Contribution

The enormously increase of data availability poses new challenges and suggests new interesting road to  public and private data produces and providers.

The European Commission acknowledged these opportunities which can significantly boost European competitiveness in the global market and in scientific research. Very recently, the EU has created a solid framework for digital trust, through the publication of the new General Data Protection Regulation, which regulates the free movement of personal data, based on trusted and widely accepted data technologies.

One of the cornerstones of the building process of a common European data space

is the possibility to access and share public and publicly funded data.

This complex tasks has many important different goals. Here we mention a few of them:

1. Citizens’ secure access to and sharing of health data
2. Improving and innovating healthcare solutions, based on tele-medicine and mobile applications, in full compliance with the current data protection legislation.
3. Multiple and different uses of public sector information. In fact, public sector and National Agencies produce a huge quantity of information in terms of raw data which can be combined in order to produce innovative digital services and organize better policy making. To this end, the European Commission has also proposed the creation of a new Support Centre for Data Sharing, to be established in 2019.
4. Sharing Scientific Information, in order to facilitate the dissemination of results and to enhance the creation od scientific networks acrosso countries.
5. Economics: Business to Business (B2B) data sharing, which should consider the availability of “non personal machine-generated data” under the principles of transparency, shared value creation and the avoidance of distorted competition.

Even more interesting and innovative, however, the General Data Protection Regulation enhances and supports the access to private sector data for public interest purposes (B2G).  Data held by private companies, such as supermarket chains, telecommunications operators, car manufacturers, social media or online platforms could be of enormous guidance in better urban planning, market monitoring, traffic management and many other fields.

All these new challenges suggest a list of exceptional problems to be faced both on a legislative and on a methodological grounds

Related Session:

October 11^th, 2018
Session II.A. Open Science and Law: from Policy to Practice
14:30-16:20
Aula Magna of the Rectorate of the University of Florence