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GAIA-X RAM

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Short Description

  • Gaia-X aims to create a federated open data infrastructure based on European values regarding data and cloud sovereignty i.e. to establish an ecosystem, whereby data is shared and made available in a trustworthy environment
  • The GAIA-X-RAM (Reference Architecture Model) document describes the concepts required to build the GAIA-X data and infrastructure ecosystem
  • It integrates the providers, consumers, and services required for this interaction
  • These services include assurance of identities, implementation of trust mechanisms, and usage control over data exchange and compliance - without the need for individual agreements
  • The GAIA-X RAM document describes both the static decomposition and the dynamic behavior of the GAIA-X core concepts and federation services

Facts and Figures

  • Gaia-X started as an initiative by the former German Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier and his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire in 2019
  • The name of the project bears reference to the Greek goddess "Gaia"
  • Officially, the Association was founded by 22 companies and organisations in January 2021 and until today, over 350 members have joined Gaia-X out of which more than 40% are SMEs
  • The mission of Gaia-X is to design and implement a data sharing architecture that consists of common standards for data sharing, best practices, tools, and governance mechanisms

Stakeholders

  • The founding members of GAIA-X AISBL on the German side include Beckhoff Automation, BMW, Bosch, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, German Edge Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, PlusServer, SAP, Siemens along with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the IDSA (International Data Spaces Association) and the European cloud provider association CISPE.
  • On the French side, Amadeus, Atos, Docaposte, Électricité de France (EDF), Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), Orange, Outscale, OVHcloud, Safran and Scaleway are among the French Founding Members
  • California-based company Palantir, part of the military-industrial complex of the US was also a founding member.

Use Cases

  • Provide small and medium-sized businesses common data-exchange mechanisms that adhere to the common needs of trust while building individual interfaces for data exchange and interoperability solutions
  • Provide mechanisms to verify the actual level of interoperability of commercial leading Digital Platforms
  • Development of framework that enables people to make informed decisions when exchanging data
  • Reducing the barriers to cloud adoption

Industry Sectors

  • Cloud data services (storage & sharing)

International Distribution

Sources

  • https://gaia-x.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Gaia-x-Architecture-Document-22.04-Release.pdf
  • https://gaia-x.eu/
  • https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Dossier/gaia-x.html