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identifying these bands, great care must be taken to the allocations for terrestrial and
satellite segments, ensuring both a path to the digital future and a guarantee for present
investments. Decisions on spectrum must be made within the first half of 2017.
3.6 LUX-TIR Private Transparency. The title of this project clearly contains an oxymoron, which
reflects the contrasting needs of providing privacy, trust, and security on one side, and
availability of data for analytics on the other side. Striking the best balance between these
needs is clearly a crucial issue. The LUX-TIR Private Transparency project aims at launching
a regulatory study for the identification of measures that can provide the necessary
interface between individuals who should be protected and big data applications, which
should be enabled. Alternative anonymization procedures should be considered,
benchmarked and tested. This project could benefit from the collaboration of several
institutes, such as LIST, LISER, the University of Luxembourg, as well as the Government. It
is a medium term project with a life span of around three years.
4 Public Policy
4.1 Institutionalize the implementation of a national steering committee tailored after the
Singapore 2025 model, composed of a mix of inside and outside experts, elected officials,
business leaders, academics, and civil society organizations, with an independent budget
and direct access to political decision makers, that can work with neighborhoods, the
school system, and local businesses, with the mission of providing an ongoing public forum
that can engage the entire country in the transition to a smart Digital Luxembourg.
4.2 Early adoption through strategic and expert customers: The Luxembourg Government and
leading Luxembourg corporations should position themselves as strategic customers and
test vehicles (compare the high-tech digital strategy of German Post and German SINTEG in
energy).
4.2.1 Create an agile delivery process that responds to the changing requirements of
purchasing of ICT products and services to ensure solutions meet requirements.
4.2.2 Ensure that Luxembourg has an exemplar digital infrastructure in and around urban
areas and administrative units.
4.2.3 Provide an integrated, agile platform, based on open standards which expose
appropriate data and service APIs to nurture the development of an innovative
ecosystem.
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