As Paris bets that homegrown tech can replace Silicon Valley defaults across government, Chris Stokel-Walker asks whether other countries, including Britain, will follow suit A pps and platforms designed and maintained by US-based companies dominate our lives. This story was written in Microsoft Word and researched using Google Chrome. It was emailed using a Gmail account, overseen by the search engine’s parent company, Alphabet, from interviews conducted on Microsoft Teams and Zoom. It can