{"id":3848,"date":"2012-09-28T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T10:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/28\/cloud-computing-future-eu-economy\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T10:51:26","slug":"is-cloud-computing-the-future-for-eu-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-cloud-computing-the-future-for-eu-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is cloud computing the future for EU economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neelie Kroes hopes to make the EU the &lsquo;e-EU&rsquo; with new strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EU has launched a new cloud strategy, entitled &ldquo;Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe&rdquo;, designed to increase the use of and speed up cloud computing in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cloud computing could offer a huge lift to the European economy, but only if users can understand and trust it,&rdquo; said EU digital agenda VP Neelie Kroes to open her speech yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The figures: a yearly 160bn Euro (&pound;127.6bn) boost to the European gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020 &ndash; the equivalent of a few hundred euros per citizen &#8211; and a net gain of 2.5m jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not surprising, therefore, that Kroes called the cloud &ldquo;a game-changer for our economy&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EU, one of the most important aspects of the strategy is to &ldquo;cut through the jungle of technical standards&rdquo;, with necessary standards to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neelie Kroes hopes to make the EU the &lsquo;e-EU&rsquo; with new strategy<br \/>\nThe EU has launched a new cloud strategy, entitled &ldquo;Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe&rdquo;, designed to increase the use of and speed up cloud comput&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}