This presentation outlines select legal, policy and research recommendations of the BYTE project in relation to big data analytics in Europe.

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Kush Wadhwa & Rachel Finn
Trilateral Research, Ltd.
BDVA Summit, Valencia, 1 December 2016
#bdvasummit
Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinarY
community for addressing socieTal
Externalities

2. @BYTE_EU www.byte-project.eu
Trilateral – Company profile
Trilateral Research is a leading London-based
multidisciplinary research, consulting and
technology development company
Our team collaborates across social sciences
and technology, to bring insights from each
into supporting data driven innovation
Small enterprise (SME) ≈25 staff members
Extensive publication list and excellent
international profile:
http://trilateralresearch.com/full-list-of-
publications/

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Trilateral - Select projects
„ Open eGovernment
Services
„ Needs assessment for
smart cities
„ Machine learning for smart
manufacturing
„ Process benchmarking
and evaluation
„ Open urban and
environmental data
„ Exploitation strategy
„ Societal externalities of
predictive analytics
practice

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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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Foundational
research on big
data and
externalities
Seven case
studies in
different
sectors
Horizontal
analysis of case
studies
BYTE vision for
big data in
2020
Development
of BYTE
research and
policy roadmap
Dissemination
of roadmap
and creation of
BYTE big data
community
BYTE workflow

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Methods - Case studies
Geo-spatial
data
Crisis
informatics
Oil &
gas
Smart
cities
Health
Cultural
data
Transport

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Project outcomes
1. Consultation, via empirical research and outreach activities, with a wide range of European
actors relevant to big data
2. A research and policy roadmap and recommendations, that enables institutions to
◦ Capture the positive societal externalities associated with use of big data
◦ Address the negative externalities encountered by some practitioners
3. Toolkit materials to enable institutions to respond to the changing landscape within the data
driven innovation industry
◦ Via best practices, guidance, legal recommendations, research priorities, policy actions
4. A BYTE Big Data Community that consolidates and communicates information from experts
about societal issues and solutions relevant to big data
5. Better support for European institutions to increase their share of the big data market by 2020

8. Research spotlight
BYTE RECOMMENDATIONS AND PRIORITIES

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Understanding externalities
§In BYTE we consider the externalities or impacts of
big data
§Positive effects or benefits realised by a third party
§Negative costs (or harm) that affects a third party
§Externalities relate to social processes linked to big
data, as well as the opportunities & risks that may
arise as a result of the existence of the data.
§Some effects may be unexpected or unintentional
IMPACT
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL &
ETHICAL
LEGAL
POLITICAL

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Externalities from the case studies
Positive
impacts
Negative
impacts
The same externality can be associated
with positive and negative impacts

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Select legal recommendations
Privacy & Data Protection Promote development of standard evaluation
Broaden privacy-by-design for legal and organisation safeguards
Include aggregated and collective mechanisms in data protection frameworks
Strengthened role for data protection authorities
Copyright & Database Protection Drop the sui generis-right on databases
Limiting the extent of copyright, including exceptions for data mining
Collective licensing
Trade Secrets Develop standardised solutions
Toolbox to fine-tune data flows

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Select short-term research priorities
BDVA SRIA inputs + BYTE considerations
§ Data as a service model and paradigm
§ Techniques and tools for processing real
time heterogeneous data
§ Efficient mechanisms for storage and
processing
§ Complete data protection framework

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Select Policy Roadmap actions
Design an EU/US agreement on data
Foster open data and abolish data silos
Define a strategy to improve public data
capacities
Assess the benefits and the risks of
sharing economy
Start a public debate on data governance
Balance the EU/US data relation
Turn Europe into a leader in open data
European capacities rival with other
areas such as the US or China
Help legacy business adapt to the
uberization of traditional services
Build a network of civil actors addressing
data governance
Short term (to 2020) Long term (to 2030)

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BYTE Big Data Community
A forum to build public debate on data governance
◦ Move toward building a network of civil actors
Diverse stakeholder participation
◦ Focus on civil society organisations
Feed information from civil society organisations,
consumer organisations, citizen representatives to
other stakeholders
Regular interface with BDVA members through
yearly parallel sessions
Industry
Academics
Technologists
Civil society
organisations
Parallel session at 10:45
Room 7
Smart cities
Environmental data
Health data

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For more information…
Case studies: Case study reports on positive and negative
externalities (D3.2)
Legal recommendations: Evaluating and addressing positive
and negative externalities (D4.2)
Policy and research roadmap: A roadmap for big data,
encompassing both the research and policy roadmap (D6.1)
All deliverables available at: http://byte-project.eu/research
Join the community: http://byte-project.eu/byte-community

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Looking ahead
Join us for our final conference
• 9 February 2017
• London, UK
Focus on smart cities, environmental
data and healthcare
• Data analytics for efficient,
responsive and innovative
environments
Meet key practitioners and policy-
makers Courtesy of Nathan Parton — Flickr Creative Commons

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THANK YOU
Any questions?
Key contacts:
◦ Kush Wadhwa – kush.wadhwa@trilateralresearch.com
◦ Rachel Finn – rachel.finn@trilateralresearch.com