Steering Committee of the “New Industrial France” adopts the Big Data plan

The plan will encourage initiatives to accelerate the diffusion of Big Data in a number of sectors, including tourism, transport, energy and insurance. The plan also allows for Big-Data initiatives to modernise government progress, for example to support employment. Furthermore, the plan seeks to facilitate access for start-ups both to the data of major public and private entities and to the infrastructures required to make use of that data. Emphasis will also be given to the training of data scientists**. In addition, the regulatory and legislative context will be adapted to the emergence of very-large-scale data processing, addressing the twofold concern of fostering innovation while protecting individual privacy.

The fourteen actions embodied in the plan include the following:

• The creation of a “Big Data personal trust space” developed by the Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (next-generation Internet foundation), in partnership with several private-sector businesses, to foster the development of new services by combining personal data, although under the control of each individual to which the data relates.
• The development of new services for job-seekers.
• Collaborating with CNIL, the French data-protection agency, on modernising the working of the French data-protection Act, gearing it to industrial-process certification in the context of complete ecosystems (e.g. the “networked car”).
• Support for Big Data accelerator and seeding-fund projects likely to emerge under the “French Tech” initiative.

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* Nouvelle France Industrielle Steering group was set up to reshape French industry via 34 industrial plans
** The profiles sought should have a comprehensive grasp of the statistical, mathematical and computing methods appropriate to a particular business context.