The BAIDATA balance sheet in 2022

December 20, 2022

DESCRIPCIÓN

The world is changing at an incredible speed and a good example of this is the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, which is beginning to transform societies and revolutionise the industry across all its sectors. In the past, these tools were just another mean for companies to improve their productivity. Today, however, it has become a necessity, without which companies are left behind.

The generation of quality data and its sovereign use is the building block of this reality. And that is where BAIDATA comes in, the first association aimed at fostering the public-private leadership of Spain and Portugal in the data economy. To this end, it has created a community with the aim of joining efforts and actors with whom to develop pilot actions and training, promotion, evaluation, counselling, and internationalization activities around the sovereign use of data.

BAIDATA is an initiative promoted by the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), a leading European organization for the development of data spaces, that has made its resources, models, technologies and knowledge available to interested entities so that companies and institutions can share their data in a secure, trustworthy and sovereign manner, through them. All this with the ultimate goal of building a common European data space, such is the commitment of the EU institutions and its Member States in this regard. In this sense, BAIDATA aims to help Spanish and Portuguese organizations to be the first to join the data spaces and learn how to benefit from them.

A year into its existence, BAIDATA has already 40 members committed to the development of data spaces and one of the main objectives of the association has been to train professionals for these future data spaces, which has been a complete success. So far, more than a hundred professionals from close to 25 companies have had the opportunity to take part in the two editions of its training program, which is made up of modules related to the Fundamentals of Data Spaces at an international level where they have been able to train in the IDSA reference model and its main assets.

Likewise, BAIDATA has sought to bring together different organisations to set up pilot actions and use cases, as well as to discover the key factors for the development of data spaces in the different sectors. In this sense, after interacting with various clusters, associations and more than 4,000 companies, the initiative has managed to identify up to 34 challenges and needs in fields such as the automotive sector, logistics and transport, digital technologies or the distribution and supply chains sector, which has led to the launch of 3 working groups (Tourism and Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Automotive, and Mobility 4.0 and Logistics) to accelerate the development of new chains and data ecosystems in these sectors. In the meantime, since the launch of the project, 5 pilot projects have been carried out and also the development of an embryonic data spaces in the sociosanitary sector led by the public administration, through the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, as well as progress in relation to another one linked to the energy sector.

BAIDATA offers a unique opportunity for companies in Spain and Portugal that wish to connect their business to the data economy, through the development of infrastructures to have secure and controlled data spaces, training, dynamization activities and much more