{"id":8361,"date":"2021-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/building-europes-digital-sovereignty-the-role-of-open-source-edge-computing-and-gaia-x-event-held-by-i2cat-was-a-total-success\/"},"modified":"2021-07-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:00:00","slug":"building-europes-digital-sovereignty-the-role-of-open-source-edge-computing-and-gaia-x-event-held-by-i2cat-was-a-total-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/building-europes-digital-sovereignty-the-role-of-open-source-edge-computing-and-gaia-x-event-held-by-i2cat-was-a-total-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Europe\u2019s Digital Sovereignty: the role of open source, edge computing and GAIA-X event, held by i2CAT, was a total success"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event focused on discussing with several experts the role that open source, edge computing, and GAIA-X are expected to play in the process of building Europe\u2019s digital sovereignty, and both the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.<\/span><\/h3>\n

In early March 2021, the European Commission presented its <\/span>2030 Digital Compass<\/span><\/a>, a concrete vision and specific targets for Europe to become a leader in the digital space over the next decade. The document acknowledged Europe\u2019s vulnerabilities, its increased dependency on critical, often non-EU based, technologies, and the reliance on a few big tech companies, with less than 4% of the top online platforms being European. That digital transition, in which the European Union has agreed to invest at least a 20% of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, requires Europe to strengthen its own cloud infrastructure and capacities and to develop strategic technologies. For this reason, the event GAIA-X was celebrated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The event gathered together St\u00e9fane Fermigier, (Co-chair of the French National Council for Free and Open Source Software (CNLL)), Raquel Jorge Ricart (Fulbright Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University), Jos\u00e9 Manrique L\u00f3pez de la Fuente (CEO of Bitergia, CHAOSS Community), Alberto P. Mart\u00ed (VP of Open Source Community Relations at OpenNebula, GAIA-X Association), Shuaib Siddiqui (i2CAT Foundation Research Coordinator, GAIA-X Association) and Adam Smith (Managing Consultant for Digital Sovereignty & Government Cloud at HiSolutions). It was moderated by Jordi Guijarro, Cyber Security Innovation Director at i2CAT.<\/span><\/p>\n

The participants highlighted the importance of working together, collaborate, and support the ecosystem, \u201cdemocratize\u201d instead of \u201cregulate\u201d. The mentality needs to be changed, it is a must to push for European opensource tools and communities and be aligned to the market concept, considering it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event was divided into two parts, being the first one the presentations and introductions of the speakers, and the second one a debate following a series of questions regarding main topics and challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n