Initiative of the ITU, GIZ, Estonia and DIAL that describes reusable building blocks for digital government services, so that countries can combine them instead of rebuilding each service from scratch.

International Telecommunication Union, the specialised agency of the United Nations for information and communication technologies. Members of the SOVCAP organising committee work with the ITU.

Inter-university cooperation on a shared, Kubernetes-based project cloud for teaching and research.

Sovereign Cloud Stack, an open-source standard and reference implementation for federated cloud and container infrastructure, developed as a community project of the Open Source Business Alliance. The clouds in this initiative are meant to be SCS-compliant.

Zentren fuer Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Lehre und Forschung e. V., the association of the IT centres of German universities and research institutions.