Europe needs an EU cloud strategy to benefit from economies...
Europe needs an EU cloud strategy to benefit from economies of scale and the single market, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes said Monday at an Economic Council symposium on cloud computing and privacy. The cloud is necessary for growth, jobs…
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and more efficient public services, she said. If Europe takes a national approach with “small Clouds stuck in small markets” and data locked within old borders, it will limit its cloud ambitions, her written remarks said. Rules for the cloud should make it easy for consumers and businesses to operate across the EU, she said. Kroes said she doesn’t want to over-regulate, and a European strategy should clarify the liability of cloud service providers and assure users that services are secure and trustworthy. It should also ensure competition in the market, make it easy to switch providers and allow for data portability, she said. With such a roadmap in place, Europe can take advantage of potentially great benefits for the public sector and public services, and deal with key policy areas such as data protection, she said. The strategy shouldn’t ignore global cloud computing issues, and should include measures to support and spur cloud take-up, such as training and awareness, research and standardization, Kroes said. “The Cloud shouldn’t be something that happens to Europe -- it should happen with Europe."