Policy, Societal and Regulation

The aim of Task Force Policy, Societal and Regulation is to structure the debate and members’ opinions on a number of relevant issues in the domain of policy and societal implications related to Big Data–driven innovations. The task force will achieve its objectives by:

• Identify relevant topics of interest:
  • Monitoring activities in the Big Data R&I ecosystem, more specifically CSA projects that address topics relating to the TF's goals;
  • Monitoring developments in legal implementation and public debate in the Member States;
  • Select and briefly describe topics to be addressed;
• Structure the debate and members’ opinions:
  • Create overviews and analyses for the chosen topic;
  • Survey and interview BDVA members on the identified topics;
  • Providing input to the BDVA SRIA and other dissemination activities (such as Summits);
  • Dissemination of insights and results (whitepapers, presentations);
• Support other BDVA activities:
  • Review and contribute to position papers of other task forces.

The scope of the TF is broad; choices have to be made in order to get real results. Therefore, the strategy is to select one topic at a time, and to elaborate that single topic, resulting in a BDVA position paper, whitepaper, response to a consultation, track on a conference, or other results.