Why Australia’s tech sovereignty needs smart partnerships

Geopolitical risk, cyber threats and outages are driving a rethink of how we build, run and protect the infrastructure powering the economy, argues Mark Hile, Datacom MD, Infrastructure Products. As someone entrusted with overseeing infrastructure products for a company that acts as a tech partner to hundreds of Australian organisations, both enterprise and government, the conversation around digital resilience , sovereignty and strengthening local infrastructure and networks has never felt more urgent – or more personal. After more than a decade working closely with Datacom’s customers, I believe our sector stands at an inflection point. We must either double down on building trusted, regionally-owned technology infrastructure or risk losing strategic control to offshore interests and unc