The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformationthrough the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, the deployment of the Public administration cloud services strategy. The person in charge of announcing it has been the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezwithin the framework of the business meeting organized by AWS, “Innovation in the cloud as an opportunity for Spain”.
The objective of the strategy is to give priority to the provision of services based on cloud technologies by public administrations. For this, they will initially use their own resources, which will later be complemented with solutions from the private sector. All to improve the provision of services and achieve greater technological sovereignty.
As the President of the Government has commented, the strategy will be carried out based on three outstanding points. The first is the adoption of a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This cloud will be made up of a cloud belonging to the General State Administration, which will be combined with those of other public Administrations and external providers.
The second point is the consolidation of the Data Processing Centers of the General State Administration to have fewer centers but with better benefits. This will reduce costs at an economic and environmental level. The agility of ICT operations will also be improved, and participation in initiatives within the framework of the European Union will be promoted.
The third point is the offer of a growing catalog of services, thanks to the incorporation of applications that address the common needs of public administrations, with solutions that follow the Software as a Service model. In addition, in line with the European Data Strategy, various common secure data spaces, or data lakes, will be launched, which will help drive innovation in strategic productive sectors, such as health, tourism, industry or the commercial.
This announcement of the implementation of this strategy addresses the need to change how public services are presented, so that with a new approach, such as the one proposed by this cloud strategy, they have more flexibility and agility, as well as greater adaptability. It is also done to undertake various innovations that are based on the value of data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things or 5G and 6G communication networks.
Using cloud services allows public administrations to provide digital services and have safe, efficient and reliable technological infrastructures. And to do it at the same time that they demand specific attention to the fulfillment of the necessary guarantees for the strategic autonomy of the country, the security and the control of the data.
Pedro Sánchez wanted to highlight during the announcement of the launch of this strategy, “a key concept: data sovereignty. To talk about it is to talk about technological autonomy, data protection and cybersecurity, areas in which the aforementioned Strategy will deepen«. He has also talked aboutthe need to harmonize, from the public sphere, the efforts of the private sector in the framework of digitization» Due to the relevance that data management has achieved in the country.
