A new global study on sovereign AI, commissioned by Dell Technologies, highlights the key challenges for Europe.
International Data Corporation (IDC), in partnership with Dell Technologies, has published a new global study exploring how European governments and public sector organisations are approaching sovereign and agentic AI and what it will take to deploy the technology at scale.
To gather data for the report, IDC surveyed 258 government IT decision-makers across several countries, including France, Germany and the UK. Respondent organisations included national civilian governments, military and defence organisations, regional, state and local government organisations, research institutes and private companies closely tied to government operations.
What was discovered is that, while leaders in Europe’s public sector are showing strong drive in accelerating modernisation through agentic AI, they also face a critical gap in the skills that are needed to operate these advanced technologies. According to the research, this is creating a significant divide between ambition and operational capacity.
Nearly 70pc of European public sector IT leaders who contributed to the report explained that their workforce is unable to keep pace with evolving technology, and more than 74pc believe agentic AI will accelerate AI adoption for government and public services.
