With the launch of the Interoperable Why now? Because interoperability has emerged as a Europe Act in Nov. 2022, Europe productivity lever that enables growth in times of demand has firmly established the and optimizes costs in times of distress. In good times, interoperability helps companies innovate and governments foundations of an ambitious plan: deliver better services for their citizens. When times are tough, using interoperability to improve interoperability helps organizations do more with less, faster cooperation on data exchange and IT and cheaper. With this act, governments in Europe are hoping solutions, accelerating Europe’s digital that increased interoperability will spur growth and lead to more efficient public services. transformation. The project aims to What’s interesting is that this push to develop higher interoperability find a way for public administrators isn’t at odds with Europe’s increasing push towards digital sovereignty. to enable the seamless cross-border While digital sovereignty is increasingly desired by a growing number of exchange of data and digital solutions, companies and countries, stakeholders realize that sovereign doesn’t like open-source software, frameworks mean siloed. Instead, they are keen to exploit the potential of critical data value chains to create new pools of value. The solution? Making it easier and IT tools. for public and private organizations to securely share data and digital solutions. Interoperability as a concept becomes core to differentiation in this environment. To that end, the Interoperable Europe Act is an essential step to help Europe achieve its digital targets for 2030 and support trusted data flows. Value untangled 4