The document discusses the EU's initiatives toward establishing a digital single market focused on big data and cloud computing, driven by policy mandates from October 2013 and 2014. It outlines the strategic objectives for creating an efficient data ecosystem to enhance growth and job creation in Europe, emphasizing the need for industry-driven collaboration. Additionally, it highlights relevant projects under Horizon 2020 aimed at developing privacy-preserving big data technologies and addressing ethical issues.

1. Digital
Single Market
Big Data Value
policy context and PPP
Big Data Europe SC7 workshop
Brussels, 18 October 2016
Kimmo Rossi, Head of R&I sector, CNECT.G1

2. Digital
Single Market
2
Policy context - mandate
• Council conclusions of 25 Oct 2013 called for EU action to
provide the right framework conditions for a single market
for big data and cloud computing
• Towards a Thriving Data-Driven Economy COM(2014)442 –
framework conditions for a data-based economy in the EU –
mandate for the PPP
• Digitisation of European Industry COM(2016)180 – Big Data
is an important contributor/element in the DEI
• Communication & legislative proposal: Building a European
Data Economy (coming around the end of 2016)

3. Digital
Single Market
Strategic objectives
3
I. EU leadership in Big Data technologies
through increased investments
II. Create a data market
III. Create a thriving data economy – engine
for growth and jobs

4. Europe needs an efficient
data ecosystem
4

5. Digital
Single Market
Big Data is transforming Business models

6. Big Data Value PPP - characteristics
 Industry-driven – because it needs to mobilise and
transform (both IT and user) industries in order to break a
new path to growth and jobs
 Broad and horizontal – because data challenges appear
in most industrial and societal domains – need to achieve
synergies and create links with user industries, other PPPs,
Societal Challenges, national and regional initiatives
6

7. SC7 – synergies with H2020 LEIT WP
 ICT-18 Privacy-Preserving Big Data Technologies
 One of the five Big Data PPP topics in H2020 LEIT WP
 2016 call for proposals yielded 3 RIA and 1 CSA projects
 Blockchains, linked data, applications in healthcare, mobile
communications, analytics
 The ICT-18 RIA projects
 Will start 1/1/2017 (or earlier)
 Provide industrial use cases for privacy-preserving technologies
 Empower the data subjects to monitor and decide about the use of
their personal data
 The ICT-18 CSA project
 Addresses the ethical and societal issues of Big Data
 Cross-disciplinary, following RRI-SSH principles
 Will engage broader communities (data subjects, citizens, consumers,
NGOs...) 7

8. Thank you for your attention!
8