Overview
- Reports say the court is close to signing with Germany’s Zendis to roll out the OpenDesk suite across about 1,800 workstations.
- ICC registrar and IT lead Osvaldo Zavala Giler said the institution must reduce dependencies to strengthen technological autonomy despite short‑term costs and inconvenience.
- The planned shift is driven by sanctions concerns, including this year’s loss of access to Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s Microsoft email, after which he temporarily used Proton.
- Microsoft executive Brad Smith characterized the email incident as isolated and said the company reviewed internal procedures to prevent a recurrence.
- The prospective migration fits a broader European turn toward open‑source, sovereign IT solutions, while Khan separately remains on leave during an internal misconduct investigation.