Digitale Souveränität #digitalesouveränität wird immer wichtiger, um sich von den großen Anbietern unabhängig zu machen. Das Land Schleswig-Holstein hat das schon erkannt und sich in den letzten Monaten mit der „Open Innovation und Open Source Strategie“ weitestgehend von #Microsoft getrennt.
Dass das Ganze auch wirtschaftliche Vorteile haben kann, beschreibt die Staatskanzlei in einem Beitrag:


![While board seats remained reserved for EU companies and industry groups, alarm bells grew louder that the project was being hijacked by the very players it was meant to take on.
Those firms “steered the entire roadmap,” Lechelle said, throwing money and people at it. “The committees were drowning. They [global players] had the capacity, the bandwidth, but we were already underwater ... Americans have full-time lobbyists and massive budgets. Their job is basically to derail any initiative they don’t like.”
American cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google, as well as Chinese tech giants Huawei and Alibaba, are all members of Gaia-X. In 2021, the annual summit in Milan was sponsored by Huawei and Alibaba, prompting backlash.
Some interviewees expressed criticism that the European industry associations and companies on the board were representing the interests of business partners abroad.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/628/758/457/710/184/small/5b3615d51fc38d33.png)




