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e-SIDES

e-SIDES is an EU-funded Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that will complement the Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) of the ICT-18 call on privacy-preserving big data technologies by exploring the societal and ethical implications of big data technologies and providing a broad basis and wider context to validate privacy-preserving technologies.

The principal scope of e-SIDES is to:

1 - Involve the complete value chain of big data stakeholders to reach a common vision for an ethically sound approach to big data processing.

2 - Improve the dialogue between data subjects and big data communities (industry, research, policy makers, regulators) and, thereby, to improve the confidence of citizens towards big data technologies and data markets.

Objectives

Objective 1
Identify ethical and societal issues of privacy-preserving big data technologies
Objective 2
Validate privacy-preserving big data technologies
Objective 3
Build a community of big data stakeholders
Objective 4
Enhance discussion, learning and networking in the community
Objective 5
Develop recommendations to facilitate Responsible Research and Innovation around big data technologies
Objective 6
Report on ethical and societal issues related to big data
Objective 7
Present the final recommendations in a community position paper

Phases

Phase 1

Create Awareness

Duration: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Main Goals:
  • Raising awareness about the project
  • Building a stakeholders’ community
Activities and Tools:
  • Webinars
  • Organization of events and participation in external events
  • Production of white papers
Phase 2

Increase the Potential Impact

Duration: Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Main Goals:
  • Increasing community involvement
  • Disseminating the results
  • Developing preliminary recommendations
Activities and Tools:
  • Webinars
  • Organization of events and participation in external events
  • Production of white papers
Phase 3

Results

Duration: Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Main Goals:
  • Building consensus and validate the project results and recommendations
  • Raising participation of community in events and on the platform
Activities and Tools:
  • Organization of events and participation in external events
  • Publish materials on the online platform
  • Publications on targeted online media
Phase 4

Valorization


Duration: Oct 2019 - Dec 2019 and Beyond
Main Goals:
  • Disseminating the final recommendations
  • Demonstrating the relevance of privacy-preserving big data technologies
Activities and Tools:
  • Demonstrations for specific audiences: presentation of final results
  • Publishing the white papers and community paper in national/international journals and online media

Timeline

Project Start
1st January 2017

Phase 1
January 2017 - December 2017

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    Webinars
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    Reports
    • insert_drive_file White paper: Real-life Examples of Big Data Implications View
    • insert_drive_file Deliverable 2.2 Lists of ethical, legal, societal and economic issues of big data technologies View
    • insert_drive_file Deliverable 2.1 Refined Research Framework View
    • insert_drive_file Deliverable 6.1 Communication and Dissemination Plan View
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    Events
    • event e-SIDES Workshop: Societal and Ethical Challenges in the Era of Big Data: Exploring the emerging issues and opportunities of big data management and analytics View
    • event Workshop W1.13 “Societal and Ethical Challenges in the Era of Big Data" Madeira, ICE/IEEE 2017 View

Phase 2
January 2018 - December 2018

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    Webinars
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    Reports
    • insert_drive_file Deliverable D3.2 Assessment of Existing Technologies View
    • insert_drive_file White Paper: Which data technologies play a key role to preserve privacy and security? View
    • insert_drive_file Deliverable 3.1 Overview of Existing Technologies View
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    Events
    • event e-SIDES Workshop at BDV Meet-Up Sofia: "Technology solutions for privacy issues: what is the best way forward?" View
    • event e-SIDES Workshop at EBDVF 2017: Towards Privacy-Preserving Big Data View

Phase 3
January 2019 - October 2019

Phase 4
October 2019 - December 2019

Project Partners

IDC ITALIA
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IDC Italia

IDC Italia is the coordinator of e-SIDES project, and leads the stakeholders’ engagement, communication, dissemination and exploitation activities leveraging its analysts’ continuous engagement with the ICT industry as well as IDC Conference and Events group.

IDC is part of IDC (International Data Corporation) - the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, IT events, telecommunications, and consumer technology market research, with over 1,100 analysts across the world. IDC's Foundation Research is based on approximately 300,000 interviews per year to ICT enterprise users or suppliers, leveraging a number of research tools, including: IDC's trackers, IDC's software market forecaster database, IDC's services spending model, the IDC Worldwide Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast, and the IDC Worldwide Black Book.

IDC’s participation in e-SIDES is led by IDC’s European Government Consulting Unit (EGC). The European Government Consulting unit provides research and consulting services to governments and policy makers on the development of ICT-based innovation and ICT-based competitiveness in the economy and society.

IDC Italia
Fraunhofer ISI
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Fraunhofer ISI

Fraunhofer ISI, Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, leads the societal and economic research and analysis. In particular, it focuses on the activities related to the review of existing technologies as well as to the activities pertaining to the design of requirements for new technologies.

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe. Its research activities are conducted by 67 institutes and research units at locations throughout Germany. International collaborations with excellent research partners and innovative companies around the world ensure direct access to regions of the greatest importance to present and future scientific progress and economic development.

The Fraunhofer Institute, IS,I analyzes the origins and impacts of innovations. We research the short- and long-term developments of innovation processes and the impacts of new technologies and services on society. On this basis, we are able to provide our clients from industry, politics and science with recommendations for action and perspectives for key decisions. Our expertise is founded on our scientific competence as well as an interdisciplinary and systemic research approach. Today, Fraunhofer ISI employs about 240 staff members, among them scientists from the fields of natural sciences, engineering, economics and social sciences who each year work on about 370 research projects.

Fraunhofer ISI
ELAW
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eLAW

ELAW, Leiden Law School’s Centre for Law and Digital Technologies, leads the research and analysis related to ethical and privacy issues and contribute on legal and ethical issues. In particular, ELAW focuses on the activities providing a starting research point and establishing common ground to further analyse ethical, legal, social and economic issues. It also leads the activities conducting to the validation of the emerging privacy-preserving technologies.

Leiden University is one of Europe's oldest and foremost research universities. It was founded in 1575 and is a member of the League of European Research Universities. Leiden Law School, which is one of the oldest faculties in this university, combines a high level of academic teaching with acclaimed and innovative research.

ELAW, Leiden Law School’s Centre for Law and Digital Technologies, is a multi-disciplinary institute that brings together a unique set of expertise on the legal, philosophical and social implications of the information society. eLaw conducts fundamental and applied research on the legal, social and technological regulation of the Internet and other technologies. The core of eLaw research focuses on the rule of law in the information society by studying fundamental rights and principles in a number of specific, often interrelated, domains across the legal areas of private law, criminal law, administrative law, privacy and data protection law, youth law, IP (copyright and patent) law, media law, telecommunications law, and procurement law.

eLAW