The challenges of big data require continuous organisational and technological innovation in the institutions that want to use them effectively and fairly. At the Bank of Italy we have taken several steps in the past few years to enhance our ability to collect, store and exploit huge amounts of data, using state-of-the-art hardware and software. Other institutions are surely doing the same.
This workshop is a good opportunity to share experiences. Preserving the confidentiality of individual data is one specific challenge that many institutions represented here will often face.