EU: Commission launches a public consultation on Cloud computing

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By: M. Schröder - 2B Advice GmbH - the privacy benchmark

In the context of what has been styled the Digital Agenda, the Commission is appealing especially to users and developers of Cloud services to share their experience, needs, expectations and insights. Users and developers may submit relevant documents until August 31 2011.

The aim of the Digital Agenda is to create a single digital market within Europe in order to allow European citizens to make safe use of, and to benefit from, all the advantages of the new digital era.

 

The initial finding of the Vice President of the Commission with responsibility for the Digital Agenda, Ms. Neelie Kroes, is that Cloud computing offers significant advantages in respect of cost savings and the availability of state-of-the-art services also for small and medium-sized enterprises. What is needed, however, is a well-formulated strategy to realize the full benefit of these advantages. The strategy should, among other things, provide answers to the following questions:

 

Which requirements arise in relation to data privacy and liability, with particular reference to transnational issues?

 

Which other legal or technical obstacles can inhibit the development of Cloud computing in Europe?

 

To what extent is there a need for standardization and interoperability?

 

Which questions arise in relation to the introduction of Cloud services, especially amongst small and medium-sized enterprises?

 

Which options for research and innovation subsidization in the Cloud computing field already exist or would be desirable?

 

Enterprises have the opportunity in the context of this consultation to indicate the current legal and de facto uncertainties and barriers affecting Cloud services. Businesses should use the opportunity that presents itself to actively participate in the development of a legal and technical framework for Cloud services in Europe in order to contribute to the creation of a workable, reliable, secure and sustainable framework for Cloud computing.

 

The following link will take you to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch

 

Further information:

 

europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do

 

ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm

 

 

 

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