Opening up public data resources

- PSI re-use within the open data strategy

Luis FerrãoEuropean Commission

EVPSI and LAPSI Final MeetingTorino, 9 and 10 July 2012

Re-use of PSI – the wider picture

A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Action 3: Open up public

data resources for re-use

The challenge

• PSI: a raw material of major importance for new value-added information services

• Market gap with major partners

• Barriers remain at European level (formats, cross-border availability, diverging re-use conditions…)

Market gap

• Economic value of PSI:

• < 1% EU GDP (G. Vickery 2011)

• > 7% of US GDP (M. Ricolfi 2012, Pira 2000)

Towards an open data landscape

Minimum legal framework has been put in place for opening up public data

ICT developments spurred advances in data production, analysis, processing and exploitation

Open government policies adopted in several Member States for transparency, administrative efficiency and re-use potential reasons

Open data – national level

Open data – local level

The Commission open data strategy- adopted 12.12.2011

• Open data Communication (COM(2011) 882 final)

Enhanced re-use policy•Amendements to PSI Directive (proposal)•New Commission re-use Decision (2011/833/EU)

Open "data.eu" portal

2003 Directive v. 2011 proposal

• More openess• open government licences

• More transparency• Open data portals

• More reusability• Open, machine-readable formats• Downwards trend on charging

Wider scope• cultural institutions (libraries, archives…)

Additional features (2011 proposal)

• Guidance • Cost calculation• Licensing• Machine-readable formats

• Coordination• independent regulators

Monitoring• Yearly reporting on extent and conditions of PSI reuse

What lies ahead?• 2012

• open portal of the Commission• Amended PSI Directive*

• 2013 • Pan-European open data portal• amended PSI Directive*

• 2014-2020: European digital services infrastructure (under the 'Connecting Europe Facility' programme*)

• * Subject to adoption of the required legal instruments

To know more

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/index_en.htm

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