An interview with Ernst Stöckl-Pukall, Head of Division for Digitalisation and Industry 4.0 at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection The inventors of the cloud all come from the US digital economy: They run search engines and social networks, e-commerce platforms and software groups. The innovators…Read More
Gaia-X Blog Series
That Europe is lagging behind in digital technologies already seems like its natural state to many. The announcement of state-funded projects earns little more than routine ridicule – especially when the name of the project borrows from mythical figures. From the very beginning, Gaia-X has been given unflattering labels –…Read More
An interview with Harald Wagener, Head of Cloud and IT at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité A project headed by the Berlin Charité aims to make data from our smartwatches and fitness apps usable for personalised therapies. The team responsible, led by Harald Wagener, Head of Cloud and…Read More
An interview with Jann Wendt, CEO, north.io and Marispace-X consortium partner Over 70 Gaia-X pilot use cases are currently developing the technical requirements for Europe’s future cloud ecosystem. The consortium for “Smart Maritime Sensor Data Space X”, or Marispace-X for short, is exploring what is probably the most inaccessible of…Read More
Cloud Computing has turned the decentralized idea of the internet into the opposite
An interview with Peter Kraemer, Head of Gaia-X Hub Germany Peter Kraemer heads one of the most important hubs in the emerging data ecosystem for Europe: the Gaia-X Hub Germany. Kraemer, who has a degree in sinology and who speaks fluent English and Chinese, works for the German Academy of…Read More
Despite initial reservations, Gaia-X could become the next-generation cloud infrastructure. If successful, the initiative will provide a sustainable boost to the data economy in Europe. But what exactly do the initiators want to achieve with Gaia-X? An analysis. Europe is building its digital infrastructure for the data age Cloud computing…Read More
At the heart of the European idea is the conviction that there is strength in unity. This also applies to industrial policy: In the 1970s, for example, the Europeans founded Airbus, a continental aircraft manufacturer that grew to rival the U.S. giants Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Fifty years later, with…Read More
Silicon Valley invented the Internet and the cloud – and thus the infrastructure for the data economy of the 21st century. And what does Europe bring to the game? We contribute our political know-how: for a federation with fair rules, reliable standards and public technology. This is because there is…Read More