European cloud initiative: Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe

Policy Reports

The document explores how to exploit data using cloud computing. The European Cloud Initiative is aligned with the European Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy, which strives amongst other things to maximise the growth potential of the European digital economy. The document analyses why the European Union is not yet taking full advantage of data and identifies some of the solutions such as European Open Science Cloud, European Data Infrastructure and Widening Access and Building Trust.