Weaponizing Electronic Services!

Technology has penetrated everything as if it were the planet's air; it is everywhere around us by the grace of God, for life without it is as if you were suffocating in the depths of a fathomless sea covered by waves. The individual needs to exert great effort in order to live the ways of comfort and progress without technology, and reality confirms that without it we wander in a barren land with no plant and no fruit. Despite that, many still belittle the importance of information technology management, considering it a secondary thing among ancillary services!

Benefits and Shaded Windows

There is no doubt that there are many benefits from converting digital systems into cloud services, but preventing the simplest features and characteristics from being available in the traditional editions of email, database systems, data processors, and other systems that are still used by hundreds of thousands within the governmental and private sectors around the world has formed a struggle with the cloud providers to keep data "as much as possible" within private servers, as the cloud currents and the agenda entailed in them insist only on continuing to bury and diminish the standing of traditional services for realistic reasons and others with unrealistic dimensions.

The Danger of Double Standards

Many countries have become aware of this great danger of excessive reliance on cloud services and other electronic services, especially in the case where the primary control device is not in the hands of the country itself but in the hands of another country, which may make you taste the bitterness of service interruption as happened with Huawei and today in Russia. Services were cut off even from individuals, including essential services such as payment, sales and purchasing services, financial services and transfers, and even YouTube, social networks, and others, which clearly reflected the double standards.

Technical Migration and Warding Off Excessive Reliance

The data confirms that there is an influx and a migration at the beginning of the leakage of exclusive services from America's Silicon Valley to head toward all poles and countries, due to the great danger posed by the monopolization of services by Uncle Sam. The somewhat belated global trend has shifted to relying on and supporting national institutions and offering effective alternatives to guarantee the continuity of the ways of digital life without excessive reliance on technologies that claim to be global and neutral.

The Politicization of Technology

The future of technology and human progress is contingent on conditions and pillars, the most important of which is complete neutrality and never taking sides. Politicizing digital services as a weapon and as soft power for attack or deterrence is a matter that limits the human progress that was off to a wonderful start. But what is happening now in terms of the reactions and stances of technology companies portends a decline in the speed of progress in potential technical fields and uses.

The Scarcity of Digital Alternatives and the Challenges

There is a great scarcity of digital alternatives, and we find that many digital products are quasi-monopolized. The discussion here is about the entire technical chain, from natural and human resources, manufacturing, programmers, developers, producers, designers, and directors, to the giant and simple programs, as qualitative investment in it faces many challenges. Here we find ourselves in dire need of creating generations of programmers and designers within all stages of the life of applications and systems, and of being keen to create a Silicon Valley of our own, even if it is by offering special licenses supported for years with numerous advantages of services, opportunities, and contracts to open the way for the sons of the nation to enter and fill the gaps in the markets.

Technical Isolation.. and the Russian Situation

The falling of countries and institutions into the darkness of technical isolation is, without doubt, a grave matter. Therefore, one must prepare and set the controls and recommendations that serve to protect digital life and prevent bias, especially given the enormous profits we see these companies obtaining while they hardly offer anything to the country and its people in the state. Most of them have not even hired some citizens nor contributed to plans to develop the sons of the nation. Our example here is what is hidden from many: the great digital progress of the Russian Federation, for it hardly needs any company or technical services from abroad. They have a suitable amount of advanced applications and systems, including email services, social networking, payment, video, audio, and image services, as well as excellent systems in enterprise systems such as financial and administrative management and human resources programs, and even their own broadcasting satellites, in addition to delivery, food, and e-commerce applications, and above that, Kaspersky, one of the strongest security systems in the world and in history!

Supporting and Developing National Platforms

There are a number of developers, as individuals and other small and medium-sized companies, who need communication, support, and moral—and sometimes financial—backing. They need to develop their sense of belonging and to be guided by providing alternative services that adopt the best standards and technologies and support for all systems, the most important of which is supporting PWA to avoid the danger of being banned for any reason whatsoever in the application stores.

The Poverty of the Infrastructure Environment

There is no doubt that foreign companies enjoy a great deal of support, and the greatest support is the availability of a rich infrastructure and the prerequisites that enable the opening of many hosting companies benefiting from their local internet prices. This is one of the first important chains, for in providing special packages for whoever offers an application, services, or hosting, whether by relying on the service provider's servers or their own servers, this will open the way for fast, competitive, quality services.

Curbing Outsourcing

Outsourcing electronic services has many benefits and many negatives and harms to countries, since they will lack the creation of opportunities to compensate for the great shortage in demand for services. We see the wonder that the prices of some outsourcing services are more expensive than the prices of providing them locally and nationally, and this contributes to demolishing the great efforts exerted in developing many national sectors.

The Way Out of Global Pledges

One of the ways out may be to pressure global companies to sign pledges of the mandatory continuity of the services provided regardless of any external decisions for any reason whatsoever. But this may not be an available option for everyone and may enter into other legal challenges.

The Independent Branches Solution

One of the ways out and guarantees for countries may be to convert the branches of global companies into nationally and administratively independent companies that are partially financially affiliated with the parent company, an example being "LinkContext London, an independent company but partially financially affiliated with LinkContext UAE." This matter as well may require much acceptance and many legal agreements.