GAIA-X

The GAIA-X Foundation AISBL is an international non-profit organization based in Belgium to develop a European project, led by France and Germany, to create a proposal for the next generation of a data infrastructure for Europe, and foster digital sovereignty of European users of cloud services. It is based on European values of transparency, openness, data protection and security.

GAIA-X will be opened to any industry stakeholders, including non-European organizations, agreeing to fulfill a set of Policy Rules[1] reflecting European values. This is one of the key added value of the project. Rules regarding Transparency, Reversibility, Data Protection, and Security are developed. The Non-European organizations will be welcomed, but will have to the transparent of which extraterritorial regulation they have to comply with (public statement[2] by Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economic Affairs).

First services are expected to be in place by end 2020.[2]

The already existing multiple year work of both International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) have been presented as main accelerators to develop GAIA-X rules in less than 6 months (Source: introduction talk by Hubert Tardieu[3])

GAIA-X Foundation AISBL

The legal entity of GAIA-X Foundation has been presented public June 4, 2020.[2]

The 22 founding members[2][4] are from both Germany and France, and represent Cloud providers, Cloud users, Research and trade associations: Amadeus CRS, Atos, Beckhoff Automation, Bosch, BMW, CISPE, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, Docaposte, EDF, Fraunhofer, German Edge Cloud, Institut Mines Telecom, International Data Spaces Association, Orange, 3DS Outscale, OVHcloud, PlusServer, Safran, SAP, Scaleway and Siemens.

The entity is presented as an international non-profit association (AISBL, Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif), to be registered in Belgium (talk by Thomas Hahn, Siemens, and Alban Schmutz, OVHcloud & CISPE:[3]).

Political support

GAIA-X has been initiated as a project by the German Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier, immediately supported by the French Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire during the summer 2019.[2]

A first common press release from Peter Altmaier and Bruno Le Maire was issued in October 2019.[5]

A first Franco-German Position Paper was published February 18, 2020.[6]

A specific joined press conference took place with both Ministers Peter Altmaier and Bruno Le Maire in June 2020 (source: programme), including the announcement on the GAIA-X Foundation AISBL by the 22 founding members. That announcement achieved a quite broad press coverage by well-know newswire and newspapers: Reuters,[7] AFP, Politico,[8] El Pais,[9] Les Echos,[10] Business Insider,[11] TagesSpiegel,[12] Europe1[13]...

References
  1. https://www.data-infrastructure.eu/GAIAX/Redaktion/EN/Publications/gaia-x-policy-rules-and-architecture-of-standards.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2
  2. "Peter Altmaier and Bruno Le Maire present the European data infrastructure project GAIA-X". www.data-infrastructure.eu.
  3. "Livestream "GAIA-X: A Franco-German pitch towards a european data infrastructure - virtual expert forum"". www.data-infrastructure.eu.
  4. "GAIA-X Foundation: CISPE is a founding member". June 4, 2020.
  5. "Press Release on Franco-German common work on a secure and trustworthy data infrastructure". www.data-infrastructure.eu.
  6. https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/F/franco-german-position-on-gaia-x.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=10
  7. http://www.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-europe-tech%2Ffrance-germany-back-european-cloud-computing-moonshot-idUSKBN23B26B&usg=AOvVaw0jL3LEDEkefEfrPP9sEGLG
  8. "Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for 'tech sovereignty'". POLITICO. June 4, 2020.
  9. Ayuso, Silvia (June 4, 2020). "Europa lanza Gaia-X para disputar el control de la nube a Amazon, Microsoft o Google". EL PAÍS.
  10. http://www.lesechos.fr%2Ftech-medias%2Fhightech%2Fle-cloud-europeen-franco-allemand-devoile-ses-services-numeriques-souverains-1208046
  11. Aguiar, Alberto R. (June 4, 2020). "Qué es GAIA-X, la respuesta europea para dejar de depender de la nube de Amazon, Google o Microsoft que ya prepara sus primeros prototipos para 2021". Business Insider.
  12. "Wie das europäische Projekt die US-Dominanz bei Clouds beenden soll". www.tagesspiegel.de.
  13. "Gaia-X : le couple Franco-Allemand lance un "cloud" européen". Europe 1.
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