New open source business tools based on PIMS

Investigadores del proyecto europeo PIMCity.es, en el que participa la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), han puesto a disposición pública un conjunto de herramientas que permiten crear soluciones para que emprendedores, startups y PYMES puedan desarrollar negocios basados en datos personales. The development kit (PDK), publicly presented on 28 January during International Data Privacy Day, is free and has been financed by the European Union's H2020 programme. The proposed solutions allow companies to adapt to the new European data regulations and strategy. The EU's data protection strategy is setting an example for the rest of the world in terms of legislation and innovation. Its current priorities include promoting the development of products and services based on personal data which the user has control over. To do this, it is necessary to have a regulatory framework, accompanied by policies and tools that facilitate its implementation. "PIMCITY's PDK offers companies the tools to exploit user data in a respectful way", says one of the researchers participating in the project, Rubén Cuevas, from the UC3M Telematics Engineering Department.