Europe is internet hosting its first-ever European Summit on Digital Sovereignty. Invited by the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Authorities Modernisation, leaders from politics, public administration, business, and academia throughout the continent are convening to form methods for a sovereign and innovation-driven Europe.
Gaia-X is featured as considered one of six flagship initiatives, introduced by way of its personal interactive pavilion.
The undertaking illustrates how sovereign knowledge trade can unlock innovation, advance local weather targets, and create financial worth.
Actual-world use circumstances, such because the Neighborhood-X municipal knowledge area within the German village of Etteln (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Gaia-X’s collaboration with France’s Business Information Area initiative Data4Industry-X display that Europe’s digital sovereignty is already turning into actuality.
Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary on the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Authorities Modernisation, stresses the strategic significance of interoperable, sovereign knowledge areas:
Gaia-X drives digital innovation and strengthens sovereignty. On the identical time, it allows shut collaboration between enterprise, science, and the general public sector. This alliance is crucial to share knowledge sovereignly throughout industries and sectors. Solely on this approach can we allow the subsequent stage of innovation.
Ulrich Ahle, CEO of the Gaia-X European Affiliation for Information and Cloud (AISBL), reinforces this message:
Digital sovereignty is created by way of belief, openness and customary requirements. Gaia-X creates a basis on which knowledge areas can perform interoperably and securely – in order that Europe not solely preserves knowledge, but in addition actively develops its progressive power and competitiveness. That is demonstrated right here within the sensible examples that mark the transition from concepts to actual impression.
Dr. Abel Reiberg, Head of the Gaia-X Hub Germany, provides:
Gaia-X lays the inspiration for a digital Europe that makes use of its knowledge sovereignly. The upcoming Digital Summit offers an essential alternative to collectively display how open, safe, and interoperable knowledge areas could make enterprise and society extra resilient and progressive.
About Gaia-X Hub Germany
Since its basis in 2020, Gaia-X Hub Germany has been the central level of contact for anybody within the trade of knowledge in open knowledge ecosystems. Its purpose is to assist the event of a global knowledge financial system that’s consistent with European values and financial constructions. The Gaia-X Hub promotes the event and use of Gaia-X in Germany. As a networking platform, the Hub brings collectively representatives from science, enterprise, politics and society to trade experiences, acquire insights and put them into observe collectively. Along with the German Gaia X Hub, there are at present 19 different nationwide hubs inside the EU and seven outdoors Europe.
The Digital Summit continues in Portugal from the nineteenth – twenty first November.
