1. Share-PSI.eu
“Just as the supply of basic physical infrastructure – power,
transport, telecommunications – is essential to the traditional
economy, the supply of basic information ‘infrastructure’ –
core datasets– is essential to the information economy.”
Access to Public Sector Information, Law, Technology & Policy ,
Sydney University Press, 2010
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2. Share-PSI.eu
― EU agenda – policy, industry, governments/admins…a
15-27 b € market (EU)
― Cost of non-interoperability
 Micro-markets limit network effects
 Dominant players pre-empt markets…open innovation?
― Share-PSI
 Technical Interoperability
 Legal Interoperability
 Economic/business models
 Cultural/mindset
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3. Initial steps
(Workshop 10-11 May Brussels)
― State of play and terms of the debate(s)
― Community-building (supporters & beyond)
― Validate problem statements with larger community and gather
input for DAA
― 80+ participants from governments, providers of services using
PSI, businesses (corporations and SMEs), academia and civil society
― Powerful use cases –for profit or not
― 2 days debates –sometimes heated
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4. Organizing thoughts
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5. Findings - Drivers
― Incremental transition rather than « big bang »
 Time
 Process
 Targets
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6. Findings - Barriers
― Clustered in 7 main areas
 Access
 Linking data
 From early adopters to mass market(s)
 Governements & admins: transition process and cost of transition
 Disruption of existing value chains
 Economic models
 Legal framework for re-use  licencing models?
 Privacy
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7. Legal barriers
http://flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform
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8. Access & Interoperability
http://flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform
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9. Business disruption
http://flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform
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10. Showcased at DAA
The Open Data
Challenge
― Demonstrate the power of Open
Data
― Ideas, apps, visualizations, datasets
― Organized by OKFN
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11. Build support and awareness  political buy-in
What’s next: more work!
― TechnicalInteroperability Enablers
 Standards roadmap, tooling needs and research agenda
 DAE: pillar 2-standards & IOP to address fragmented digital markets and
Opening up access to content.
― Legal interoperability
 Identify licensing principles  recommendations
 DAE: review the Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information, notably its
scope and principles on charging for access and use
― Economics of PSI
 No “recommendations” –publicize use cases, best practices
 Metrics
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12. ― Snapshots at http://flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform
― Report and online discussion at
https://daa.co-ment.com/text/GXXnDNBIU68/view/
― http://share-psi.eu/
― community@share-psi.eu
― announce@share-psi.eu
― @sharepsi
Margot Dor, ETSI Thomas Roessler, W3C
margot.dor@etsi.org tlr@w3.org
+33(0)680343416 +352(621)503051
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