Helsinki · European Union

European technology policy, written from inside the institutions that have to live with it.

I advise governments, regulators, and operators on artificial intelligence, digital resilience, and digital sovereignty. The writing on this site is the public companion to that work.

Portrait of Juhana Harju
Juhana Harju — Helsinki
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    Lead author, Finnish ministerial report on new technologies and digital resilience

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    Advisory board member, Statistics Finland

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    Head of Growth & Strategy, Solidate Oy

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    Former CEO of a regulated Nordic digital-assets exchange

Briefing · AI Governance 2026

AI Governance Questions for Public Leaders

Better questions, before better tools. A decision-maker checklist for public institutions, boards and leadership teams moving from AI experimentation to accountable AI governance.

Available for board briefings, leadership-team AI governance scans, procurement preparation and public-sector workshops.

§ IVision

Four positions, one argument.

That open European societies can be technologically capable, sovereign, and democratically legible in the next decade — but only if the choices being made right now are the right ones.

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    AI Governance

    Evaluation, accountability, and procurement discipline for institutions that have to be answerable for AI-shaped decisions.

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    Digital Resilience

    A measurable framework for societies that must keep functioning under stress. Drawn from the 2026 ministerial report.

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    Digital Sovereignty

    Control, code, and exit — the three operational tests for whether a digital service is truly under European control.

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    Policy & Politics

    Knowledge-based policymaking and cross-partisan technology literacy. Closing the parliamentary technology deficit.

§ IICurrent focus

What I am working on, second quarter of 2026.

Updated April 2026

  • Government

    Finalising Finland's 2026 ministerial report on new technologies and digital resilience for the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

  • Public statistics

    Advising Statistics Finland on data infrastructure and the public-information environment.

  • Operations

    Building Solidate Oy's growth and strategy function — sustainable finance tooling, Nordic.

  • Writing

    Two essays in progress on DC EDIC delivery and the operational definition of European cloud sovereignty.

§ IIISelected

Work and writing.

A ministerial report and two position essays. Each piece argues something specific and stands on its own.

  1. Ministerial report — 2026

    New Technologies and a Digitally Resilient Finland

    Commissioned report for the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications on blockchain, edge computing, IoT, and post-quantum security.

  2. Essay — sovereign cloud

    European Sovereign Cloud — Why Sovereignty Means More Than Residency

    Why data residency alone does not produce sovereignty, and what control, code, and exit actually require from procurement.

  3. Essay — European infrastructure

    DC EDIC and the Next Eighteen Months

    What the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium has to deliver before public confidence runs out.

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