Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, and Deutsche Bahn announced the founding of the DataHub Europe platform at the German Government’s Digital Summit 2024 in Frankfurt am Main.
With DataHub Europe, the companies involved have created a platform that brings together processes and curates data from industry and the media landscape. The high-quality data is made available to partners to train AI models in a secure infrastructure. The aim is to introduce company-specific AI solutions quickly, securely and beneficially as “real tools” in a wide range of business applications.
“The DataHub Europe closes a crucial gap in the EU by providing high-quality data for AI training. German companies and stakeholders have once again proven that we can combine innovation and implementation power. This is creating an exciting ecosystem and a much-needed data platform that will take the training of AI models for our industry to the next level,” the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Volker Wissing, said.
Data partners from industry and media companies, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and DvH Medien (Wirtschaftswoche and Handelsblatt) are the partners from industry, technology, science and the media that will work together to make their data available.
Clearly defined rules and mechanisms ensure that this sensitive data is only used for specific purposes. “AI made in Europe” therefore not only means technological excellence, but also that the data partners retain sovereignty over their data and have the certainty that their data will be handled securely and trustworthily. The platform and AI partners Aleph Alpha, STACKIT, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Technical University of Darmstadt / hessian.AI, enable the training of the models and that AI applications are developed and implemented on the sovereign platform.
Companies, the public sector and scientific institutions can exploit the value creation potential of this transparent data platform without having to accept restrictions on data protection or sovereignty over their data. Legal requirements such as the GDPR, the EU AI Act and copyright law are complied with. DataHub Europe thus promotes the right of self-determination of rights holders and makes an important contribution to strengthening digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe.
“The DataHub Europe enables us to process data in a protected European infrastructure. This allows us to integrate AI applications into our day-to-day work as useful and legally compliant tools. At the same time, we benefit from the data and expertise of the partners in the ecosystem and can jointly develop even more powerful AI solutions. AI makes us more efficient both in administration and in rail operations and thus makes an important contribution to our restructuring programme, S3,” the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Deutsche Bahn, Daniela Gerd tom Markotten, said.
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