
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Prof Serious at 250!
my ill-considered opinions and some other stuff …
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Technological sovereignty is discussed as if it were a problem simply of access to critical technologies. It is not. It is a resilience strategy for complex systems operating under contestation. @profserious.bsky.social sets out a UK approach. profserious.substack.com/p/technology...
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Technology & Sovereignty
… 10 strategic actions
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