The European Cloud initiative
At a Glance
07-02-2017
The economic prospects of cloud computing and the data-driven economy are very promising. However, fragmentation, differences in data policies, scarce incentives, interoperability problems and lack of high-capacity data infrastructure, among other challenges, are slowing down its development in Europe. A European Parliament own-initiative report reflecting on the European Commission's European Cloud initiative is on the agenda of the February II plenary session.
At a Glance
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Policy area
Keyword
- cloud computing
- data protection
- digital single market
- economic structure
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU initiative
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- Framework Programme for Research and Development
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- knowledge economy
- open data
- personal data
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property