Towards EU big data economy

Kimmo RossiEuropean Commission

Big Data Paris4 April 2013

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The Communication Networks, Content & Technology Directorate General (DG CONNECT)

Directorate G - Media and Data

G1: Converging Media and ContentG2: Creativity

G3: Data Value Chain

G4: Inclusion, Skills and Youth G5: Administration and Finance

Data in the Digital Agenda for Europe

• Open data strategy• Publicly funded data should be available for all to use:

unused potential of 40 billion EUR a year

• Statistics, geo-information, companies registers, legal information, publicly funded research data

• Data is everywhere (smart cities, cloud, eHealth etc.)

"Data Value Chain" vision

Create social and economic added value based on the intelligent use, management and re-use of data sources in Europe.

This will lead to:•- increased business intelligence and efficiency of private and public sectors •- world class applications•- new business opportunities involving SMEs

Open data strategy

- Modification of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information: broader scope, right of re-use

- Open data portals: EC open data portal beta available (www.open-data.europa.eu)

- LOD2 project: http://publicdata.eu - Reuse of research publications & data: Commission

communication July 2012: towards open research data

Open Data - Respect privacy!

Big Data and Research, the context

What has changed?The 4 V's: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value

Different dimensions of the data value-chain• Data lifecycle: production, use, storage/preservation• Added value: data validation, aggregation and pre-processing, analysis

and visualisation, added-value services (e.g. decision support systems, apps)

Is there a European data industry?

Funding Big Data in EU programmes

Past:

FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR

Current:

FP7 Call 11 – Objective 4.2 "Scalable data analytics" – closes 16/04/2013 – 31 MEUR

Future:

Horizon 2020 – Big and smart Data – Work programme 2014-15 under preparation

Funding Big Data in FP7 (past)

FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR - 17 projects

Some examples of funded projects:

BIG - Big Data Public Private Forum

AXLE - Advanced Analytics for EXtremely Large European DatabasesBIOASQ - A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answeringGEOKNOW - Making the Web an Exploratory place for Geospatial Knowledge LINKEDUP - Linking Web Data for Education ProjectMEDIAMIXER - Community set-up and networking for the reMIXing of online MEDIA fragments NEWSREADER - Building structured event indexes of large volumes of financial and economic data for decision makingSEMAGROW - Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures

ICT-2013.4.2 Scalable data analytics

• Budget: 31M€ - Deadline 16 April 2013

• Novel algorithms, fast-growing data types (e.g. 3D, genomics), non-traditional database architectures

• 2020 roadmap for hardware optimizations for data analytics

• 2020 roadmap for societal aspects (data markets, reuse, personal data privacy)

Funding Big Data in FP7 (current)

• Roadmap-based research

• Integration of research & innovation to maximise impact

• Big & smart data as an element in the Industrial leadership (research & innovation)

• Smart = make sense of the (big) data, e.g. by deep analysis, language technology

• Data cutting across Societal challenges

Outlook - Horizon 2020

Conclusion

• ‘Big and smart' data has the future• Share, collect, make sense & deliver• Applications and services + re-use

• Open data strategy: towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe

• Build a European data ecosystem

Thank you!