Towards a data-driven economy in Europe

Gisele Roesems

European Commission

DG CONNECT - Data Value Chain)

Brussel

nd International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology

Big Data in Secure Societies Brussel, September 30th , 2015

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'Big data' Communication – July 2014

• First ever EU-wide initiative addressing data in a holistic manner

• The Communication sketches the necessary features of the data-driven economy (vision)

• It seeks to initiate a debate with the Parliament, Council and other stakeholders in order to prepare a more detailed action plan.

• It is fully consistent with a wider set of actions under the Digital Single Market Strategy

Ambitions of the new Commission

Digital Single Market Strategy of 6 May 2015:

• Aims at boosting growth and jobs

• Examples action areas targeted by the DSM building a data economy:

• ‘Free flow of data’ initiative

• Standards and interoperability

• Digital skills

• E-services, including e-government

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EU actions will aim at:

• Ensuring a data-friendly policy and regulatory environment (e.g. privacy, IPRs, security, ownership)

• Developing a well-functioning European data ecosystem for a Digital Single Market

• Supporting competence (skills)

• Building of secure and reliable infrastructure

• Enhancing data availability and interoperability

• Promoting multilingual solutions

• Building EU-wide data-community 4

Ongoing actions

Big Data Value PPP • Launch October 2014; open to new members

• Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for 2016-2020;

European Data Science Academy

Open Data Incubator for SMEs

Consultation, Workshops

CSA Big Data Europe

H2020 WP2016-2017

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Big Data in H2020 WP 2016-2017

LEIT (Industrial leadership)-Content technologies Big data PPP

SC1: Health, demographic change and wellbeing > Big Data supporting Health policies

SC4: Smart, green and integrated transport > Innovative ICT solutions for future logistics

SC6: Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies > Policy making in the age of Big Data

SC7: Secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens > risk management

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• Data has become an economic and societal asset creating

fantastic opportunities for new business but also some

threats (information overabundance, privacy)

• Current challenges and obstacles to a thriving data economy

require an EU-wide set of actions

• Industry involvement is key to ensure a successful data

ecosystem in Europe

• The results of our ongoing consultation exercise will

contribute to a detailed roadmap for the data-driven economy.

Summary

Thank you for your attention

Gisele.Roesems@ec.europa.eu

cnect-G3@ec.europa.eu

Disclaimer: This presentation only represents the views of its author and cannot be seen as binding the

Commission in any way.