Gaia-X Federation Services have entered the next stage of expansion with the start of the second specification round of tenders. The specified trades serve to harmonize with revised architectural concepts, adapt the existing services to general technological developments and take conceptual changes from the Gaia-X community into account. The first…Read More
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A visit to Tokyo: two industrialised nations finding their way into the data age
My involvement with Gaia-X has taken me all over Europe. But economies are struggling with the digital transformation – even 9,000 kilometres from Berlin and Brussels. A comparison with an exporting nation that is just as well known for its high-quality industrial products as Germany is revealing. Given the urgency…Read More
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action launched its call for expressions of interest. It will select the projects and companies to participate in this summer’s European Twinning process. Interested partners can apply until 21 July to the public call. The IPCEI-CIS will create an efficient ‘multi-vendor cloud-edge continuum’…Read More
Gaia-X is just entering a critical phase: the sponsored projects are at the halfway point, and in less than two years’ time they aim to present operational solutions. At the same time, we are switching from contract production to community growth in our work on the Gaia-X Federation Services’ code….Read More
Which rules operators of critical infrastructures have to follow in the context of Gaia-X, is discussed in the new Gaia-X Federation Services (GXFS-DE) whitepaper “Information Security of Critical Infrastructures – Law and Regulation for Gaia-X and the Gaia-X Federation Services”. The whitepaper aims to clarify which IT infrastructures and services…Read More
Create more value digitally and give more weight to Europe as a data location: Gaia-X is driving the shift from a product-centric to a data-centric world. At Cloud Expo Europe, the IT industry discussed why the economy and society need cloud technology. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an energy crisis,…Read More

Why Europe’s Gaia-X Data Ecosystem needs a more powerful Network Infrastructure
An interview with Alina Rubina, project manager Tellus Eleven projects, funded by the German federal government to the tune of 117.4 million Euro, are currently developing prototypes for Europe’s future Gaia-X data ecosystem. They are working on business models, cloud platforms, applications, and programming interfaces. But only one of the…Read More
Gaia-X is widely accepted and positively perceived by companies. This is one result of the survey “Acceptance of Gaia-X” commissioned by eco – Association of the Internet Industry and Gaia-X Federation Services (GXFS). There is already a great understanding regarding the added values of Gaia-X and the associated opportunities to…Read More
An Interview with Kai Meinke, Co-Founder and Business Lead at deltaDAO e.V. The Mobility Competence Group will meet on 26 April in Wolfsburg under the motto Urban Mobility–Interaction of IoT and Mobility for the Implementation of Mobility Solutions (a German-language event). In the run-up to the event, we spoke to…Read More