News about Building a European data economy

The first meeting of the new Digital Single Market cloud stakeholder working groups will take place in Brussels on 17 April. The creation of the working groups was spurred by the Commission's legislative proposals of 13 September 2017 on the free flow of non-personal data and cyber security. These working groups will conduct self-regulatory work in the areas of cloud security and porting data/switching cloud service providers.

The European Commission has launched a new Horizon Prize on Big Data Technologies. EUR 2 million is available for improving electricity grid traffic forecasting in terms of scalability, accuracy, speed and use of computational resources.

56 projects applied for the CEF Telecom 2017-3 call, requesting over EUR 44 million of EU funding. The call closed on the 28th of November and has a total available budget of EUR 24 million.

First-hand experience of practitioners is essential to understand data re-use in Europe. The EU funded project EuDEco assists European science and industry in understanding and exploiting the potentials of data re-use in the context of big data and open data. EuDEco invites members of European organisations that participate in the data economy to take part in a short online survey.

The European Commission will launch in December 2017 a new Horizon Prize on Big Data Technologies. EUR 2 million will be available for improving performance of software for forecasting in terms of scalability, accuracy, speed and use of computational resources.

The final report on the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) entitled "Breaking the Mould: A New Model for EU Innovation Programmes" has just been published.

The European Commission has launched a study about cloud security certification schemes. The study results will contribute to the Free Flow of Data initiative with the intent to increase the adoption of Cloud computing in Europe. The authors of the study are now consulting stakeholders in order to get their views on the issue.

The internet and digital technologies are transforming our world. But barriers online mean citizens miss out on goods and services, internet companies and startups have their horizons limited, and businesses and governments cannot fully benefit from digital tools. European leaders have pledged to complete the Digital Single Market in the European Council conclusions altogether 10 times.

All the European Union Member States and EFTA countries signed the 'eGovernement Declaration' in Tallin on 6 October 2017. The declaration was signed during the Ministerial Meeting which took place in the framework of the eGovernement Ministerial Conference. This was chaired by Minister Urve Palo, representing the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU and in the presence of Andrus Ansip, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.

Free flow of non-personal data means unrestricted movement of data across borders and IT systems in the EU. It is a key building block of the Digital Single Market and considered the most important factor for the data economy to unleash its full potential and to double its value to 4% of GDP in 2020.