Digital regulation and researchers: increased collaboration for greater efficiency in France and Europe
Arcom today publishes the summary of responses to the consultation on researchers' access to platform data launched in May 2022.
The responses sent to the regulator identify the main difficulties encountered by researchers today, starting with restricted or fragmented access to data due to limitations imposed by platforms.
Yet this is an essential condition for the effective and consistent implementation, in France and Europe, of the European Digital Services Act(RSN), Article 40 of which makes provision for an innovative mechanism to facilitate researchers' access to data.
As such, the "digital services coordinator"[1] (CSN), a function that the draft legislation aimed at securing and regulating the digital space proposes to assign to Arcom, will be responsible for ensuring that the research community has the full capacity to use the new data made available to it, for contributing to the effectiveness of the mechanism for researchers' access to data, and for capitalizing fully on the knowledge produced by researchers.
This knowledge is an essential asset for the new regulation, built in the interests of Internet users. It is also a tremendous opportunity to help as many people as possible understand the challenges posed by transformations in the digital space.
Browse the summary of responses to the consultation and Arcom's proposals.
Browse Arcom's response to the European Commission's public consultation on access to data
Find the call for papers for the second "Arcom Study Day" to be held on November 16, 2023
[1] The CSN ensures the coherent implementation of the European regulation at national level and supervises the obligations of services established on its territory. The CSN sits on a European Digital Services Committee and participates in the supervision of very large online platforms and search engines falling within the competence of the European Commission. The draft legislation to secure and regulate the digital space currently being examined by the French senate makes provision for the designation of Arcom as CSN for France.
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