bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Jul 25, 2024
This was no fun to write, but over the past years, I've come to the conclusion that Gaia-X is not ever going to deliver a working European cloud, not even indirectly. But worse, its very existence, expense and prominence form a distraction that is holding us all back. It is time to abandon Gaia-X.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/gaia-x-is-an-expensive-distraction/
Gaia-X is a distraction which should be abandoned - Bert Hubert's writings

It pains me that I have to write this, but Gaia-X is a harmful and expensive distraction, and it is not doing anything that will ever get us a “European cloud”, not even indirectly. Its very existence is holding back progress. For this reason, Gaia-X should be abandoned, and we should try to learn as much as possible from its failure, so we can try something else. I provide some inspiration at the end of this post.

Bert Hubert's writings
Show threadAlper Çuğun-Gscheidel

@bert_hubert And of course nobody in any of these large institutions is every going to do anything. There's way too much political risk to action.

Anything that's done has to be hedged and removed by several degrees and attested to by dozens of studies and certificates just to make sure it never comes back to haunt the decision makers.

Jul 26, 2024 at 10:20amWeb
Show threadboiertSep 26, 2024
@alper @bert_hubert So we might as well #ComeClean
It’s the challenge posed as such: does the EU have a function? Could it, bring about good, without introducing new laws: Focusing forward gave a few options, some greatly appreciated in the form of @nlnet by the Dutch as @GaiaXGermany for Germany?
Show threadboiertSep 26, 2024
@alper @bert_hubert @nlnet @GaiaXGermany Did this really get implemented in the arse-backwards manner of each member state getting to mandate and organize some form of digital fund?
I know the EU has the hardest time to do things autonomously. So work is delegated to each member state to specify and implement.