Gaia-X at the heart of data exchange

In today's economy, the availability and sharing of data have been identified as one of the key dimensions for leveraging digitization and generating economic well-being in all sectors and for society as a whole. In particular, exchanging data between public and private organizations will create enormous opportunities and address global economic, environmental and social challenges.

In this perspective, one mission of Gaia-X is to initiate and support the creation of data spaces, illustrated by lighthouse projects in key sectors of the European economy such as:

• Agriculture, to ensure data sharing over the full supply chain from Farm to Fork.
• Energy, to support and accelerate the energy transition in Europe.
• Mobility, to offer safer mobility for users and increase productivity.
• Health, to maintain European sovereignty over health data and improve care provided to patients with big data and AI technologies.

Data Exchange is the cornerstone for establishing industry data Exchanges and leveraging data spaces. In today's economy, where data is recognized as a crucial strategic asset, organizations that successfully implement and excel in data circulation gain a competitive advantage within their ecosystem and extend their influence beyond it, contributing to the development of a sovereign and trustworthy data economy.

Dawex was invited by Gaia-X CTO to take the lead in the Data Exchange Services Specification Working Group, along with IDSA as co-lead. The release of the Data Exchange Services Specification document by Gaia-X is the outcome of a close and open collaboration among members of the Data Exchange Services Working Group.

This group of experts consisted of organizations from 8 different countries, spanning various industries such as technology, cloud, finance, telecommunications, automotive, and energy, who dedicated their efforts to produce a comprehensive specification paper on data exchange specification.

Dawex Data Exchange technology implements the Gaia-X Trust Framework for a secure and trustworthy Data Economy, illustrating the maturity of its Data Exchange technology and the power generated by creating data ecosystems.

Organizations engaging in building data ecosystems will now be able to rely on guiding principles that will ensure they keep control over who accesses their data, for which purpose and under which terms, that is essential to building trust and retaining data sovereignty.