khalil rouhana director, european commission. purpose of the workshop to explore the potential of...
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Khalil RouhanaDirector, European Commission
Purpose of the workshop
• To explore the potential of data– value creation, business development, economic growth,
societal challenges.
• To discuss what are the best policies for data at EU level– Open data, investment in R&D, innovation policy, etc.
Our strategy
• Enable full exploitation of data held by the public sector
• Create the best conditions for business development along the data value chain
• Safeguarding citizens/consumers rights– Data protection directive
• Mobilise all policy instruments:– Regulation, Deployment, investment in R&D&I
EU Open data initiative(Open data package of 12 December 2012)
• Communication on Open Data: "sets the strategy"
• Revision of the PSI Directive (main regulatory pillar of the EU open data policy)
• Revision of its own decision on re-use of Commission information
• Open access recommendation (in the pipeline)
Deployment: showing the way
• A Commission Open data portal
• A Pan-European Data portal
• An EU-wide Open Data infrastructure (Connecting Europe Facility)
Our investment in R&D&I
• Funding for research on data-handling technologies under FP7 (€ 100 million in 2011-2013 )…and later H2020
• Funding for open data & open access pilots & portals under CIP (€ 22 M in 2011-2013)… and later H2020 + CEF
• Support for research data infrastructures (FP7 ) …and later H2020.
To conclude…or rather to open the discussion:
• Big data: what are the opportunities ?
• What are the hurdles ?
• What can we do ?– "We" means: EC, MSs, industry, civil society, etc..
AGENDA
• 9h30: Welcome by Chair Khalil Rouhana, Director, European Commission• 9h45: Keynote speech, François Bancilhon, Data Publica• 10h00: Reporting from online discussions, Paul Miller, Cloud of Data• 10h30: Panel 1 - Public Sector Information (PSI) with examples from
specific application areas such as geographic information, business registries and transport.
• 13h00-14h00: Lunch• 14h00: Panel 2 - Accessing and exploiting data across languages.• 15h30: Panel 3 - Data-driven value generation.• 17h00 Wrap up - Paul Miller• 17h20 Closing note - Chair Khalil Rouhana• 17h30 – 20h00 : Cocktail