Towards EU big data economy Kimmo Rossi European Commission Big Data Paris 4 April 2013

Directorate G - Media and Data EUROPEAN COMMISSION The Communication Networks, Content & Technology Directorate General (DG CONNECT) Directorate G - Media and Data G1: Converging Media and Content G2: Creativity G3: Data Value Chain G4: Inclusion, Skills and Youth  G5: Administration and Finance

Data in the Digital Agenda for Europe Open data strategy Publicly funded data should be available for all to use: unused potential of 40 billion EUR a year Statistics, geo-information, companies registers, legal information, publicly funded research data Data is everywhere (smart cities, cloud, eHealth etc.)

"Data Value Chain" vision Create social and economic added value based on the intelligent use, management and re-use of data sources in Europe. This will lead to: - increased business intelligence and efficiency of private and public sectors - world class applications - new business opportunities involving SMEs

Open Data - Respect privacy! Open data strategy Modification of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information: broader scope, right of re-use Open data portals: EC open data portal beta available (www.open-data.europa.eu) LOD2 project: http://publicdata.eu Reuse of research publications & data: Commission communication July 2012: towards open research data Open Data - Respect privacy!

Big Data and Research, the context What has changed? The 4 V's: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value Different dimensions of the data value-chain Data lifecycle: production, use, storage/preservation Added value: data validation, aggregation and pre-processing, analysis and visualisation, added-value services (e.g. decision support systems, apps) Is there a European data industry?

Funding Big Data in EU programmes Past: FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR Current: FP7 Call 11 – Objective 4.2 "Scalable data analytics" – closes 16/04/2013 – 31 MEUR Future: Horizon 2020 – Big and smart Data – Work programme 2014-15 under preparation

Funding Big Data in FP7 (past) FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR - 17 projects Some examples of funded projects: BIG - Big Data Public Private Forum AXLE - Advanced Analytics for EXtremely Large European Databases BIOASQ - A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering GEOKNOW - Making the Web an Exploratory place for Geospatial Knowledge LINKEDUP - Linking Web Data for Education Project MEDIAMIXER - Community set-up and networking for the reMIXing of online MEDIA fragments NEWSREADER - Building structured event indexes of large volumes of financial and economic data for decision making SEMAGROW - Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures

ICT-2013.4.2 Scalable data analytics Funding Big Data in FP7 (current) ICT-2013.4.2 Scalable data analytics Budget: 31M€ - Deadline 16 April 2013 Novel algorithms, fast-growing data types (e.g. 3D, genomics), non-traditional database architectures 2020 roadmap for hardware optimizations for data analytics 2020 roadmap for societal aspects (data markets, reuse, personal data privacy)

Outlook - Horizon 2020 Roadmap-based research Integration of research & innovation to maximise impact Big & smart data as an element in the Industrial leadership (research & innovation) Smart = make sense of the (big) data, e.g. by deep analysis, language technology Data cutting across Societal challenges 10

Conclusion ‘Big and smart' data has the future Share, collect, make sense & deliver Applications and services + re-use Open data strategy: towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe Build a European data ecosystem

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