GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

In particular, this applied research project must develop, implement and demonstrate the concept of Trusted Smart Surveys realising a proof of concept for the complete, end-to-end, data collection process and demonstrating a solution combining the 3 key features of Trusted Smart Surveys namely:

•  involvement and engagement of citizens as active contributors
• acquiring, processing and combining data collected from smart devices and other appliances
• contributing to the trustworthiness by guarantying strong privacy safeguards

The project unavoidably includes strong technological components as certain digital technologies are essential enablers of the envisioned model (most prominently mobile devices, edge computing and PET, machine learning, etc.). This will enable deepening the research on non-technological aspects such as behavioural aspects of citizens in engaging and contributing to this new mode of data collection for the public good, building trust across stakeholders, ensuring the quality aspects of the collected data in particular with respect to the effects induced by the use of the technologies and the mitigation of the actual and perceived risks on the privacy of respondents.

The project must hence work out technological, behavioural, legal and communication aspects and propose a coherent model that is able (i) to prospectively engage a large number of participants as active and voluntary contributors in the statistical data collection and (ii) gain wider public acceptance of the development of smart survey in the context of official statistics production also beyond the set of participants