Business news from Ukraine

Ukraine has created the Alliance for Digital Sovereignty, which brings together cloud providers and data centers. The first members of the Ukrainian Alliance for Digital Sovereignty, cloud providers GigaCloud, De Novo, and the Parkovy data center, have agreed to cooperate for Ukraine’s sustainable technological development on the basis of national platforms.

The prerequisite for the association was the foreign policy instability that has seriously affected the global technology market, as well as the country’s digital and economic security. “Unfortunately, we are increasingly seeing technological solutions becoming an instrument of political pressure from one country to another. As market players focused on the national market, our mission is not only to sell our services here, but also to protect the country’s economy, which is the “living environment of our business and our customers,” the Alliance representatives say.

The main goal of the event is to ensure Ukraine’s digital sovereignty, i.e. transfer, storage and processing of important data, including government, medical, financial and defense data, within the country and in accordance with the requirements of current Ukrainian legislation. “Due to the war, Ukraine is probably the only country in the world where state data is partially stored abroad. After the war is over, the issue of returning this data to Ukrainian jurisdiction will arise. Therefore, we are ready to engage in a dialogue with government agencies to develop a strategy for such a return,” the Alliance founders said.

The areas of work include a technological “audit” of the country, as well as the development of unified standards for infrastructure solutions. Providers are confident that this approach will provide Ukraine with a number of new opportunities:

– build large geo-distributed infrastructures between the sites of national providers;

– easily and seamlessly transfer data between cloud environments of different providers without artificial technological barriers;

– ensure the security (and safety) of user data even in critical situations, including in the event of hostile attacks;

– implementing the Data Embassy policy and multi-domain security technology.

Representatives of the Alliance emphasize the need to increase the competitiveness of the Ukrainian market, stimulate innovation and strengthen cybersecurity. They share the understanding that Ukraine needs to become stronger, able to manage its own data – a strategic resource that is the basis for economic growth and development of the industries of the future – and this gives them a common motivation to be part of important state changes. The Alliance is open to other companies that share its principles and strive to work for the benefit of national digital security and sovereignty, including data centers, software companies, and infrastructure providers.