GAIA-X AISBL

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The Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL (in French: Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif, short: AISBL, English: Nonprofit organization laws by jurisdiction) is an international non-profit organization, developing and operating Gaia-X
GAIA-X is a project for the development of an efficient and competitive, secure and trustworthy data infrastructure for Europe, which is supported by representatives from business, science and administration from Germany and France, together with other European partners
The goal of the organization is to develop federation cloud services within the existing cloud infrastructures
To achieve this and to ensure an open and transparent character the Association facilitates the development of an open software infrastructure
Communication partners have access to a strictly controlled, transparent and securely encrypted data exchange
Data accesses and their authorizations can be tracked and understood

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. Members of Gaia-X AISBL

Cloud data services (storage & sharing)

https://www.data-infrastructure.eu/GAIAX/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html https://gaia-x.eu/who-we-are/association/