Prof. Dr. Boris Otto is head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering
and Professor for Industrial Information Management at the Technical University of Dortmund.
At the Fraunhofer ISST he and his colleagues
are researching digital eco-systems for logistics, data management and health care.
In his Data Researchers Vlog, Prof. Otto highlights current digitization topics.
Today, Data Researchers focuses on GAIA-X and the question of how companies can participate in it.
Today I would like to speak again about GAIA-X.
GAIA-X pursues the goal of strengthening data and cloud sovereignty for Europe.
What is that actually?
It means that data providers can maintain transparency
and control over what happens
to their data when they share it.
On the other hand,
it also means that data users can trust
that the data they use comes from trustworthy sources.
GAIA-X creates a trustworthy data infrastructure,
and yesterday 22 organizations from France
and Germany committed themselves to this.
They have decided to create a non-profit organisation
under Belgian law in Brussels
to reflect the European spirit.
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
and the International Data Spaces Association
are founding members and we are very proud of that.
The "GAIA-X Foundation" will thus provide
the "home" for the GAIA-X community
and this is very, very meaningful
because it is important that we pursue and support
European values in the handling of data
and develop solutions for them.
These values are openness,
transparency, interoperability and trust.
That's why the GAIA-X Foundation is open to everyone
who shares these values with us.
The GAIA-X Foundation depends on many companies
from Europe, but also from other parts of the world
to help make this common vision a reality.
If you would like to know more about this
and are interested in participating
please visit the data-infrastructure.eu website.
