Digital-Infrastructure

Digital infrastructure as a public good - A European perspective

Public infrastructures such as transportation, water, energy, and telecommunication are complextechnical, legal, economic, and politically managed systems. Material and social infrastructureservices satisfy a broad range of requirements. They become critical infrastructures if theessential public works of a country, state, or region depend on them.Often, digital infrastructure is conceived of as the hardware, software, and organizational andinstitutional settings for transferring , storing , accessing , processing and/or using digital data. Yet, the technical and organizational layer »allow multiple stakeholdersto orchestrate their service and content needs«. Thus, the »good is not the infrastructure system itself, but the functionalities thatit affords«.Weiterlesen: Blogbeitrag »Soll digitale Infrastruktur zu einem öffentlichen Gut werden?«