With the ever-growing importance of digitalization and data in all areas of society, digital sovereignty becomes a necessity to ensure economic growth and social equity in Europe. To keep up with the dynamics of digitalization, data must be shared, but users, whether citizens or companies, often lose control of their data when they have it processed by another organization. The dominant providers come from the USA and China; European alternatives do not exist or are not sufficiently attractive. Current monopoly structures impair participation in new business models and hinder innovation.
Europe has a traditionally very cooperative industry, with many small and medium sized enterprises. Europe must develop its own strategies and capabilities based on European values and principles. By enabling open and fair data-ecosystems, the goal is to preventing vendor-lock-ins and support interoperability and flexibility to eventually enable a global competitive, secure and trustful data economy.
Gaia-X is a European initiative supporting this strategy to enable digital sovereignty of the end-users by decreasing dependency for business stakeholders and enabling new global competitive business models.
This session will outline the strategic dimension of the new evolving data-driven economy for Austria and the EU and present building blocks of the Gaia-X ecosystem, as well as best practise activities and projects.
Panel Discussion:
- Helmut Leopold (Moderator) will moderate the session and will provide an introduction to the panel discussion.
- Mario Drobics will introduce the general concepts and technical elements of the Gaia-X framework. This will cover the general architecture, the underlying workflows and the compliance management, as well as an outlook to the development roadmap.
- Veronika Siska provides an overview of the current dataspace landscape from a technical perspective, including initiatives, frameworks, standards and software tools; as well as their corresponding projects.
- Christian Tauber presents an overview of the current status of the Gaia-X Clearing Houses.
- Thomas Trautner provides an insight to the development of the Gaia-X light-house project EuProGigant.