ePSIplus the catalyst to exploiting

PSI within Europe

Chris CorbinePSIplus Analyst

Reykjavik, Iceland, 5.09.07

funded by eContentPlus

Presentation outline

Section 1 Introduction

Section 2 Overview of Directive 2003/98/EC (EEA Decision No. 105/2005)

Section 3 Overview of ePSIplus thematic network

Section 4 Summary

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Iceland in the European perspective

Sq. kms. Population Countries (millions) (millions)

Iceland 0.103 0.3 1EU27 4.325 490 27Europe 9.9 728 44 World 135.8 5,847 200+

S1: Definition

Public Sector Information re-use

“the use by person or legal entities of documents (data, information) held by public sector bodies, for commercial or non commercial purposes other than the initial purpose within the public task for which the documents (data, information) were produced.

Exchange of documents between public sector bodies purely in pursuit of their public tasks does not constitute re-use.”

Source: PSI Directive 2003/98/EC Article 2.4 31.12.2003

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Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended Article 24

S1: PSI re-use diagrammatic perspective

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Private Value Added Information providers

Sector (for example real time road data)

Level 1

Member State level

Level 2Regional, Provincial level

Level 3Local level

Level 1

Member State level

Level 2Regional, Provincial level

Level 3Local level

European UnionLevel 0

PublicSector

Consumers (Customers)

Civil Citizens, Education, Research, Voluntary

Society Representative organisations

ValueChain

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S1: PSI data flows (internal)

Current or existingPublic Sector Information

available for reuse PSI moved to the

NationalArchives

New PSI & Updates to existing PSI

PSIDeleted

Wow opportunities galore!

Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended Article 25 paragraph 3 bullet b may need qualifying

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Temporal aspect of value of data or information

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S1: Data

S1: Public Sector Information

Total set of public sector data held by the public sector

Public sector data produced as part of the public task

Legal basis:• Data Privacy (Directive 95/46/EC & 2002/77/EC - MS compliant 24.10.98) • Database protection (Directive 96/9/EC)• Access to environmental information (Directive 2003/4/EC - MS compliant 14.02.05)• Re-use of PSI (Directive 2003/98/EC - MS Compliant 1.07.05)• Intellectual Property Rights (Directive 2004/48/EC - MS compliant by 29.04.06)• Public procurement (Directive 2004/18/EC - MS Compliant 31.01.06)• INSPIRE (Directive 2007/2/EC - MS Compliant 15 May 2009)

EU Treaty• Article’s 81 & 82

In the wings!eGovernment (COM/2003/0406 & COM/2004/0219)

Held by over a million public organisations within the EU and used by over 50+ million public sector employees!

There is no Data Access framework in place at the EU level. Within Members States the access to data and information is often based on the Freedom of Information

laws where they exist.

Few laws but the application of them within the public sector is as diverse as the EU populations DNA, fingerprints or images of the iris of the eye!

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S1: PSI Directive legal relationships

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Issues to think about in Icelandic context

- How are these Directives (Laws) regulated and by whom?

- Is the regulation consistent and seamless?

All Directives listed appertain:- to data either access too or use of;- to all parts of society

Directive 95/46/EC

Directive 2003/98/EC

Directive 2007/2/EC

Article 2.5

Article 2.1

Directive 2003/4/ECPrivacy

FOI Environment

PSI Re-use

INSPIREArticle 13.3

Article 4.2

1.07.05

14.02.05

14.05.09

24.10.98

Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended article 26

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The PSI POT

Legislation

Culture: Public Servants & Organisation

IPR Ownership

Locating it!

Data

S1: Data - the funnel effect!

Available for re-use

Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended Article 25

Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended Article 27 paragraph 2

Iceland Law 50/1996 as amended Article 24, 4th

paragraph bullet 2.

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An IDEA!

BuildIDEA

Viable?

Launch&

Sustain

ProduceBusiness

PlanViable?

Y Y

N N

Customers

Time to Market

Time factors that will be considered:

• Window of opportunity

• Time to achieve return on investment

• Period of profitability

Business testing & planning

• Market analysis• Resource analysis• Risk analysis• Price analysis• Growth analysis• Sustainability analysis

Considering the re-use of PSI opportunity!

S1: Assessing a business opportunity

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PSI Sold

PSI Free

PSI notavailable

Customer

PSI re-users(Value Chain)

S1: PSI Data flows

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Economic analysis: simplified model for re-use of PSI

Related areas that impact: eGovernment as public sector moves down stream,procurement, PPP

PSI

Customer

Producer

ProfessionalServices

Content Providers

Data, Games, Navigation, databases, etc.

Commercial re-use sector

Risk, Catchment, Design (architecture, civil engineering), etc

Information services, travel planning, catalogues, tourism, etc.

InformationConsumers

Other Data Suppliers

S1: Value chain

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Simplified Value Chain

Data Collector

Datapackager

Data Wholesaler

Data Distributor

Data Integrator

Customer

Data Collector

Datapackager

Data Integrator

PSI

LinguisticServices

Data LocatorServices

SemanticServices

DirectoryServices

PublicSector Trading

FinancialServices

S1: Value chain

S1: The European Union

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490 Million people

Multi-lingual(23+ Languages)

Multi-cultural

900,000+ public sector organisation’s (Employs45+ million people)

25 million SME’s (Employs75+ million people)

Euro Zone (2007)

S1: EU Lisbon Strategy

At the Lisbon Summit of March 2000, the EU Heads of State and Government set a goal for the EU over the next decade to become:

"the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.” (by March 2010!)

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S1: EU Lisbon Strategy continued

Liberalisation of Telecommunications

Liberalisation of Data

Liberalisation of Services

Building the EU Information Society and Knowledge Economy

PSI

ServicesDirective

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Presentation - section 2

An overview of

Directive 2003/98/EC

Presentation - Section 2

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Above available from URL: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/library/index_en.htm

S2: Background & history

• July 1988: European Council agree establishment of an information services market.

• 1989: Guidelines published for improving the synergy between the public and private sectors in the information market. (Sets out 19 principles)

• Jan 1999: Green paper on Public Sector Information: A key resource for Europe adopted by the EC.

• Oct 2001: European Commission adopts a communication on the re-use and the commercial exploitation of PSI: Creating a EU Framework for the exploitation of PSI.

• Jan 2002: European Commission publishes a consultation document: Towards a EU Framework for the exploitation of PSI.

• Jun 2002: European Commission adopts draft Directive.

• 31st Dec 2003: The PSI Directive came into force giving member states (25) 18 months to implement. (1st July 2005)

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S2: EU PSI Directive

Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information. (Published in the Official Journal of the European Union L345 31.12.2003 (Pages 90 to 96))

The PSI Directive is a legal instrument (at the macro economic level) which has the objective of stimulating the internal market by introducing a general framework for the conditions governing the re-use of public sector documents.

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Status as at 31st May 2007

S2: Establishing the PSI framework

Year MS Transposed

2003 15 10!

2004 25 10

2007 27 2

Total 27 22

EFTA

2007 4 1

GrandTotal 31 23

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S2: Establishing the PSI framework

EU27 Transposition status as at 31 August 2007

55%

11%

15%

19%

New Laws Amended Existing Laws Existing laws covered Not Transposed

Presentation - section 3

An overview

S3: ePSIplus - Purpose

The thematic Network will:– Support the implementation of the European Directive on PSI re-use;– Facilitate the major opportunities for business to develop value added

products and services based on PSI.

The network will be active for 30 months from the 1st September 2006 through to 28th February 2009 (which covers the period leading up to the PSI Directive review in 2008 by the European Parliament.)

Cover all Member (EU, EEA, EFTA) and candidate states

Covers all PSI domains

ePSIplus will focus on five major themes

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S3: ePSIplus - Major themes

1. Legal and regulatory progress and impact (including implementation of the Directive)

2. Public sector organisation and culture change (including compliance with the Directive)

3. Encouraging PSI re-use business

4. The financial impact of the Directive: pricing and charging (including impact on public sector costs and budget)

5. Information management, standards and data quality

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S3: ePSIplus - Meetings

1 Network kick off meeting held in Prague, 30/31 October 2006

15 Thematic cross-border meetings (3 per thematic area)– Legal & Regulation theme

• Meeting 1, 16 February 2007, Hague, Netherlands (Report published)• Meeting 2, 10 - 11 September 2007, Paphos, Cyprus

– Public Sector Organisation theme• Meeting 1, 11 April 2007, Prague, Czech Republic• Meeting 2, 8 October 2007, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

– Encouraging PSI re-use business theme• Meeting 1, 31 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark• Meeting 2, 19 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium

– Pricing impact theme• Meeting 1: 19 - 20 April 2007, Helsinki, Finland (Report published)• Meeting 2: 1 - 2 November 2007, London, UK• Meeting 3: June 2008, Rome, Italy

– Standards theme• Meeting 1: 5 July 2007, London, UK (Report published)• Meeting 2: 26 - 27 November, Riga, Latvia

All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web site

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S3: ePSIplus - Meetings

35 National and Federal level meetings– Cyprus 20 February 2007 (Report published)

– France 14 June 2007

– Iceland 5 September 2007

– Netherlands 27 September 2007

– Finland 2 October 2007

– Ireland 25 October 2007

– UK 30 October 2007

– Slovenia 7 November 2007

– Germany 6 December 2007

– Belgium 11 December 2007

Final Conference (May 2008)

All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web site

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S3: ePSIplus web site

Live: 27.09.06

Objective:

To become the first port of call for information on PSI re-use

Target5000+ Registered PSI stakeholders

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Home page

S3: ePSIplus - Publications

Quarterly Update (Newsletter) available on the ePSIplus web site

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S3 - Encouraging PSI re-use business

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S3: Summary

Assess and report on the impact of the Re-use PSI Directive.

Demonstrate (through the network) the improved understanding of re-use of PSI across Europe

Report and propose recommendations for the PSI Directive Review.

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Presentation - section 4

Summary

S4: Summary

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Public SectorPSIH’s

PSI

Framework

PSI Re-users

PSI Re-users

CONFIDENCEFRAMEWORK

FOR THERE-USER

COST EFFECTIVEFOR THE

PUBLIC SECTOR

Boosts the knowledge economy

S4: Summary

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PSI Framework Public Sector

PSIH

PSI Re-user

Central PSI portal Can be referred to minimal resources

Speed

Understanding

Standard Licence No negotiating Consistency

Speed

Online click use standard licence Minimal human intervention Speed

No charge No transaction costs Simple

Marginal cost- pre-published Minimal transaction

Costs

Quick

Simple

Charges pre-published No negotiating

Consistency

Understanding

Easy to assess

Asset Lists Consistent with good data management

Easy to locate

Exclusive arrangements declared and/or phased out. (by December 2008)

No negotiating Easy to understand

Separate accounts between Public Task and Trading task

Improved business management

Easy to understand

IPR Management (preferably waive IPR) Cost effective data management

Simple

One public sector data regime Simple Simple

Manage requests just as in FOI Regime Minimal human intervention Fast and simple

PSI Directive - the WIN WIN framework

The key to success is to KEEP IT SIMPLE!

S4: Summary

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The PSI Directive framework was established to:

- minimise the burden on the public sector of enabling the re-use of public sector information to occur without resources being diverted from the public task. (apart from the establishment resource costs)

- provides confidence to the potential re-user in that it provides a balance between the public sector defacto monopoly and the micro and small enterprises.

- is simple and easy so that it encourages micro and small enterprises to re-use PSI.

- time is of the essence

- allow innovation to occur

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S4: Summary

Implementation:

- Very poor across Europe as a whole - little political or public sector commitment

- Member States resource allocation low

- Regulation across Europe as a whole is almost non existent

- Where regulation exists decisions are not always enforced

- The spirit of the PSI Directive is not evident - approach often one of denial or resistance - partly a cultural issue but also due to competition between public and private bodies with public using dominant position.

- In some Member States public sector raising legal challenges over Authority of regulator

- Member State competition authorities have been so far slow to react and take action

- Member State Data Protection (Privacy) Information Commissioners decisions not harmonised.

- Task of compliance left to the Re-user of PSI!

- The value chain is complex and is not simply public sector upstream everyone else down stream.

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S4: Summary

Transposition:

- Is taking a long time and harmonisation even longer

- The purpose of the Directive has been misinterpreted in some Member States (considered to be an access law rather than an economic framework)

- Member State lead bodies often do not understand their responsibility (they see their task as a narrow one of transposition and not more)

S4: Summary

www.ePSIplus.netThe key to success is to KEEP IT SIMPLE!

The ePSIplus thematic network

- is devoted to the PSI vision and strategy

- is people oriented!

- provides a forum within which to share knowledge

- acts as a catalyst to change

- provides the only European PSI knowledge base currently in existence (via the web site)

- is for everyone involved in PSI irrespective of which sector the stakeholder operates within.

SO PLEASE STAY INVOLVED with ePSIplus

Is the EU PSI Directive and its transposition into Icelandic law?

• Entrepreneurial positive (it encourages innovation and entry into the market)

• Entrepreneurial neutral (neither encourages or encourages innovation and entry into the market)

• Entrepreneurial negative (it discourages innovation and entry into the market)

S4: Summary

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