PSI for commercial re-use How to create a fair market ?

Rolf Nordqvist

Chairman

Re-use of public information

• eParticipation (open data for citizens)

• eGovernment ( public data used by authorities in smart public services)

• Non-commercial re-use (universities, research institutes …………… )

• Commercial re-use

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The Information Market

• The same as other markets where companies sell products and services

• Owners want return on their investments

• For that you need a persistent profit

• Marketing and sales are very important

Business processes

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Collection & enhancement process

Dataset for packaging solutions

To day

• Difficult to get an overview of available public information

• PSI holders claim intellectual property rights Conditions restricts use of information.

• Difficult to understand the pricing process

• Re-dress mechanisms are timeconsuming

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The market needs

• Access to re-usable raw data

• No competition with PSI Holders

• Less intellectual property rights connected to public data (=less restrictions for re-use)

• Fair pricing , preferable marginal cost pricing

Five stars PSI Countries • A special national regulation for PSI re-use

• A clear defintion of the public task

• A regulatory authority for supervision of the market

• Resourses to support re-use of PSI

• A simple, clear process for re-dress

Five star PSI Holder

• Information about assets on web page

• A person/unit responsible for contact

• Solutions for raw-data delivery

• Resources to support the re-users

• Pricing based upon marginal cost

Commercial re-use and open data

• Open data is essential for commercial re-use

• But the access to information is not regulated in the PSI Directive and differs from country-country

• It is very important to have licensies/agreements with PSI Holders to run our businesses

• Open standards are good but re-use conditions, pricing and support are equally important

• Regarding pricing we are ready to pay for the costs that we cause the authority (marginal cost)

Summary

• A cooperation between ”the open data movement” and the re-users can open up for more data to be re-used for different purposes

• We need a mutual understanding regarding our ”business-models”

• Education- is a key word for PSI Holders and Re-Users. Let us join in helping them with this.

Rolf Nordqvist rolf.nordqvist@bisnode.com