Blancato, FG;
(2023)
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem.
Policy & Internet
10.1002/poi3.358.
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Abstract
How does the European Union balance the need to migrate data to the cloud with the imperative of reducing its dependence on foreign cloud providers? Cloud computing is a critical technology for the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) in the digital economy. This paper argues that the EU is adopting a host of regulatory requirements and industrial policy tools—which fall under the umbrella term of ‘data sovereignty’—not only to protect the confidentiality of European data, but also to counter the dominance of US vendors in the European cloud market. To demonstrate how data sovereignty principles are woven into current EU policy initiatives, the paper presents two case studies: Gaia-X and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge, and Cloud. Linking data sovereignty to the lack of a competitive European cloud ecosystem sheds light on the strategic dimension of cloud computing in a way that treating them separately would not do.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/poi3.358 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.358 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Policy & Internet published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Policy Studies Organization. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | cloud computing, data sovereignty, Edge, European Alliance for Industrial Data, European Union, Gaia‐X |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177061 |
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