The document outlines a European strategy for data aimed at enhancing access to high-quality data for businesses, fostering AI development and competition. It highlights the importance of establishing a cross-service data dashboard, promoting interoperability, and creating trusted data spaces. Furthermore, it emphasizes the need for a robust legal framework and the integration of personal data platforms to ensure data sovereignty and effective data sharing.

1. A European Strategy for Data
Malte Beyer-Katzenberger
Unit G1 - Data Policy and Innovation
DG CNECT, European Commission

2. “I want European businesses and our many
SMEs to access high quality data and create
value for Europeans – including by developing
Artificial Intelligence applications.”
Thierry Breton,
Commissioner for the Internal Market

3. 1. Cross-service data dashboard, lowers transaction costs and reduces information asymmetries,
enhances individual agency, empowerment
2. Important function as a data flow switchboard in particular for data continuously connected from the
IoT; the
3. It is not only about empowering the consumer, it is about enabling competition and innovation:
Business will more likely trigger the exchanges.
4. Better point of integration with potential of having novel cross-data services; personal data clouds are
the best way to integrating data about one and the same person
5. Interoperability, data normalisation services
6. Privacy-preserving tool: You can extract more insights locally in the personal data cloud.
7. Outsourcing storage; fine grained portability, but who bears the storage costs?
Why personal data platforms are useful?

4. 1) Horizontal legal framework:
• Technical enablers and structures
• Clarification on usage rights (IoT, B2G, IPR)
• Consumer data portability
• More Open Data
• To be complemented by sector specific frameworks
2) High Impact project for common European data spaces
• Trusted storage and processing capacities
• Data sharing technologies preserving ‘data sovereignty’
• Roll out of sector specific data spaces
Elements of EU data strategy (continued)

5. European Data Framework
Rich pool of
available data
(open and
closed)
Free flow of
data across
sectors and
countries
Data
governance
(GDPR, data
sharing)
Common European data spaces
Health
Manufacturin
g Agriculture Finance Mobility Environment Energy
Personal data
platforms
High-value data sets from the public sector
e.g. weather,
geospatial,
statistics.
− Technical tools for data pooling and
sharing
−Standards & interoperability (technical,
semantic)
− Sectoral data governance (contracts,
licenses, access rights, usage rights)
− IT capacity, including cloud storage,
processing and services

6. Thank you for your attention!
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