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Numerous advantages as well as some warnings, urgent establishment tasks and examples of good practices with data spaces were the central topics of today's consultation organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Among the more than one hundred participants were representatives of the European Commission, state administration, local communities and companies, as well as experts in certain areas of data management.
The gathering was greeted by the State Secretary dr. Aida Kamišali? Latifi?, who drew attention to the importance of data - one of the key elements of the digital and green European transition. The European Data Strategy, together with the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, forms the first pillar of the European Union's Digital Strategy. Its aim is to ensure a single data market and the development of a data economy, which aims to increase the development of data-based products and the demand for them throughout the single market. Our overarching strategy, Digital Slovenia 2030, also defines data as a strategic raw material and driver of a smart society 5.0 and emphasizes the exceptional importance of providing up-to-date, timely and comprehensive data. At the European level, the corresponding umbrella legislation has mostly been drawn up, and in Slovenia, the sequence of steps in establishing data spaces will be coordinated by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
Federico Milani from the European Commission (DG CONNECT) presented the state of data spaces in the European Union and the many advantages of sharing authentic data in business, science, innovation, decision-making, optimization, collaboration and partnership. In the 2020 data strategy, the European Commission announced 10 common data spaces, currently there are 14, from health to agriculture, finance, transport, cultural heritage, languages, etc. Some new data spaces will be created soon.
Ines Vlahovi?, a member of the expert group for business models at the European Data Space Support Center (DSSC), emphasized, among other things, the importance of precise regulations or rules in the management of data spaces and the value of synergies between data spaces, or their desired connectivity, Mariane ter Veen, who in the Dutch company Innopay deals with data and also helps many European institutions, and with examples from construction, logistics and business, she demonstrated the benefits of using the right data. According to her, when establishing data spaces, it is best to start from a simple question: what specific cases do you want to solve with the help of a data space?
Slovenian organizations also participated in the preparation of plans for data spaces at the European level. dr. Urška Starc Peceny, head of the Tourism 4.0 department at the Novi Gori high-tech company Arctur, outlined the path of developing digital tools since years ago they asked how modern technology could help tourism. Indeed, most tourism providers in Europe are smaller providers that do not have access to large platforms, but are now correcting this with the emerging European data spaces for tourism. Daniel Copot from DIH AGRIFOOD, based in Prekmurje, which helps with the digital transformation of agriculture and with the European data space for this area, particularly drew attention to the provision of functionality, since the platform is primarily intended for users, as well as for raising awareness with which builds trust.
Flavio Fuart from the Association for Informatics and Telecommunications at the Chamber of Commerce participated in the European project to develop a plan for a data space for smart communities in the EU. They have just finished the preparatory project, which will move into the next phase of acceptance and implementation in March this year. Fuart also presented the data space for skills and abilities and the importance of managing such a space. Collaboration and real-time adaptation are particularly important to him, as data is fragmented and the environment is constantly and rapidly changing.
dr. Martina Šestak, a member of the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics of the University of Maribor, devoted herself in particular to the technical building blocks for establishing an agri-food data space, dr. Domen Mongus, head of the Center for Smart Cities and Communities and the Laboratory for Geospatial Modeling, Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence at UM, where they participate a lot in the economy and are also involved in many European projects (for example, in the optimization of the redistribution of e-bikes in Barcelona and in the project for real-time monitoring of battlefields), he also pointed out the importance of supporting environments for the best possible use of data resources.
The three-hour consultation, with which Slovenia took the first step towards the establishment of data spaces that enable individuals, companies and institutions to enter a unified and trustworthy data market, where human rights are protected and the fundamental values ??of Europe are respected, was coordinated by Aleš Verši? from the Ministry of Digital transformation.
