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Infrastructure Sovereignty and Humanitarian Neutrality: Commercial, Legal, and Political Risks of Jurisdictional Dependency in Humanitarian Digital Infrastructure

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Thomas Byrnes

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MarketImpact Working Paper WP-2026-03. This working paper examines how humanitarian digital infrastructure dependency can become an access and perceived-neutrality risk where critical workflows rely on providers subject to foreign legal compulsion, commercial discretion, sanctions, export controls, and national-security authorities. It develops a three-part framework of commercial, legal, and political sovereignty risk and closes with practical steps for jurisdictional review, sensitive-data separation, infrastructure diversification, portable AI-methodology training, and contingency planning.

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MarketImpact Working Paper WP-2026-03. This working paper examines how humanitarian digital infrastructure dependency can become an access and perceived-neutrality risk where critical workflows rely on providers subject to foreign legal compulsion, commercial discretion, sanctions, export controls, and national-security authorities. It develops a three-part framework of commercial, legal, and political sovereignty risk and closes with practical steps for jurisdictional review, sensitive-data separation, infrastructure diversification, portable AI-methodology training, and contingency planning.

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