The Data Office: the challenge of promoting the Data Economy

Fecha del post: 16-02-2022

Oficina del Dato

The promotion of the Data Economy is one of the priorities of the European Union and of our country. Among the EU's goals is to become a leader in a data-driven society, relying on a digital single market where data is shared freely between member countries. To this end, he launched the European Data Strategy, between whose pillars it's found:

  • The development of a governance framework for multisectoral data access and use.
  • The promotion of public-private collaboration.
  • The empowerment of citizens and companies through training and investment.

As a result of this strategy, work is being done, among other things, on a Data Law (Data Act), continuation of the Proposal for a Regulation on data governance.

With this, the EU estimates that the Data Economy will reach a value of 829,000 million euros in 2025 for the 27 member countries and will employ almost 11 million workers.

The strategic context of Spain to promote the Data Economy 

Aligned with the European framework, the Data Economy is included as one of the main axes of Digital Spain 2025, the plan designed to promote digital transformation in our country. Among other issues, the document addresses the need to make Spain a benchmark in the transformation towards a Data Economy, also taking advantage of the opportunities offered by new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence or cloud services.

One of the measures to achieve these objectives is the start-up of a Data Office, responsible for designing and proposing strategies that promote the sharing, management and use of data throughout all productive sectors of the economy and society, guaranteeing good governance and security.

What are the functions of the Data Office?

Dependent on the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, the Data Office seeks to address the main challenges that exist today in the Data Economy, defining the legal and political frameworks for data sharing and governance. In this sense, toIt covers aspects of technology, standards, good practices, governance, encryption, security and privacy related to various fields of action. These domains, although conceptually separate, are very directly interrelated, and materialized within the concept of data space:

Areas Data Office´s Activity: 1. G2G: Development and monitoring of public policies based on data 2. G2C: Open Government and Transparency 3. G2B: Public Administrations as the first producer of data (datos.gob.es) and business innovation based on it (Data Act)4. B2G: Private collaboration in favor of the public interest 5. C2G: Dynamization of the concept of Data Donors 6. B2B: Creation of sectoral industrial spaces to promote the Data Economy

Among other issues, the Data Office is responsible fordesign, coordinate and monitor the "architectural reference model to promote the collection, management and exchange of data". To do this, it is based on the extensive experience already existing in the Administration, optimizing the use of existing resources.

At the head of the Data Office is Alberto Palomo, Chief Data Officer of Spain.

Where to follow the news of the Data Office

Since January, you can follow the news related to the Data Office from the Twitter account data.gob.es - Data Office. It offers news and trends related to innovation based on data and open data: news, information about events, use cases, guides and reports, etc.

In addition, from datos.gob.es we will continue to report news and expand content related to the Data Economy.

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