Interim strategy and charter for the big data community

BYTE will culminate in the launch of the BYTE Big Data Community (BBDC), a sustainable, cross-disciplinary platform that will implement the roadmap identified throughout the project, and will assist the European stakeholders in identifying and meeting the big data challenges, to finally achieve the scenario envisioned by BYTE for 2020. Although several organisations, some supported by the EC, like the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), are gathering stakeholders together to capture big data innovations, BYTE is quite unique in examining the economic, legal, social, ethical and political externalities associated with the collection, linking and sharing of big data. In fact, BYTE is focused on alleviating societal concerns and including civil society organisations in the community, as well as policy-makers. This interim strategy takes as a first-choice working hypothesis that the BBDC will channel its contribution through the BDVA. In light of this preferred initial option, BYTE has already begun a process of exploring such collaboration with the BDVA steering committee. This document outlines: an interim impact strategy, leveraging BYTE stakeholder engagement and dissemination activities; a tentative plan for the development of the BBDC, divided in three phases, with appropriate milestones until the end of the project; a tentative charter, including governance structure, membership criteria and activity types, aligned with those of the BDVA. This interim strategy and charter will be finalised in the third and final year of the project.