From EU Social Economy Gateway
One of the actions announced in the social economy action plan was to “develop a code of conduct on data use and management in the social economy, in cooperation with stakeholders to support the uptake of data and technology”.
This ambition was reiterated in the transition pathway for the green and digital transition of the proximity and social economy industrial ecosystem, under action area 11 “Data sharing, data management & code of conduct”.
To support social economy entities in building capacity for the use of that data, the Commission has supported the creation of a ‘code of conduct’ establishing a set of principles for how data should be managed and used in the social economy and how it could leverage the existing potential. For this reason, a group of experts and frontrunners in the field have co-created this code of counduct in 2024. The final results and actual code were presented on 28th of November 2024 in Brussels.
The code contains a series of crucial values, a guidance with checklists and sectoral templates relevant to for data sharing practices. To show experience and potential, a series of 30 good practices of data sharing and good data governance complete the publication.
The Code can be accessed below.
