On November 14 and 15 2024, the 5th Gaia-X Summit took place in Helsinki, Finland. With over 600 registrants from more than 40 countries, the event showcased significant advancements in Gaia-X’s mission to establish a secure, federated, and interoperable digital ecosystem, setting new milestones for digital sovereignty and global collaboration.
How can we prevent the growing landscape of data spaces and data-sharing initiatives from becoming a source of fragmentation itself? The challenge is not to make everything the same, but to make conscious decisions about what can be reused, where harmonisation is needed, and where there should remain room for domain-specific choices.
