The report on Establishment of Sustainable Data Ecosystems has been published

The report on Establishment of Sustainable Data Ecosystems has been published under our ELISE action. 

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse a set of successful data ecosystems and to address recommendations in support of the evolution of contemporary spatial data infrastructures that can act as a catalyst of data-driven innovation in line with the recently published European data strategy. The recommendations provided here cover insights into the approaches that can be undertaken in order to ensure the evolution of contemporary spatial data infrastructures into self-sustainable data ecosystems.

Five of the identified case studies and use cases were selected for in-depth analysis based on the “Data Ecosystems Analysis Framework”, presented and validated during the INSPIRE Conference webinar in June 2020:

A local data ecosystem illustrated by the case of Rennes Métropole and its Rennes Urban Data interface initiative

• The Geospatial data marketplace is illustrated by the UP42 use case
• Tracking technologies for supply chain is illustrated by SPIRE. 
• The smart agriculture is illustrated by API-Agro. 
• The disaster management ecosystem is illustrated through two case studies: The Brussels emergency services data sharing platform and the Danish Common Data on Topography, Climate and Water project preparing the country for climate change scenarios

Interviews with data ecosystems experts were complemented with desk research to enrich the analysis and to elaborate the recommendations presented in the current document. The resulting recommendations are presented in four complementary categories related to:

• the governance of the ecosystems,
• the engagement of the relevant stakeholders,
• the technical dimensions, and
• the overall economic sustainability.

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