High-level conference on data economy, Helsinki - Main contents
| date | November 25, 2019 - November 26, 2019 |
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| city | Helsinki, Finland |
| location | Helsinki, Finland  |
| organisation | Council of the European Union (Council)Â i |
Presidency of the Council of the EU,
Economy and the euro, Justice and citizens’ rights, Security and defence,
The high-level conference on data economy will gather a broad spectrum of aspects on data economy in order to showcase solutions and to define the principles for a sustainable, competitive and human-driven data economy.
The programme will focus on the theme of human-centric data economy featuring the public and private sectors, non-governmental organisations and civil society.
The conference is expected to bring together an influential group of 400 high-level attendees representing the EU Member States and institutions, business and economy as well as the civil society to discuss and shape the principles for future development of European data economy.
The conference is organised by the Finnish Ministries of Transport and Communications, Finance and Education and Culture.
In the Council, government ministers from each EU country meet to discuss, amend and adopt laws, and coordinate policies. The ministers have the authority to commit their governments to the actions agreed on in the meetings.
Together with the European Parliament , the Council is the main decision-making body of the EU.
Not to be confused with:
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-European Council - quarterly summits, where EU leaders meet to set the broad direction of EU policy making