1. European data policy: Data Economy and Data for Policy
ESS Big Data Workshop 2016
Ljubljana, 14 October 2016
Marta Nagy-Rothengass
Head of Data Policy and Innovation Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission

2. Data Economy has many facets
Data has become a resource in various sectors:
Publicly funded data, institutional and private data
Data offers new opportunities: Combination of different types of data (e.g. geo, traffic and tourism; business and open)
Data activities generate externalities, positive (reuse, new business models and services) and negative (privacy, data overflow)
Competitive advantage is to offer the right data to the right people at the right time

3. The challenges for the EU
Seize the opportunities provided by the data economy: higher growth, more and better jobs, better-quality and more personalised products and services;
Boost Europe's capabilities to embrace the potential of the data economy in all sectors;
Preserve European values (e.g. personal information protection, multilingualism)

4. Europe needs an efficient data ecosystem

5. Data-driven applications …
telecom
home automation
health
lifecycle management
water management
information marketplaces
traffic
management
market research
… will revolutionise decision making!
… have great economic potential!
energy management

6. EU actions 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

8. Deliver on the Free Flow of Data Initiative
Objectives
To tackle restrictions on the free movement of data
To address emerging issues (ownership, interoperability, usability and access to data)
DSM – Free Flow of Data initiative
Communication on Building a European Data Economy
Legislative proposal to tackle data localisation restrictions

9. In the meantime: 4 Communications adopted on 19 April 2016:
Digitising European Industry: reaping the full benefits of a Digital Single Market (Chapeau initiative)
A European Cloud initiative
Priorities for ICT Standardisation
eGovernment Action Plan

10. Open Data Policy Generating value through re-use of open public data
2013
Revised PSI Directive
2011
COM on Open Data
Currently: CEF call to support the generation, aggregation and cross-border/cross domain harmonisation of open datasets at all levels of government
2015
DSM: "Encouraging access to public data"
European Data portal
2012
EU Institutions' portal
2014
COM 'Towards a thriving Data-Driven Economy'
2011
Communication on Open Data (COM(2011)882)
Update of the Commission's decision on re-use (2011/833/EU)
2012
Launch of the EU Institutions' portal
2013
Adoption of the Directive (2013/37/EU) amending the PSI Directive
2014
Commission Notice: guidelines on PSI re-use (2014/C 240/01)
Commission Communication 'Towards a thriving Data-Driven Economy'
2015
Adoption of DSM Strategy: April 2015
Launch of pan-European Open Data portal:
Review of the Commission's decision on re-use
CEF-TC : Public Open Data
The overall objective of the Open Data service infrastructure is to help boost the development of information products and services based on the re-use and combination of open public data, across the EU
2016 call:
Open between 12/5/2016 and 15/9/2016
Budget: 3,5 M€
Co-funding rate: 50%
Indicative duration of the actions:up to 24 months

11. Open Data reinforces Big Data actions
Source: WISE study, 2014

12. Reinforce cooperation with the US on open data
Successful EU-U.S. Information Society Dialogue – July 2016
Reinforce cooperation with the US on open data 1
Reinforce cooperation on data driven innovation in public policies 2
JOINT PROJECT: In cooperation with CNECT, EUROSTAT and Department of Commerce of the US, the project will :
focus on a statistical programming library that interfaces with EU and US economic databases
Offer an integrated access to key indicators
Increase usability of open data from both sides of the Atlantic.
Design and development of a joint project on open data and economic indicators
to be implemented in cooperation with CONNECT, EUROSTAT and US DoC 3

13. Technology and methodology transfer
More than 130 members in the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) since October 2014
Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for
Total investment (EU+industry) to reach EUR 2.5 billion
Lighthouse Projects
Technology and methodology transfer
Innovation Spaces

14. Data skills : European Data Science Academy
Objectives of EDSA:
Ensure the availability of a sufficient number of skilled data professionals across Europe
Analyse the required sector-specific skill sets for data analysts across main industrial sectors in Europe
Develop data science curricula
Deliver trainings based on these curricula
Resulting from H2020 call ICT-15: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up in H2020 WP
Coordination and Support Action, i.e. main goal is not to develop a tool (as common in most ICT projects), but to identify skills gaps
Partners:
The consortium comprises partners from academia, research institutes and industry.
The coordinator is the Open University ( UK).
Further partners are
University of Southampton (UK),
Jožef Stefan Institute (SI), Fraunhofer IAIS (DE),
Open Data Institute (UK),
Royal Institute of Technology (SE),
the innovation platform ideXlab (FR),
the data science company Persontyle (UK)
Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

15. Data-driven capabilities: Transforming statistics into knowledge
Not only for the benefit of the private but also of the public sector
Public datasets are a major support to data-driven approaches for policymaking
administrative (open) data and statistics about populations
economic indicators
education, etc.
Other side of the same coin: privately-held data (e.g.from social media, sensors and mobile phones) are new data sources for policymaking

16. Data for better policy-making

17. Thank you for your attention!