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Europe's Quest for Digital Sovereignty: GAIA-X as a Case Study [1]

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Europe's Quest for Digital Sovereignty: GAIA-X as a Case Study

[3]
Authors:
Simona Autolitano [4]
Agnieszka Pawlowska [5]
01/04/2021

There is currently much discussion about “digital sovereignty” in Europe. While the term encompasses very diverse connotations, it refers to a broad concept involving data, technological, regulatory and political elements. Cloud computing represents one example of the concrete materialisation of the European Union’s quest for “digital sovereignty” – especially through the development of its GAIA-X project. It is too early to assess whether or not GAIA-X will definitively help the Union to achieve this much-desired goal; however, some challenges have already emerged along the way. Looking to the future, if the EU wants to achieve “digital sovereignty”, a different strategy to the one currently under discussion will be needed.

Study produced as part of the project “La geopolitica del digitale”, March 2021.

iaip2114.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Rome, IAI, March 2021, 22 p.
  • In:
    IAI Papers [2]
  • Issue

    21|14
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    978-88-9368-188-9

Table of contents

Introduction
1. Towards a definition of European “digital sovereignty”
2. The rise of a “sovereign cloud” in Europe
2.1 France
2.2 Germany
2.3 The European Union
3. GAIA-X: A practical approach towards European “digital sovereignty”
3.1 The GAIA-X Initiative
3.2 GAIA-X: A true EU “sovereign cloud”?
Conclusion
References


Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c03/europes-quest-digital-sovereignty-gaia-x-case-study

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c03/europes-quest-digital-sovereignty-gaia-x-case-study [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/iai-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaip2114.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/simona-autolitano [5] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/agnieszka-pawlowska