• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Nevertheless, the European Parliament could decide to phase out all non EU based cloud services for public entities by 2030 and let European companies build those services in the mean time. The switch for private companies would be much easier once these European alternativess have built the infrastructure to address big clients.

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      The blog in question has several proposal in that direction, though a little more sophisticated.

      He basically says that the EU should fund the development and deployment of certain key services that are technologically feasible and hugely important. Even doing this at a total loss, the benefits would be beyond huge and build the capacity we would need to take further steps.

      He lists 7 examples, but I’ll give you 3. We need viable, comparable quality, alternatives to:

      • GMail/Outlook.com
      • Google Docs
      • Github

      The article is here:

      https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/