The creation of a framework to measure data flows and estimate their economic value within Europe was one of the key actions of the European Strategy for Data. This study will assess, enhance and update the already existing framework for mapping data flows, the models to measure the economic values, growth rate and impacts to the economy of data flows and their underlying methodologies.
The study will also contribute to the future impacts of the Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data from a macroeconomic and growth standpoint and to the Cloud target under the Digital Decade.
As a continuation of the above framework, the upcoming study will:
- Provide a thorough assessment of the underlying quantitative and qualitative methodologies, databases, models, analytical frameworks and tools developed so far a) to map intra-EU and extra-EU data flows; b) estimate associated economic values of data flows and; c) forecast data flow growth rate and impacts to the economy;
- Provide a) an enhanced analytical framework for mapping data flows; b) an improved economic model to assess values of data flows; and c) an enriched predictive model to forecast data flow growth rate and impacts to the economy based on the existing methodologies, databases, models and tools;
- Conduct at scale (EU and worldwide) data collection to update the data flow interactive tool to be hosted on the European Commission’s website with latest available data on at least a) data flow volume and locations (intra and extra-EU); b) economic values of data flows; and c) data flow growth rate forecast and impacts to the economy.
Economic operators and technological research institutes interested in this call are invited to submit a tender via the electronic submission system (e-Submission) available from the TED e-Tendering website.
Requests for additional information must be made exclusively in writing through the same TED-link as above.