Good morning, so I'm Valentina Stavary, I'm working in the cloud and software unit in
DJConnect European Commission, and I'm here to talk about Simple, which is an open source
software, can I just ask in the audience who has heard about Simple before?
Yeah.
So I'm here to explain you a bit more.
I want to be too long into the EU policy context, but just to put a bit back in the overall
context.
So you heard a few regulations, of course, that are implying in the digital, single market,
and they are very important for this.
And the commission is also financing the common European data spaces.
So the really, the sectorial data spaces that will help data sharing and facilitate
an accelerated data sharing.
And in parallel, you have also a reason for the initiatives that are financed in order
not to recreate from scratch every time the technical solution behind data spaces and
data sharing.
And this is, if you see in the middle of the slide, Simple.
But more recently, we had also the adoption of data union strategy, which enforced
the fact of Simple being key in the data sharing initiatives and being the technical
enable for this.
So this is a bit to give you a bit of context.
But now, what is Simple?
Simple is an open source software that enable data sharing.
And that is indeed enabling, sorry, to create, to reuse components that are existing
in the market and develop what is missing.
So in order to have the core functionalities for data sharing for all the sectorial data
initiatives and even beyond.
So just for those who are not familiar with data spaces, in any case, the slide will be
available, is just to explain what is the data space and what are the key components
of data spaces.
So with these governance that is key in the, in the, this framework of data space to ensure
secure data sharing.
And if we go deeper into Simple, what is Simple?
It's composed by the three products, Simple Open, being the middleware.
So that is free to use open source.
And you can, of course, contribute us of today to it's evolution.
You have Simple Labs being the testing environment.
So to enable you to test Simple Open components and also to test the interoperability
of solutions that are already existing.
So you're that as space, you're that initiative and you want to try the components of Simple
in order to potentially use or enhance your already existing data space.
And Simple Live, I will come back a bit later, is the fact of accompanying the data
spaces that are financed by the EU in order to help them understand how to integrate
Simple in their solution, in order to accelerate either their internal business processes
or being interoperable with other data spaces, which is key, of course, in some sectors,
like mobility, like like tourism, like energy.
Of course, this is key, in order to be able to share data with other sectors.
Just very briefly, the architecture principle behind Simple, in order to repeat
a bit that this is components, so it's based on components, so it's very modular.
It's open.
It's for free.
It's, of course, security, the secure and ensuring all the EU values is a data protection
and security, of course, by default, and interoperable because it's the essence of course
of Simple.
These, I will not keep longer in case the time is short, but just to give a bit, this is
the core functionalities of Simple Open, so what should enable the data space and data
sharing initiatives to be able to function.
Apart from that, so here you have the roadmap that is available and we'll be updating on
the website very soon, next week, and so giving a bit the timeline, so everything should
be finalized by this year, 2026, so for the core functionalities.
On top of this, we also launch recently, what we call the Simple Open Extensions, being
also able to accelerate also data sharing ready for AI and machine learning and also to
give the possibility to a sustainable business model of data spaces being the monetization.
So when you have data intermediary, that is enabling data sharing for different data spaces
and in the technical implementation, then you are also able to be monetized for this service.
And this just to give you a bit an idea of what is the journey of a data space that wants
to integrate Simple, so what we are doing is the fact that we go into a study in order
to understand the processes of the space and to see what where Simple Open can facilitate
actually the integration and the business processes of the data space.
I invite you, of course, to join our LinkedIn group and also to check the repository,
so you have the QR code for the LinkedIn group, and most importantly, it's an open source
project.
We need your contribution, so the code repository is there, so you have the QR code,
the code repository is there available for all the processes are there, every documentation
is there, so please contribute because this is a key evolution also that we need and to
be sustained and just also related to the conversation that just happened before on public
procurement.
We are this new way of procuring at the European Commission where we procure, we have companies
that are the usual players, let's say, in the IT services of the Commission, but also need
to develop as an open source, so we are more and more going into that direction, and this
is simply an example of this, so developing with procurement but an open source, so this
is to say, please visit the website, the GitLab and contribute today.
Thank you.
If you have questions, any questions, I see a few, yeah, there is one, two, a few.
Thank you very much for the presentation, finally very interesting ago.
Can you hear me better now?
Thanks for the presentation for the very interesting and I have an observation on a question,
one is, probably it will soon work as soon or replacement for the team, so you can post it
to post the link somewhere that is more open source and then the way to go.
The other question that comes to mind is, well at this point, we don't need gay eggs in terms
of managing data spaces and so on, so there is an overlap over the improvement on gay eggs,
by this answer.
Of procurement, is there a whole platform of improvement, though?
It's a kind of, let's say, an improvement or the way something that can be overlapping with
the AIX project is doing, looking at data spaces.
I understand, okay, sorry.
It's parallel to the grants, usually it's a grant that is implementing the data space,
so it's an excited, well, the simple has been launched to enable the data spaces,
but in the data space landscape, you have different maturity, so you have that
started a long time ago, but you have also a very recent one.
And of course, we will not reinvent the wheel for those that are already developed
and have a technical solution, but for the ones starting to start recently,
of course, we have the possibility to help them and to accelerate the development,
because of course, if you have components that are already existing that are already
any integrated, and we say this is quite important to be integrated,
so to have to cover your core functionality, of course,
this is accelerating the development of the data space.
Thank you for your question.
Thank you.
What are your priorities for a call of action to European developers,
because you said contribute, right?
But what are you looking for, more core developers,
people to help adoption in data spaces, extension writers,
testers, I don't know, so you have kind of a mini roadmap for external contributions.
The contribution are covering, I would say, all the functionalities that we are developing,
so it's of course free for any developer to contribute,
so if you consider that we miss the major process, for instance,
if you consider that we are not prioritizing the right components in the first place,
because you need that.
Yes, the freedom I agree, but you can also push some priorities,
because since it's a tender, it's opaque, not to the community.
So if you want something, I say, it's useful to know,
but maybe the developers could concentrate on what you know is needed,
otherwise it's generic contribution, I understand which is good.
So to give an indeed, we have a very busy roadmap this year,
and I think one of the key identified components that are critical for the data spaces is the federation.
So the federation of the data space is meaning that in the common European,
so in the data space at the European level, for instance,
you have a lot of local initiatives that are already created.
So the common European in the space is federation,
what are the different organizations,
and data space initiatives that are happening locally,
or were sub-sector, if I may.
So this is key, and of course this contribution would be very relevant to accelerate the development,
of the requirements, and then of the development.
So that's one of the things.
Okay, thank you very much, and you're nowhere to find us.