According to the European Commission: “Data is an essential resource for economic growth, competitiveness, innovation, job creation and societal progress in general. The European strategy for data aims at creating a single market for data that will ensure Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty. Common European data spaces will ensure that more data becomes available for use in the economy and society, while keeping the companies and individuals who generate the data in control”.

Data driven applications will benefit citizens and businesses in many ways. They can:

• improve health care
• create safer and cleaner transport systems
• generate new products and services
• reduce the costs of public services
• improve sustainability and energy efficiency

In this context the EC wants to regulate the management of the data that are provided by public bodies to private entities, and vice versa, and to boost its use also for economic benefit. Concerning the data held by the Public Administration, the European Union adopted an approach aimed at making these data available to third parties and introduced the concept of High Value Datasets, identifying statistical datasets as relevant for economic interest and reuse.

Agenda

• 14:00 - 14:10 — Welcome and Introduction, Martino Maggio - Senior Researcher, INTERSTAT project coordinator, Engineering, Introduction to the Event and INTERSTAT
• 14:10 - 14:15 — Moderator, Roberto Di Bernardo, Head of Smart Government – Central Government R&I Group - Engineering.
• 14:15 - 14:30 — Keynote Speech, Emanuele Baldacci – EUROSTAT, Director of Resources , IT and corporate statistical services at Eurostat.
• 14:30 - 14:45 — Keynote Speech, Javier Orozco-Messana, European Commission, DG CNECT unit Technology for Smart Communities (C3)
• 14:45 - 14:55 – Expert Speech, Roberta Radini, Italian National Institute of Statistics – ISTAT, “Enhancing semantic interoperability through Ontologies and Controlled Vocabularies”
• 14:55 - 15:05 — Expert Speech, Nicolas Sagnes - French, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies - “Modernizing data dissemination at Insee”.
• 15:05 - 16:00 — Panel Discussion: Emanuele Baldacci (EUROSTAT), Javier Orozco-Messana (EC), Roberta Radini (ISTAT), Nicolas Sagnes (INSEE), Stefano De Panfilis (FIWARE Foundation)- Moderator: Roberto Di Bernardo (Engineering).

More information and the possibility to register can be found on the event website.