OVHcloud's Digital Sovereignty Roadshow
Digital Sovereignty Roadshow
How to assert European Digital Sovereignty
OVHcloud’s initiative to roll out a Digital Sovereignty Roadshow took place in the frame of the 2022 French Presidency of the European Union Council, which put the topic at the top of its agenda.
Over the course of this continent-wide public dialogue, OVHcloud’s primary objective was to generate productive debates around the definition and concepts of European Digital Sovereignty.
The second objective was to work on a pragmatic roadmap that shall enable Digital Sovereignty to take deep roots across the ecosystem.
Gathering key representatives across public institutions, technology leaders and trade associations, a much stronger commitment arose: Europe must take its digital destiny to the next level, building on four key pillars.
Time has come, to act and fully embrace the challenge for European Digital Sovereignty
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Europe is experiencing unique momentum and awareness in sowing the seeds of a European Digital Sovereignty. Its technological ecosystem is gaining maturity in all relevant sectors and cloud computing especially is becoming a decisive dimension of Digital Sovereignty.
The debates drew strongly on Estonia’s unique digital public service model, Spain’s humanist approach to a people-centric online life, Germany’s Industry 4.0 strategy, France’s French Tech movement and Italy’s digital strategy.
The Rome Consensus proposes a holistic framework resting on four pillars
Rules & Regulations:
The key for a shared, secure and principled environment with equal rules for players, especially regarding data sovereignty. This framework can become a global trend-sette and pioneer, establishing rules that could be emulated throughout the world.
Research & Development:
To reach the next stage of innovation and achieve technological sovereignty by pushing Europe’s long-standing and vibrant research and development community further. It will be made even stronger by merging the energies of the public and private sector in constant emulation with each other.
Funding & Tenders:
To implement strategic, sustainable and long-term financing to contribute to the emergence of global European-rooted champions.
Education & Training:
To ensure citizens, business leaders and public sector players are empowered to make secure and efficient choices which will secure Digital Sovereignty for all through relentless training and education at all stages of life and levels of expertise.
Throwback on OVHcloud Digital Sovereignty roadshow
What we learnt in Berlin
January 2022
Europe is a powerhouse of global innovation
The Berlin Roundtable demonstrated the wide-ranging
consensus that digital sovereignty is still within Europe’s
reach, despite the power of rival companies and models.
Yet, this means at the same time boosting innovation
and simultaneously tackling data sovereignty and
technological sovereignty.
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What we learnt in Warsaw
February 2022
Enabling European Alternatives in a fair and free competition
The Warsaw Roundtable has shown there is room for consensus between
Eastern and Western Europeans on a key aspect of the European model,
a free and fair competition applying the same rules for all. It’s from the
initiatives of private companies that concrete innovations, alternatives
and future champions will emerge.
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What we learnt in Madrid
March 2022
The rights of the citizens are the beating heart of digital sovereignty
Spain has been a pivotal player in the development
of a European Way of Digital Life, centred on the
citizen’s rights, needs and demands. It receives
broad support from all over Europe for its valuebased
and people-centric approach.
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What we learnt in Tallinn
May 2022
Training and education is at the heart of digital sovereignty
Estonia has been a leader and a pioneer in digital services and administration for several decades. It showed to all of Europe the key role public initiatives and leadership play in creating stable and strong ecosystems. Digital sovereignty needs at to be seen simultaneously both from the demand side and from the supply side to be resilient in times of growing international security challenges.
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