A step forward for digital sovereignty and data spaces
Gaia-X Hub Spain is now part of MNX Online’s roadmap: we have joined as members with a clear goal—helping organizations share data in a way that is safer, interoperable, and governed by clear rules, aligned with the values and standards Europe is promoting for the data economy.
This milestone reinforces what we have been building for years: technology that enables public and private organizations to share information with guarantees—reducing unnecessary dependencies, enabling collaboration, and ensuring data is used with transparency and control.
What is Gaia-X?
Gaia-X is a European initiative designed to foster an open, federated, and interoperable digital ecosystem, grounded in sovereignty, transparency, and control. It is not “a new cloud” or a closed platform. Instead, it focuses on defining rules, trust mechanisms, and compliance criteria so different stakeholders can collaborate while keeping control over how data and services are shared and consumed.
In practice, Gaia-X is especially relevant for any organization working on data spaces, because it addresses the “how” of collaboration: how identities are verified, what permissions apply, under which conditions access is granted, and what commitments must be met.
The pillars behind Gaia-X
Gaia-X is built on pillars that align with the real challenges of data spaces:
- Governance and compliance: shared rules and verifiable compliance to reduce ambiguity and strengthen trust between participants.
- Federation: interoperability and portability across services and datasets, avoiding isolated solutions and reducing dependency on a single provider.
- Data exchange: a foundation to operationalize agreements and collaboration between organizations, with traceability and clear conditions.
Gaia-X also aims to define a reference architecture, encourage open-source implementations where possible, and enable conformance mechanisms (tests/validation) to support interoperability and compliance with shared rules.
In the context of data spaces, the focus on federation services (Gaia-X Federation Services) is particularly relevant, as well as collaboration with European ecosystems working on interoperability and trusted data sharing at scale.
Why this fits MNX Online
From the Canary Islands, we have been developing technology for territories and destinations that need to make better decisions with data—especially in tourism, sustainability, operational efficiency, and multi-stakeholder coordination. Our vision naturally aligns with Gaia-X: moving from “locked-in data” to a model where sharing information is possible with guarantees, respecting identities, permissions, agreements, and traceability.
This means progressing toward models where:
- organizations can provide and consume data without losing control,
- data exchange happens under clearly defined conditions,
- and interoperability does not rely on fragile, ad-hoc integrations.
Joining Gaia-X Hub Spain also brings us closer to a community shaping approaches and use cases that will influence the next few years in Europe—also in tourism, where public-private collaboration and the data economy are becoming increasingly central.
What this membership enables
Being part of Gaia-X Hub Spain helps us:
- Connect with public and private organizations working on the data economy and data spaces.
- Share knowledge and best practices, learning from real experiences and contributing our perspective.
- Identify collaborations and consortia for national and European projects, where interoperability and trust are increasingly baseline requirements.
- Stay close to the evolution of specifications and trust frameworks that will shape how data spaces operate and how ecosystems collaborate.
Networks like this do not guarantee funding on their own, but they do accelerate progress: they place you in the conversations, alliances, and opportunities where ambitious, long-term projects are built.
Our commitment within Gaia-X
For us, this is not about “adding a logo”—it is about participating where we have practical experience. In this phase, we want to:
- Contribute to use cases where interoperability and governance become real implementations.
- Align projects and lines of work with criteria that strengthen scalability, portability, and trust.
- Bring a perspective that is especially useful for tourism and territories: less narrative, more “how data exchange works day to day”.
This connects directly with what we build from the Canary Islands: purpose-driven technology with measurable impact in real organizations.
Looking ahead
This step reinforces our mission: building useful technology for territories, with solutions that can work together and respect clear rules. We will keep working from Fuerteventura with international ambition—connecting innovation, talent, and projects that deliver real value.
And as part of that vision, we will keep stressing a key idea: digital sovereignty is not a slogan. It is a way of building solutions where data and collaboration rest on clear rules, transparency, and trust.
We keep moving toward a safer, federated, and more transparent digital future—together, in a network.
