Gaia-X empowers businesses, individuals, and governments with secure, transparent, and sovereign control over data through a decentralized cloud infrastructure.

In this new model, Data Exchange occurs as a result of the contract negotiation being anchored into the infrastructure. Gaia-X Compliance provides the means to objectivise the criteria for Natural, Legal Participants, Service Offerings and Datasets in an ecosystem or dataspace to take educated decisions using information that can be measured, compared and verified.

Gaia-X represents the core of the organisation. It was founded to develop the technical framework and the Gaia-X Trust Framework. Its members, are either companies with a provider or user background of data infrastructure, IT-start-ups, research institutions or business associations that are aligning with Gaia-X to federate cloud services within the existing cloud infrastructures.

The Gaia-X Association’s General Assembly is composed of all of its members. The General Assembly has complete authority to carry out the objectives of the Gaia-X Association. The Board of Directors decides on important matters regarding the Gaia-X Association. It is headed by a Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson.

Dec 4, 2023 · Author: Przemek Halub, Program Manager. Introduction. Changes brought about by the development of new technological solutions are increasingly reaching into the nooks and crannies of our lives.

The architecture document (AD) provides rules-agnostic technical and syntactic interoperability guidelines. The compliance document (CD), previously known as Policy Rules and Labelling Document (PRLD) and Policy Rules Compliance Document (PRCD) provides a set of rules to ensure the organisational and semantic interoperability.This specification is technology agnostic.

Gaia-X is a privately funded non-for-profit association that enables a neutral global digital ecosystem where consumers and providers can conduct business in a trusted, transparent, and secure environment. It provides the foundation for a competitive alternative to proprietary platforms that impose vendor lock-in and operate in opaque environments regarding data privacy, extraterritorial laws ...

The term ‘data space’ refers to a type of data relationship between trusted partners who adhere to the same high level standards and guidelines in relation to data storage and sharing within one or many Vertical Ecosystems.. A critical aspect of the data space notion is that data are not stored centrally, but rather at the source.

Each release has a codename and is composed of several documents and a specific source code implementation. From the latest to the oldest, the codenames are:

18 March 2022, in Talavera de la Reina, Castilla La Macha, the Government of Spain, through the Secretariat of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence is celebrating the Constituent Assembly of the Spanish Hub of Gaia X, seeking to support the Association’s mission in data sharing and digital sovereignty and aims to ensure data availability, interoperability, portability and ...