2 October, 14:30 – 15:30 CEST
The EU’s Digital Services Act introduces a mechanism for researchers to gain access to platform data under Article 40 — a vital step toward ensuring transparency, accountability, and effective enforcement. The recently adopted delegated act on data access sets out how this process will work in practice, granting researchers opportunities to study platform behaviour and its societal impacts.
Join us for this webinar with João Vinagre, researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), to unpack what this delegated act means in practice and how researchers can leverage these new rights. As a research organisation itself, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is uniquely well placed to understand and explain the opportunities created by these new rules.
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Speakers:
João Vinagre, Researcher, Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission
João Vinagre is a researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where he is part of the team at the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT). His research is focused on recommender systems, under perspectives relevant for the European Strategy for the Digital Economy, with emphasis on the Digital Services Act. He received his PhD from the University of Porto, having focused, in his PhD project, on recommendation algorithms capable of learning from and adapting to continuous flows of data, as well as methodologies to evaluate and monitor such algorithms in real time. Before his current occupation, he was a researcher at INESC TEC for 12 years, where he participated and led multiple national and international projects involving recommendation and machine learning. Between 2018 and 2022, he was an Invited Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. Before research, he had experience in the industry as software developer, system administrator, project manager and enterpreneur.
Moderator:
Joe McNamee, Senior Policy Expert, EU DisinfoLab
Joe McNamee has been working on topics related to internet regulation for over 20 years. Prior to his current role as Senior Policy Expert at EU DisinfoLab, he worked as policy adviser for a political group in the European Parliament. From 2009 to 2018, he led European Digital Rights, the association of digital civil rights organisations in Europe, working on major topics such as the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Copyright Directive. Prior to this, Joe worked for a political consultancy specialised in telecommunications and internet policy, where he led three research projects funded by the European Commission. During this time, he also worked on the EU’s E-Commerce (the predecessor to the DSA) and ePrivacy Directives. Joe holds master’s degrees in European Politics and in International Law.
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