This report reflects on three years of learning experience in identification of the best demographic data to enable the inception of better-targeted policies with smaller regulatory footprint. While using population microdata directly would be the optimal solution, the obstacles, such as the ris...
This AI Watch report analyses AI uptake in smart mobility. It recognizes that AI-driven smart mobility applications hold the potential to improve the management of traffic flows, enhance road safety and extend access to mobility to those who do not possess vehicles. In addition, by triggering ch...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an extraordinary medical, economic and social emergency. To contain the spread of the virus, many countries adopted a lock down policy closing schools and business and keeping people at home for several weeks. This resulted in a massive surge of activity online ...
This report provides an overview of AI Watch activities in 2019. AI Watch is the European Commission knowledge service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Europe. As part of the European strategy on AI, the European Commission and the Member States p...
The JRC‘s Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) was created in 2016 to help improve and bridge the interface between science and policy in order to enhance the JRC‘s capacity to better inform and influence the regulatory frameworks needed to address the new and emerging societal challenges confronti...
The background to this report is a one-day workshop organised by the Joint Research Centre and the General Directorate "Information Society" of the European Commission in partnership with EUROGI. The Joint Research Centre is running a project called “GI/GIS Harmonisation and Interoperability”. A...
This report presents the findings of an online survey on the use of spatial data to produce environmental reports conducted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in 2009. The objectives of the survey were twofold: on the one hand, to understand how easy it is for practitioners to obta...