Etiqueta: data
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Pricing Tool@BDVA
I’m thrilled to present a live demo of the data pricing tool at Big Data Value Association Activity Group 66 meeting next Wednesday 30 April 2025. This meeting will focus on the Economic, business and sustainability aspects of Data and AI and on the recently published AI Continent Action Plan and European Data Union. Many…
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My reads last Easter
I am writing to share with you the books I read last Easter: ‘La Era de la Revancha‘ (‘the Age of Revenge’), by Andrea Rizzi, and ‘Nexus‘ by Yuval Noah Harari. Albeit seemingly unrelated, they both address the profound socio-economic transformation we are living due to the technology revolution from different non-technical perspectives. Andrea Rizzi…
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What’s the data economy, and why should I care?
It was a pleasure giving my talk «What Is the Data Economy, and Why Should I Care?» at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of Univ. Pontificia de Comillas. I intended to raise awareness on this interesting topic. After introducing some basic concepts of the data economy, I pointed to exciting opportunities at the…
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CAMELIA – AI Ethics in Action
2025 starts with good news! We have been awarded an internal innovation project to educate engineering students in the field of AI Ethics using hands-on practical use cases. CAMELIA (CAsos prácticos sobre el Marco Ético y Legal de la Inteligencia Artificial, which translates to Practical Cases on the Ethical and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence),…
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What’s the price of my data?
The first prototype of my data pricing tool is ready! Are you a data owner willing to know the value of your assets? Are you a data consumer sizing a sourcing operation? The data pricing tool estimates the market price of a data asset based on its metadata. It’s user-friendly and simple: 1) Just type…
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‘Pay or okay’ and the Value of Personal Data
As a response to EU regulations (GDPR and DMA) Facebook proposed a paid subscription to Facebook and Instagram (by paying 9,99 €/month + 6€/month for each extra account of yours in Meta Account Center). These subscribers will enjoy ad-free services and Meta will not process their information for personalised advertising. From a legal perspective, there…
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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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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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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…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 