"From the EU sovereign cloud, more protection for companies' digital assets
Italian Sorrenti appointed Executive Vice President: 'Less dependence on Big Tech and a shield from cyber threats'
Key points
- Digital Commons Consortium
- Cyber threats
- The various European Edic
- The benefits for businesses
- The election of Serafino Sorrenti
- Industries most affected
- Standards
- The Pa on the cloud
"Especially at this time, it is very important to have a European digital infrastructure. It means more data protection for businesses, public administration and governments."
Consortium Digital Commons
Even before explaining the mechanisms and objectives of the Edic (Consortium for a European Digital Infrastructure) Digital Commons, of which he has just become executive vice-president, Serafino Sorrenti projects its function in relation to the current historical phase of multiple conflicts, a broken international order and increasingly hybrid warfare.
The cyber threats
The latest intelligence report confirms this: cyber threats are on the rise. "Technological sovereignty is no longer just a matter of cybersecurity, but a strategic issue that directly affects Europe's economic and geopolitical autonomy. An essential safeguard for our companies'. Sorrenti starts from this premise, adding the international assignment to that of head secretary to Alessio Butti, undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for technological innovation and digital transition.
The various European Edic
The Edic Digital Commons, which joins those for the Alliance of Language Technologies for Digital Infrastructure, the CitiVerse, the European Blockchain Partnership and the European Partnership for Interconnected Public Administration Transformation Services, brings together France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italia and is supported by Luxembourg and Slovenia, as candidate countries, and Poland and Belgium, as observers. "It creates for the first time," reads the European Commission page, "a structure dedicated to digital commons. It brings together public administrations, Open Source communities and companies'.
Benefits for businesses
What does a European cloud concretely mean for Italian companies? 'It means operating in a context of regulatory certainty and protection of digital assets, but also,' Sorrenti explains, 'seizing new opportunities for growth. The construction of the European sovereign ecosystem involves the identification of industrial stakeholders capable of developing concrete solutions, through the presentation of Letters of Intent to the consortium members. A process that opens up significant space for the production fabric and represents a lever in the post Pnrr, ensuring continuity for investments and strengthening industrial competitiveness'. In Brussels' intentions, companies should be better protected against systemic vulnerabilities, due to concentration on a few operators and the uncertainty that arises when data, software and infrastructure depend on chains outside the European perimeter.
