Hence the quotes - I suppose I could have added "ostensibly" in there.
Of course data infrastructures and the wider technological industry are highly political in constructing imaginaries, appropriating funding as you noted, aligning with public and private interests, shaping the flows of data, etc etc. But as I've been reading so much of this industry 'grey literature' for the last six months, its very much still pervaded by discourses of performance, efficiency, flexibility, optimisation - with companies as service providers. So the simple point here was just that it's interesting to see such issues appear in these kind of practical industry publications. Of course, this also means deciding how these political visions will translate into operations, protocols, and processes. Personally I don't have any great hopes for the realization of Gaia-X but it does join other recent initiatives in changing the conversation around data sovereignty / technical sovereignty. On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 06:59, Adam Burns <ad...@free2air.net> wrote: > > Data Center and Service providers are attempting to lobby further for > large amounts of investment planned in Gaia-X, see slick pamphlet here: > > > https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/Digitale-Welt/project-gaia-x.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4 <....> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
