Therefore, it is crucial that GAIA-X continues its work in improving its governance structure, including its internal rules, policies and procedures, to make them more transparent, inclusive and fair. We recommend to fully implement such governance framework before taking substantive and duly considered decisions on behalf of the broader community of GAIA-X members. To help ensure that GAIA-X effectively accomplishes its overall objectives, we believe that it is of key importance for GAIA-X to establish a credible, transparent, fair and efficient governance structure with appropriate and adequate safeguards. General remarks on governance, transparency & process Observations on the governance and implementation of data spaces.Observations on the process of defining policy rules and architecture of standards (PRAAS).General observations on governance, transparency and processes of GAIA-X.Our observations can be broken down into 4 different aspects: Achieving an optimal functioning organisation is essential for GAIA-X to succeed in its ambitions to unlock Europe’s digital and data potential. Now that the GAIA-X AISBL has been formally established, DIGITALEUROPE considers it important to formulate, on behalf of its members, a set of views, questions and recommendations to enhance the operations of GAIA-X. DIGITALEUROPE has therefore decided to become a GAIA-X day-1 member and wishes to constructively contribute to this important European project. We are convinced that GAIA-X can support innovation in Europe by enabling a decentralised infrastructure and architecture based on shared values, which would encourage data sharing and cloud and edge take-up by European companies, while advancing EU policy and standardisation discussions. GAIA-X’s policy rules and architecture of standards (PRAAS) should only focus on principles needed to create the ecosystem and allow for different means of compliance while ensuring transparency on any variations and providing federated services respecting shared values and global standards.ĭIGITALEUROPE is a strong supporter of the GAIA-X project, more particularly its overarching goal to develop and foster an innovative and trusted data-driven ecosystem in Europe. Given the expected impact of GAIA-X, which will likely exceed the scope of its initial membership, any review and approval processes of major deliverables should be as inclusive as possible, ensure sufficient discussion among interested parties, to achieve maximum consensus. Further work is still needed to develop and enhance internal rules and procedures, particularly to best integrate newer members to the GAIA-X community. Pursuing our commitment to the GAIA-X project, after applying as day-1 member, we now propose recommendations to improve GAIA-X’s operations and deliverables: DIGITALEUROPE strongly believes in the potential of GAIA-X to become a game-changing initiative to support innovative data exchanges and cloud and edge uptake in Europe.

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