An interview with Helko Lehmann, Director of Innovation, IMC AG It’s not only the health system that’s facing numerous challenges in digitalisation; our education system is also struggling with countless obstacles. In this interview, consortium leader Helko Lehmann explains how the Gaia-X funded project MERLOT is developing a secure data…Read More
Gaia-X Blog Series
The Eclipse Foundation Takes Over Gaia-X Federation Services: More Cross-Linking for Communities for Digital Sovereignty
An interview with Michael Plagge, Ecosystem Development Director, Eclipse Foundation Almost all open-source digital sovereignty projects are now with Europe’s largest open-source foundation. In future, the Eclipse Foundation will also moderate the developer community for the Gaia-X Federation Services. According to Michael Plagge, Ecosystem Development Director, the individual projects are…Read More
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
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
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
An interview with Dr. Shalini Sahoo, Scientific Director at Bechtle AG What does it take for us to trust digitalised public administration? According to designer and philosopher Dr Shalini Sahoo, citizens need to be in a position to control their data, rather than the other way around. As Scientific Director…Read More
An interview with Andreas Baur, Political Scientist Andreas Baur conducts research in Tübingen and Amsterdam on the (geo)political framework conditions for the cloud. The political scientist is convinced: Regulation that disregards technology will not work. In the interview, he reveals how political concepts are embedded in technology and why initiatives…Read More
An interview with Emma Wehrwein, Project Lead GXFS The momentum for Gaia-X is growing steadily. More and more companies and teams across Europe are joining the initiative. The first pilot projects are underway. But the complexity also gives rise to a lot of questions. Insider Emma Wehrwein from eco –…Read More
How is Gaia-X managing to make the leap forward from working groups and concept papers? Answers are provided by a study commissioned by eco – Association of the Internet Industry. Five facts, that demonstrate just how far the preliminary work on the first Gaia-X data spaces has progressed. Impression from…Read More