Modern digital public administration is essential today for making government processes efficient and citizen-centred – and Google Cloud offers pioneering solutions for this. The Google Cloud highlight at the Smart Country Convention is Google Cloud Dedicated (GCD), a sovereign cloud solution that resolves the sovereignty paradox between innovation and strict local control: no one needs to choose between innovation and compliance any longer. Thanks to the ‘sovereignty’ hygiene factor, customers no longer have to choose between adhering to strict compliance requirements and using world-class AI services – they can now seamlessly combine the two.

The European backbone: local control by Thales

Sensitive government data requires uncompromising security, delivered through a strategic partnership with the European trusted partner Thales. In Germany, GCD is operated by an independent company owned by Thales. Data and AI tools run on physically isolated infrastructure in a dedicated region in Berlin – operated independently under German and European law. In conjunction with the S3NS platform in France, this forms a highly resilient digital backbone for Europe. Whether it’s the BSI C3A framework or SecNumCloud – Google Cloud Dedicated aims to meet the highest standards.

Sovereign AI: Progress in line with European rules

Public sector digitalisation relies on artificial intelligence (AI). Thanks to the sovereign cloud, the public sector can use AI with full control, as model training and inference take place locally and sensitive data never leaves the region. Further information is available here.

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