Zusammenfassung
Within the past years data availability and data sharing has righteously been identified as one of the key dimensions in order to leverage digitalization and generate economic welfare across all industries and for the overall society. Especially business to business (B2B) and business to governance (B2G) data sharing will create tremendous opportunities.
At the Data Space Business Committee (“DSBC”) we accumulate and engage with various experts from a multitude of different data spaces (“vertical ecosystems”) as well as dedicated subject matter experts on relevant dimensions for the creation of data spaces (e.g. Governance, Technic, Legal/ Policy/Compliance, Financial). Throughout the following pages the initial ideas, plans, use cases and approaches on how to engage in a data sharing ecosystem based on Gaia-X values are aggregated. Gaia-X creates the foundation for a federated, open data infrastructure based on European values.
The goal of this compilation of dataspaces position papers is to provide an idea of the current
state in each of the following verticals: Agriculture, Education, Energy, Finance, Health,
Industry 4.0, Mobility, Public Sector, Geoinformation and Smart Living. This compilation
aggregates information about the data spaces’ current missions, challenges, and roadmaps of
planned or previously implemented use cases.
We want to explicitly express our gratitude for the great work that has been done whilst
drafting all the different data space positioning papers, which originate from across Europe,
and for the sharing. The following section summarizes the most important aspects in each of the data spaces:
Agriculture: Throughout the entire agriculture chain new digital tools and new data-driven
applications are deployed. To scale up and to make optimal use of this data revolution, a key
Federation of existing IT infrastructures including platforms that deliver data sharing services
(data intermediaries) is needed. A common European agriculture dataspace should ensure
data sharing over the full supply chain from Farm to Fork.
Education: Combining the strengths of Edtech’s, governments and research entities, the Education dataspace aims to create an education and skills data space linked to Gaia-X, which is going to foster Europe’s competitiveness and to spread of European values improving, simultaneously, research, AI development and innovation, in a legal stable environment.
Energy: The goals of the energy data space are to support and accelerate the energy transition
in Europe and to develop businesses at European and worldwide scales. Additionally, new services to European citizens, taking advantage of Gaia-X infrastructure, data protection services and associated value allowed by these services should be provided.
Finance: Banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, Fintech’s, cloud service providers, software editors, academic institutes and governmental agencies have been lacking a trusted cloud service & data space between their internal cloud and data platforms and external cloud platforms. Through the Gaia X initiative, the Finance data space foresee a tangible and close way forward to easily build, assemble and use trusted and value-creating data-based cloud services, as well as create new products/services and foster new business models that are compliant “by design” with European regulations and values.
Health: Health data is a sensitive topic for European citizens, as well as a strategic asset for
governing bodies to understand and protect their population. The four main goals of the Health
data space are 1) maintaining European sovereignty on health data, 2) creating trust in personal healthcare data usage, guaranteeing transparency and compliance towards EU and local regulations, 3) improving care provided to patients with big data and AI technologies, and 4) focusing healthcare and health pathways on patients’ outcomes and real-world evidence.
Industry 4.0: Typically, today’s business value in production and manufacturing is generated in a global production value network. This network is built on single, bi- and multi- lateral business relationships. However, this bilateral nature of cooperation hinders multi-stakeholder collaboration down- and upstream the value chain. To realize highly impactful use cases, depends on a fundamental paradigm shift in the global production ecosystem from bilateral to multilateral collaborations, allowing end-to- end data exchange in a fully interoperable and sovereign data-oriented manner: The Data- Space Industry 4.0.
Mobility: By focusing on enhancing user experience in mobility, while creating new business opportunities for the ecosystem’s members, the Mobility data space aims to 1) offer end-to-end seamless and safer mobility for users, 2) increase productivity for the various stakeholders of the mobility and digital sectors, whether public organizations, large private companies, or SMEs, and 3) be fully aligned with EU and National government priorities: Privacy Protection, Digitization, Environment, Industrial development, Territorial cohesion, etc. The emergence of federated service and data platforms which can provide for an easy and trusted exchange of data is thus actively welcomed.
Public Sector: The declared goal of Gaia-X’s Public Sector domain is to drive exchange between public sector players and public and private IT service providers as well as platform operators and to make joint efforts to build a digitally sovereign, resilient, and cross-sector data infrastructure and to improve data use overall. Given Germany’s federal structure, this also means informing the administrations at all federal levels about Gaia-X even more than before and convincing them to participate.
Smart Living: Given the fact of intensive connections to adjacent domains, such as smart energy networks, smart city, assistance and AAL, etc., the overall concept of Smart Living is “Building as an intelligent Service”. A smart home, a smart building or a group of smart buildings should be able to interact intelligent with smart energy networks, smart city structures, smart mobility offerings and smart assistance services. The mission and goal of a Gaia-X Smart Living Shared Data Space is to enable such cross-domain services and applications.