BYTE:
BYTE Community Overview
Edward Curry
Insight @ NUI Galway
BYTE Work Package 8 Leader
Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinary community for
addressing societal externalities
BIG Final Event Workshop
Heidelberg, 30 Sept 2014
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Mobilising found data
Big
data
Data exhaust
Dark data
Found data
Data exhaust
Dark data
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Project details: BYTE •Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinarY community for addressing socieTal Externalities (BYTE) project
•March 2014 – Feb 2017; 36 months
• Funded by DG-CNCT: €2.25 million (Grant agreement no: 619551)
• 11 Partners
• 10 Countries
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Key outcomes •Define research efforts and policy measures necessary for responsible participation in the big data economy
•Vision for Big Data for Europe for 2020, incorporating externalities • Amplify positive externalities
• Diminish negative ones
•Roadmap • Research Roadmap
• Policy Roadmap
•Formation of a Big Data community • Implement the roadmap
• Sustainability plan
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Process for policy recommendations
WP1: Context setting
WP2: Literature review of externalities
WP3: Case studies
WP4: Horizontal analysis
WP5: Foresight exercise to identify future needs
WP6: Research and policy roadmap
Building the BYTE big data community
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Big data concerns: externalities • The effects of a decision by stakeholders (e.g., governments, industry, scientists, policy-makers) that have an impact on a third party (especially members of the public).
• May be positive or negative
Economic
• Boost to the economy
• Innovation
• Increase efficiency
• Smaller actors left behind
• Shrink economies
Legal
• Privacy
• Data protection
• Data ownership
• Copyright
• Risks associated with inclusion & exclusion
Social & Ethical
• Transparency
• Discrimination
• Methodological difficulties
• Spurious relationships
• Consumer manipulation
Political
• Reliance on US services
• Services have become utilities
• Legal issues become trade issues
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Case studies: a sectoral approach Environmental data •European Space Agency
•Earth observation programme, Copernicus
Energy • Statoil
Utilities / Smart Cities • Siemens
Cultural Data •The European Library
Health •GOSgene Initiative, University
College London
Crisis Response
Transport •DNV GL
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Roadmap(s) Case study insights will be consolidated and used to build two roadmaps:
1. A research roadmap that focuses on what research, knowledge, technologies and skills are necessary to capture a greater share of the big data market by Europe
2. A policy roadmap for the development, use, re-use and liking of big data
These will be produced in collaboration with stakeholders, especially advisory board members and members of the big data community.
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The big data community
Big data community
Academics
Industry
Policy-makers
Legal experts
Civil society organisations
•Initially comprised of AB members
•Intended to be as large as possible
•Final form to be determined
•A virtual and physical presence is intended
•Possibly organised into different working groups, tackling specific questions
•Will implement the BYTE Roadmap(s)
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Community building in BYTE Additional,
external stakeholders
Partners in other projects, initiatives, etc.
Case study sectors
BYTE advisory
board
Objectives ◦ To engage different types of stakeholders to
capture the opportunities posed by big data and address the challenges
◦ To implement the BYTE Roadmap
◦ To identify new challenges and opportunities posed by big data and mobilise stakeholders to meet these
◦ To capture a greater share of the big data market for Europe
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Big Data Community: Bringing together social scientists & industrial practitioners
Big Data Community:
Social scientists & industrial practitioners
Energy
Utilities
Crisis Response
Environmental data
Cultural Data
Health
Transport
Stakeholders in the Community ◦ Academics
◦ Social scientists
◦ Civil society organisations
◦ Open data activists
◦ Policy-makers
◦ Project partners
◦ Industry representatives
◦ Practitioners
◦ Computer scientists
◦ Statisticians
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Big Data Community dissemination
Big data projects, initiatives, etc.
BYTE Big Data
Community
Related projects, initiatives, standards organisations, etc.
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QUESTIONS
Any questions?
Key contacts: ◦ Kush Wadhwa, [email protected]
◦ Rachel Finn, [email protected]
Thank you for your participation!