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Map of Europe with arrows symbolising data flows and survey hashtag
The Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) is currently working on setting up the European Data Flow Monitoring to map data flows across the European Union (EU).
In this context, DG CONNECT, in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre, is launching a voluntary survey for companies and public entities to gather aggregated and anonymised data on:
- The amount of data stored within cloud infrastructures by companies and public entities within the EU (i.e. data stocks) and;
- Data moved from one cloud infrastructure to another across the EU (i.e. data flows).
The gathered data from the survey will then be used for the development of a publicly available aggregated European mapping of current data stocks and flows across the EU territory .
Companies and public entities are encouraged to give their input to the survey.