ICT Researcher and Consultant
Researcher in the field of data economics at IMDEA Networks Institute, and ICT Regulatory & Strategy Consultant. Previous experience as Principal at Axon Consulting, as Senior Manager at Deloitte and as Project Manager at Telefónica I+D.
Wide experience in ICT consulting with relevant projects on regulation & public policy, strategy, and operations. Clients have been telcos, ICT regulatory authorities and governments in +25 countries in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Received:
- A PhD in Telematics Engineering by Univ. Carlos III de Madrid in 2023
- A Master of Arts in Economics by Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia in 2012
- An MSc in Telecom Engineering from Univ. Politécnica de Madrid in 2001
Published relevant papers related to the data economy in top computer science conferences and journals like IEEE ICDE, ACM Sigmod Record, and ACM Sigspatial.
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ITU Workshop on Personal data usage
Insightful presentations and exciting discussions in the Joint Workshop of Q4/1 and Q6/1 on Personal data usage. It has been an honor to participate in sectoral discussions at the International Telecommunications Union. I’d like to thank Prof. Emanuele Giovannetti and Mr. Cameron Kerry for their great opening speeches. Special thanks to Mr. Arseny Plossky for…
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ITU Panel on personal data usage
Excited to be participating next week in the Joint Workshop on Personal data usage: regulatory and economic aspects at the International Telecommunications Union. The event will take place at ITU’s headquarters in Geneva next Wednesday April 17th. Digital transformation processes and implementation of new and emerging ICTs, including AI/ML and Big Data, bring the importance…
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Try Before You Buy to bootstrap data markets
Bootstrapping data intermediation service providers (DISP) is far from straightforward. This is because of the chicken-and-egg problem stemming from Arrow’s information paradox. On the one hand, buyers have trouble deciding whether acquiring a dataset makes sense before they have tested it on their ML model. On the other hand, sharing a dataset in advance means…
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EU initiatives to unlock the value of data
Data and AI are becoming increasingly important for the economy. Even though predictions about the size of future data and AI markets differ [1,2,3,4], they are meant to act as tailwinds to propel economic growth in the coming decades [5]. AI sits on top of the value of data, both personal and non-personal. However, due…
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AI to Regulate AI
Executive Summary Data and data-driven services are having a profound impact on the economy. Most countries have long been regulating personal data protection, and the EU recently approved regulations to address the failures of data and digital service markets, such as competition, quality of system design, monitoring of high-risk AI systems, service interoperability, or the…
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Happy 2024!
Back to work and fully charged after some restoring holidays enjoying family and friends in my hometown, Cuenca, Spain. Welcome 2024. I wish you all a meaningful, healthy, prosperous, and very happy new year.
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Talk at ETSIT UPM
Very happy and honored to come back to ETSIT UPM! I was invited to share my thoughts on the data economy with students of their Master in Telecommunication Engineering tomorrow, last December 5th at 3 pm. After my PhD thesis on the topic, we had a mind-boggling session discussing the ecosystem of entities trading data over…
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Upcoming Talk at Plamadiso
Very honored and happy to be giving a talk together with Alba Ribera Martínez at Plamadiso (Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society). Thanks very much to the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, and particularly to Dr. Volker Stocker for the invitation. We will present our recent blog post titled «Data Marketplaces and the Data…
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DMs & DGA: a Business Perspective
A pleasure working with Alba Ribera Martínez on this text about Data Marketplaces and the Data Governance Act: A Business Model Perspective, which was published in Kluwer Competition Law Blog. The Data Governance Act sets up a harmonised framework for the development of trustworthy data intermediation services in the Union to enable a competitive environment…
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A Retrospective Look at the Future of the Data Economy
Once my doctoral thesis has been finalised, it is worth reflecting on where the data economy is heading to and what future works may be worth developing based on the findings and conclusions of my PhD. During the defense, I was asked several specific questions about this, and I am leaving here some thoughts on…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 