The State will have its own sovereign cloud as an alternative to public cloud services. Sensitive data will be stored in it. State Secretary for Digitalization Zsolt Szabó recently reported this to the House of Representatives.
Szabó considers excessive dependence on one or a single market party undesirable. The continuity of the Dutch digital government should not depend directly on parties from the United States. "When considering what data to process in-house and what to process in the public cloud, risky strategic dependencies as well as market concentrations must be taken into account."
The secretary of state further informs that this position also applies to the government-wide cloud policy, the policy frameworks for digital autonomy and sovereignty of the government and in the IT sourcing strategy Rijk.
"This will be part of the Dutch Digitalization Strategy (NDS), which will be published this spring. This provision should bridge the gap for digital services for which the use of public cloud is undesirable, for example because of data sensitivity or when unwanted dependencies must be avoided," the state secretary said.
Click here for Zsolt Szabó's Chamber letter.
