🚀 Simpl’s Inaugural Community Event: A Milestone for Data Spaces!

On Jan 30, 2025, experts & policymakers gathered at Autoworld Brussels to advance data accessibility & interoperability.

💡 Key Takeaways:
🔹 Simpl-Open MVP: Secure data exchange
🔹 Simpl-Labs: Testbed for data spaces
🔹 Simpl-Live: Feasibility study insights

👏 Thanks to all speakers & attendees!

🔗 Stay connected: https://www.ds4sscc.eu/

#DataSpaces #Interoperability #EUDataStrategy #SmartCommunities #DigitalTransformation

I arrived in Malta yesterday for EuroGeographics'general assembly. Tomorrow I will kick off the second day with a presentation on the #eudatastrategy and #dataspace and what it might mean for the heads of 40 or so national mapping, cadastral and land registry authorities.

Unlike the #EUdataStrategy, AI should still be "based on European values and rules". #digitalEU #AIwhitepaper

#Health: obvious, cross-border access to and portability for your #ElectronicHealthRecord. Oh, "secure access", of course. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

What is a #GreenDeal #DataSpace, you ask? @EU_Commission@twitter.com imagines "Digital 'product passports' […providing] information on… origin, durability, composition, reuse, repair and dismantling, and end-of-life handling" #righttorepair #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU #digitalForThePlanet

"#DataSpaces" are supposed to create market ecosystems for nine areas: Industry/Manufacturing, #GreenDeal, Mobility, Health, Finance, Energy, Agriculture, public Administration. Facilitating pooling, access and use of data from these sectors. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

The @EU_Commission@twitter.com
wants to address #energyefficiency of cloud computing ahead of a cloud framework, that is before Q2/2022. How does that relate to its #blockchain flirt?
And should we need to rethink investments into "machine learning", which is essentially
⚡️ in CPU cycles to perform sophisticated probability calculus on mass data held in memory using more ⚡️. (Not science.) #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU #digitalForThePlanet #MachineLearning

The IPR framework is to be evaluated, including a possible revision (annulment please) of the #DatabaseDirective, and clarification of #TradeSecrets (see #Dieselgate fails in relation to trade secrets). #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

A possible #DataAct in 2021 "could" explore contractual regulation on b2b data sharing, "addressing issues related to usage rights for co-generated data" (IoT), and clarify #liability. If "circumstances dictate", even make access compulsory. (p. 13) #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

#HighValueDataSets: available across the EU for "free, in machine-readable format and through standardised APIs", see @vavoida@twitter.com's summary on the #OpenData Directive revision here (in German) https://netzpolitik.org/2019/open-data-eu-oeffnet-datensilos-des-oeffentlichen-sektors/ #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

Down to business: "legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces" by the end of the year (governance, interoperability, #FAIRprinciples). #OpenData Directive's #HighValueDataSets from begin 2021. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

#EUdataStrategy declassifies #blockchain compared to the draft and no longer talks of the "many new business models" it will supposedly enable, but still believes in "dynamic data portability" and "compensation model" virtues, whoever sold that idea. (p. 11) #digitalEU

Now for #eEvidence: 3rd country legislation like #CloudAct "raises legitimate concerns for European businesses, citizens and … authorities over legal uncertainty and compliance", the EU-US and Budapest agreements are supposed to mitigate concerns. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

Standard and "shared" (is that the new #open?) formats and protocols enable interoperability and quality of data. We said so much in the #OpenData Directive reform 2019. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

#Competition: the concentration of data with big players, their "data advantage" enables them to "unilaterally impose conditions for access and use", leading to an imbalance and "power advantage" when creating "new services". Same for data "co-generated … from industrial and consumer devices", that is your car creating data that only your manufacturer can use, but not your repair shop unless they buy a licence from your vendor. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

So there's no fully fledged #OpenData for private entities, but an encouragement to share (#sharing: bad word, let's call it #pooling). But, not a bad start for connecting a Europe with a massively decentralised industry in the field. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

Support the creation of #dataPools, compliant with GDPR and competition law(!). Incentives to contribute: "increased access to data of other contributors, analytical results …, … predictive maintenance services, or licence fees" (p. 5) #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

ensure an "open, but assertive approach to international data flows", with a condition: "based on European values" (values!). (p. 5) #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

No direct reference to "data ownership", but the increase of data storage in distributed IoT devices "opens up additional opportunities for businesses to develop tools for data producers to increase **control over their own data**" (p. 2) #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU

"increase" and "strengthen" technological sovereignty, concept of "data sovereignty" is gone. #EUdataStrategy #digitalEU