The European Cloud Partnership (ECP) brings together industry and the public sector to establish a Digital Single Market for cloud computing in Europe."It has been established as part of the European Cloud Strategy.
The ECP has Steering Board provides advice to the Commission on strategic options to turn cloud computing into an engine for sustainable economic growth, innovation and cost-efficient public services. It is chaired by Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia and is composed of high-level representatives of the IT and telecom industry and decision makers from governmental IT policy making (see here for info). The Steering Board held its first meeting on November 19, 2012, after which it issued the followingpublic statement.
The ECP is supportedd by an initial budget of €10million for a pre-commercial procurement project in the ICT theme of the FP7 Research Programme (Objective ICT-2013.11.3, page 109 of 170)."
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/european-cloud-partnership
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