11 Amendments of Dita CHARANZOVÁ related to 2016/2145(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s European Cloud Initiative as part of the implementation of the Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy and the Digitising European Industry Package, thus fostering the growth of the European digital economy and contributing to its global market positioning; recalls, in this context, also the role that the principle of "Open Science" plays in building a European knowledge economy;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the positive results achieved by existing pan-European structures and the open data available in the national data storage facilities; calls on the Commission and Member States to examine the potential of already available data and to ensure a coherent strategy on open data and the reusability of this data across Member States; notes that the Commission and Member States must make further investments in cross-border physical infrastructure with special focus on combining High performance Computing, high speed connectivity and mass data storage facilities in order to realise a thriving European data economy;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance for the European Cloud initiative to be based on the Connecting Europe Facility building blocks, in particular Eids and e- signatures, to reinforce trust by users in secure, interoperable and seamless electronic communications across Europe;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to identify best certification schemes and commonly used standards for data sharing across Member States, to lay out a market-driven pan-European set of standards facilitating data sharing, and to preferbased on open and global standards over proprietary standards whenever justified;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that at present 12% of the financing committed under the European Fund for Strategic Investments goes to digital-related actions; urges the Commission to present targeted steps which could genuinely enhance the involvement of the EFSI in DSM-related projects, including data-sharing initiatives and, digital accessibility and infrastructure;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that this Initiative should be developed in synergy with other Horizon 2020 programmes, including on private cloud computing and e- government services; supports measures to strengthen research and development of European cloud computing applications in order to ensure that Europe is competitive worldwide;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the underrepresentation of key stakeholders in the discussions and in Large Scale Pilot projects; stresses that awareness of the European Cloud Initiative should involve and benefitmust be increased among potential users and that it should involve and benefit all end-users, including researchers, start- ups, SMEs and consumers at European, national, regional and local levels, while avoiding administrative burden.
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes European Open Science Cloud as part of this strategy; underlines that such an initiative should seek to boost the knowledge economy while enabling great study and exchange within the whole Union, including academic institutions in the less developed regions;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Asks the Member States to ensure that civic society and stakeholders are able to take part in the planning of cloud computing initiatives;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Underlines that with all cloud computing initiatives that cybersecurity issues must be addressed in the planning stage and strong protective actions adopted to guarantee this infrastructure against cyberattacks; recalls the work done by ENISA in this regards and asks the Commission and Member States to ensure that the agency takes part in this initiative;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Welcomes the focus and support given to the use of big data; while underlining the need for strong security and privacy measures, believes that big data could present a vital asset for future academic and non-academic research;