This document summarizes discussions from Sessions 1 and 2 of the BYTE Workshop on Work Package 5: Foresight Analysis. Session 1 reviewed previous case study findings on how big data impacts various sectors and identified open questions around its legal, political, technological, and business model implications. Session 2 focused on identifying objectives and structuring problems regarding big data in the EU. Participants were divided into groups representing SMEs, large companies, policy, and consumers to brainstorm measures, objectives, and problem definitions in these areas. The results from the group work in Session 2 were then presented to the full workshop.

1. Claudia Werker
BYTE Workshop
Work Package 5: Foresight Analysis

2. Claudia Werker
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Session 1: Review of Previous Findings
The Cases
Health – Rachel Finn (TRI)
Smart cities – Sonja Zillner (Siemens)
Shipping – Erik Stenstrud (DNV)
Oil & Gas – Rajendra Akerkar (UiO)
Environmental data – Lorenzo Bigagli (CNR)
Crisis – Rachel Finn (TRI)
Culture – Rachel Finn (TRI)

3. Claudia Werker
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Session 1: Output Aimed At
a joint understanding about the cases,
particularly on the external forces (outside
the influence of the actors)

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Session 1: Open Questions Emerging
•legal framework, e.g. privacy and security
concerns or IPR issues
•Political changes, e.g. open access to data
•Technological challenges, e.g. set-up, use and
access of common platforms, collection of data
•External factors, such as environmental changes
•Develop new business models based on Big
Data:
• Changes in competition: monopolies
• Changes in strategies
• Investment in data infrastructure
•Relationship between private and public sector

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Session 2: Identifying Objectives and
Structuring Problems
Questions:
1. What are the objectives
regarding Big Data in the EU?
2. How does the EU perform regarding the
objectives (see measurements on the case
templates)?
3. Are opportunities emerging from Big Data for
the EU used sufficiently to meet the objectives?

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Session 2: Groups
groups are formed according to following criteria
 one coordinator:
 SMEs (Claudia)
 large companies (George)
 policy (Els)
 consumers (Scott)
 at least one person from the board
 at least one person from one of the
consortium members (if more than one please
from different consortium members)

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Session 2: Steps of groups’ work
5 minutes for each step
1. brainstorm about measures
• take the perspectives
of actors’ group
• start from the case templates
2. make measures operational
by units and direction
3. group similar objectives and develop an
objectives hierarchy
4. move up and down the hierarchy
5. prepare presentation

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Session 2: Groups’ Results
• SMEs
• large companies
• policy
• consumers

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Session 2: Problem Structuring
Questions:
1. What are the problems?
2. Why are they problems?
3. Who would want to solve them?
4. Who can solve them and how?

10. Claudia Werker
Information
c.werker@tudelft.nl