Reports and Studies about Building a European data economy

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Governance Board met for the first time in Buccarest on 28 January 2019.  The meeting organised under the patronage of the Presidency of Romania brought together more than 50 delegates of the EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon 2020, the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

Following an open selection process, the Commission appointed 23 experts to an Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing.

A newly published study analyses existing security certification schemes for cloud computing, and asks why they have not been more widely adopted. It also sets out the minimum requirements that an EU-wide certification scheme in cloud computing would need to cover.

The aim of this EU-funded report is to analyse the collaboration models between Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) and Cloud Open Source software development initiatives, propose practical ways to further strengthen their interaction and to develop a roadmap of actions to improve the integration of open source communities in the standard setting process.

The 2018 General Assembly was hosted by Sofia during the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union and attracted a broad stakeholder community. It featured the participation of Commissioner Gabriel, who in her speech highlighted some of the most notable achievements of the Partnership to date - such as the Urban platform and the Humble smart lamp post initiatives - and the increasing prominence of digital investments in the next multiannual financial framework.

The objective of the study is to identify possible commonalities and barriers for interaction between standardisation and open source processes.

The general report gives an update on how the EU is delivering on its 10 priorities, including the Digital Single Market.

This EU-supported study analyses the possibilities for using European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to develop the uptake of cloud computing, and provides guidance on how to accelerate the development of cloud computing infrastructures and services. The key message is that cloud computing has the potential to offer regions access to advanced computing capacity on a service and cost-shared pay-per-use basis. This can reduce the need to invest heavily in prohibitively expensive data centres, hardware and software.

This study brings quantitative and qualitative evidence on companies' approach to making available data to other companies ("B2B data sharing").

Although the European Data economy is still “emerging”, it is of utmost importance to identify and remove, at this stage, the barriers for its further development in order to achieve a well-functioning and competitive Digital Single Market.