SOBIGDATA++ 

SoBigData++ strives to deliver a distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for big social data analytics, coupled with the consolidation of a cross-disciplinary European research community, aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally-interconnected society. SoBigData++ is set to advance on such ambitious tasks thanks to SoBigData, the predecessor project that started this construction in 2015. Becoming an advanced community, SoBigData++ will strengthen its tools and services to empower researchers and innovators through a platform for the design and execution of large-scale social mining experiments. It will be open to users with diverse background, accessible on project cloud (aligned with EOSC) and also exploiting supercomputing facilities. Pushing the FAIR principles further, SoBigData++ will render social mining experiments more easily designed, adjusted and repeatable by domain experts that are not data scientists. SoBigData++ will move forward from a starting community of pioneers to a wide and diverse scientific movement, capable of empowering the next generation of responsible social data scientists, engaged in the grand societal challenges laid out in its exploratories: Societal Debates and Online Misinformation, Sustainable Cities for Citizens, Demography, Economics & Finance 2.0, Migration Studies, Sport Data Science, Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Explainable Machine Learning. SoBigData++ will advance from the awareness of ethical and legal challenges to concrete tools that operationalise ethics with value-sensitive design, incorporating values and norms for privacy protection, fairness, transparency and pluralism. SoBigData++ will deliver an accelerator of data-driven innovation that facilitates the collaboration with industry to develop joint pilot projects in the full respect of the relevant ethico-legal framework. Exactly from a legal perspective, the concrete experiences of the SoBigData association will serve as a basis for the development of legal guidelines and public opinions regarding the most important issues in the field of data-driven research, especially in the fields of data protection and intellectual property laws.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL PAPERS

AWARENESS PANELS

  • 22nd July 2020: Data Protection for Research and Statistical Purposes: Towards Legally Attentive Datathons (Speakers, Prof. G. Comandè; Dr. Giulia Schneider; Dr. Denise Amram, SSSA)
    Involved Partner: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

  • 10th November 2020 : Research Infrastructures Platforms: Data Protection & IP issues (speakers, Prof. G. Comande’; Prof. C. Sganga; Dr. Giulia Priora; Dr. Giulia Schneider, SSSA).
    Involved Partner: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

  • February 2021 (forthcoming): Research and Vulnerable Participants: Data Protection and Beyond (speakers, Dr. Denise Amram, SSA; Dr. Gianclaudio Malgieri, VUB).
    Involved Partner: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

  • March 2021 (forthcoming): Health Data Management from Early Detection to Treatment: Ethical Legal Issues (speakers Prof. G. Comande’; Dr. Denise Amram; Dr. Giulia Schneider, SSSA).
    Involved Partner: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

  • May 2021 (forthcoming): AI and Chronical Diseases: Current and Future Regulatory Challenges (speakers Prof. G. Comande’; Dr. Denise Amram; Dr. Andrea Parziale, SSSA).
    Involved Partner: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa