Cloud providers GigaCloud, De Novo and data center “Parkoviy” this week signed a memorandum on the establishment of a public union (PU) “Ukrainian Alliance of Digital Sovereignty”.
“The prerequisite for the association was the foreign policy instability, which has seriously affected the global technology market, as well as the digital and economic security of the country,” the union’s founders said in a release.
They call the main goal to ensure Ukraine’s digital sovereignty, by which they mean the transfer, storage and processing of important data, in particular government, medical, financial and defense data, within the country and in accordance with the requirements of current Ukrainian legislation.
“Because of the war, Ukraine is almost the only country in the world where state data is forced to be partially stored abroad. After the war is over, the issue of returning this data under Ukrainian jurisdiction will arise. Therefore, we are ready for a dialog with state authorities to develop a strategy for such a return,” the release says.
According to the organizers of the Union, technological solutions are becoming an instrument of political pressure from some countries on others.
“We as market players are focused on the national market, we have a mission not only to sell our services here, but also to protect the economy of the country, which is the environment for our business and our clients,” representatives of the newly formed alliance claim.
Among the declared areas of work – “technological revision” of the country, as well as the development of common standards for infrastructure solutions that will allow to build large geo-distributed infrastructure between the sites of national providers, easily and seamlessly transfer data between cloud environments of different providers without artificial technological obstacles, to guarantee the safety and security of user data even in critical situations, in particular in the case of enemy attacks, as well as to implement a policy of Data Embassy and the technology of the many,” said the representatives of the new alliance.
It is emphasized that other companies that share its principles, such as data centers, software companies and infrastructure providers, are welcome to join the Alliance.
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