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French-Kiwi News | The launch of Gaia-X, A European Cloud Infrastructure and Data Ecosystem

Prepared by: NewZealand Embassy Berlin, with input from Embassies in Brussels and Paris

GAIA-X can best be understood as a project that seeks to link existing (and newly created) clouds together in a network, so that data silos from different economic sectors and different companies in Europe are connected and made accessible to other users.

If the project aims to address Europe’s current reliance in digital infrastructure on a few major non-European corporations, it also wants to differentiate itself by requiring users to sign up to the principles of European data protection, openness, transparency, etc.

Reed the full report here