ICT Researcher and Consultant
Assistant professor and researcher in the field of data economics at the ICT Group of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Regulatory & Strategy Consultant. Previous experience as Researcher at IMDEA Networks, as Principal at Axon Consulting, as Senior Manager at Deloitte, as Project Manager at Telefónica I+D.
Led +110 consulting projects on regulation & public policy, strategy, and operations. Clients have been telcos, regulatory authorities and governments in +25 countries in EMEA and Latin America. Received:
- A PhD in Telematics Engineering by Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (2023)
- A Master of Arts in Economics by Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2012)
- A MSc in Telecom Engineering from Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (2001)
Published relevant papers related to the data economy in top venues like IEEE ICDE, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Sigmod Record, and ACM Sigspatial.
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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…
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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…
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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].…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 