Bijvoorbeeld omdat ze zijn uitgegeven onder een opensource-licentie, gebruik maken van open standaarden, van dataspaces Link opent in een nieuwe browsertab-technologie (gericht op het delen van data in een beschermde op publieke waarden gebaseerde context) of gebaseerd zijn op decentrale, federatieve modellen.

n addition, the EU’s objective of creating Common European Data Spaces set out in the 2020European strategy for data, includes a dedicated Green Deal Data Space to support theEuropean Green Deal; this requires breaking data silos and ensuring that all relevantenvironmental data – spatial and non-spatial – can flow freely to inform EU environmentaland climate objectives and reduce administrative burden on companies and publicadministrations.

In the meantime, “those who wanted to maintain the status quo have won

American cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google, as well as Chinese tech giants Huawei and Alibaba, are all members of Gaia-X. In 2021, the annual summit in Milan was sponsored by Huawei and Alibaba, prompting backlash.

Those firms “steered the entire roadmap,” Lechelle said, throwing money and people at it. “The committees were drowning. They [global players] had the capacity, the bandwidth, but we were already underwater ... Americans have full-time lobbyists and massive budgets. Their job is basically to derail any initiative they don’t like.”

of a data space based on Gaia-X standards that French energy company EDF will use to securely coordinate the construction of new nuclear sites

During one of those conversations Adosh pointed me to Demo, a “grammar” for understanding organisations as sets of commitments, agreements and transaction between people, by a group at Delft University. It builds on the speech-act theory of Jurgen Habermas (in turn building on Wittgenstein and Searle). As Elmine did her M Sc. on Habermas in relation to the type of communication possible in weblogs, this of course triggered my interest. I’ll try and dig a bit deeper into it in the coming weeks.