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Big Data is considered a strategic topic by the European Commission, which can contribute to increase European competitiveness, providing tools with high added value in the context of Future Internet applications and services, and within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy, launched by the EC to exit the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the next challenges. Building an industrial community around Big Data in Europe is the priority of this project, together with setting up the required collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations. BIG is working towards the definition and implementation of a clear strategy that tackles the necessary efforts in terms of research and innovation, providing a major boost for technology adoption and supporting actions from the European Commission in the successful implementation of the Big Data economy. As part of this strategy, the outcomes of this project will be used as inputs for Horizon 2020 and sustained beyond the project duration. The use of Big Data technologies applied to different markets is already showing a great impact by improving processes performance, and therefore, impacting the global productivity. BIG has selected a wide spectrum of domains based on several business and opportunity criteria. One of these domains is the Public Sector, as one of those with more potential benefits from the use of Big Data technologies. At this point, a first draft of Sector's requisites has been produced with the requirements for the potential use of Big Data technologies. The final version of these requisites will be integrated in the roadmap that will be produced in a later stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]