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Andreas Baur Jan 9, 2023

Happy to share that my article ‘European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control’ has just been published by @Geopolitics (and it's open access!)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902
A short summary:

My paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical #imaginaries of 3 European #cloud projects reveal a performative coupling of #innovation and political ideas of control, #territoriality and #sovereignty. I analyse how Microsoft’s cloud, Bundescloud and #GaiaX …

European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control

Recently, several private and political cloud initiatives emerged in Europe. This paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical imaginaries of three European cloud projects reveal a performative coupl...

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🌳ybaumy 🌳🐈‍⬛Jan 9, 2023

@andbaur @Geopolitics reading list here you come .. thanks

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What I am missing here is the view on the production dependencies of #IT #infrastructure components when it comes to #sovereignty, but also the data sharing between secret services like the #BND, #Europol, #NSA and police for that matter already (and so on). Sovereignty, would also mean that the sovereign geographical region would also be able and have control over production resources and processes, where the latter is also important when it comes to trustworthy access, at least on this political level, which would not mean higher trustworthiness on the consumer level, since the political system may also been compromised, if #democracy is a level of measurement.

So, the global supply chains are much more important also on a political level.

Also, when it comes to Gaia-X for example the paper is missing the point that the major cloud providers, like #Azure, #AWS are involved in that project, but also smaller infamously global players like #Palantir.

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Andreas Baur Jan 16, 2023

@ybaumy Thanks for taking the time to read and engage with my work! I agree that there could have been much more included in the paper, but space in such publications is always limited. The focus of my paper was to analyse what is being done with the imaginaries that surround these cloud projects and where sovereignty plays a specific role. I could not delve too much into how sovereignty can or should even be achieved. I agree that the points you mentioned are very relevant for this question.