Unlocking Europe’s data potential: The EU’s Data Union Strategy for AI innovation
Streamlining rules, safeguarding sovereignty, and scaling access to fuel the next wave of artificial intelligence.
The European Union has been in active pursuit of increasing the availability of data for the purpose of AI development, as well as simplifying data rules. Artificial intelligence is a driving force in the current economic and tech landscapes, as it develops new solutions for various industries and markets. To help fuel AI with high-quality data, the Data Union Strategy aims to unlock the full potential of data and complete the single market for data.
With the launch of the Data Union Strategy, the EU is helping businesses stay competitive in the economy, providing researchers with data to train their AI, and helping consumers see more innovation and enhanced services. The strategy has 3 main priority areas to enable action: focusing on streamlining EU data rules, safeguarding EU data sovereignty, and scaling up access to data needed for AI. For each of these areas, a roadmap of actions has been implemented to help fast track the strategy to success.
The European Data Portal is working on enabling users to get access to data needed for AI development, as well as raising awareness on the new strategy. Recently, the data.europa academy hosted the webinar ‘Building Europe’s data future: understanding the Data Union Strategy’, which highlighted the Data Union Strategy and gave users insights into the European legislative landscape.
With this new strategy, the EU can work towards boosting the AI innovation sphere and help create better access to high-quality curated data across all industries.
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