The Road to European Digital Sovereignty with Gaia-X and IDSA

Digitalization is chewing the world with strong economic and social impacts. Recently, the management of the COVID 19 crisis highlighted the power of digital tools and their impact on stakes such as privacy, surveillance, transparency, and censorship. How nations deal with massive digitalization and master the technologies, and applications that are deployed and used on their soils by their companies and citizens is vividly raised by the U.S. ban on Huawei enforced by the “clean network” strategy. This ban could have set the ground for a technology war between “2 blocks: the digital democracies and the techno-authoritarian regimes” [1], [2].