[euopendata] Study says charge for public data...

Thu Jan 13 11:43:11 UTC 2011

Hi all,

On 13.01.2011, at 12:24, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Folks might also be interested in this thread:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/2010-August/000154.html
> 
> We should start a comprehensive bibliography (possibly as part of
> Working Group on Open Government Data, not the Working Group on EU
> Open Data, as I would guess this should probably be international in
> scope).

since this is a very important topic that keeps on coming up again and again I do agree with Jonathan that we should start a comprehensive bibliography as part of the OGD mapping project.

> 
> Federico: might you be up for putting this together / maintaining this
> with me at some point?

I am also up for this.

Greetings
Daniel

> 
> When its ready, our Bibliographica project aims to help create and
> curate these kinds of lists of publications. In the first instance we
> could use a Google Docs spreadsheet for this with basic info such as
> author, title, publication details, and possibly a brief summary of
> main points.
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Hjalmar Gislason
> <hjalli at datamarket.com> wrote:
>> This is not good news!
>> 
>> We Open Data advocates need to convince people in the government (once
>> again) how much more valuable it is for governments to provide free
>> access to PSI and thereby spur innovation, provide transparency and
>> save us all money.
>> 
>> I remember two papers that Ton may be be referring to:
>> 
>> 1. The UK Conservative's "Technology Manifesto" quoting Rufus Pollock
>> that Open Data is worth GBP 6 billion to the UK economy annually:
>> http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/open_data_worth_6_billion_to_the_uk_economy
>> 
>> 2. The UK's "Office of Public Sector Information" report from 2006
>> that argued that more open access to PSI in the UK was worth GBP 1
>> billion annually:
>> http://www.oft.gov.uk/OFTwork/publications/publication-categories/reports/consumer-protection/oft861
>> 
>> The general arguments have obviously been detailed in a lot of places
>> by a lot of people, including members of this group. Here's an article
>> I've used quite a lot to argue for Open Data in Iceland:
>> http://grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/Public-Data-Essay - but there are
>> many better examples out there.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Hjalmar Gislason
>> Founder & CEO, DataMarket
>> M: +354 860 3800
>> 
>> www.datamarket.com
>> twitter.com/datamarket
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Very interesting. Will read this with attention.
>>> I seem to remember other studies that concluded that any revenue to be
>>> gained from selling data would be marginal compared to the value created
>>> through a.o. commercial re-use. Though of course, I now cannot find pointers
>>> to them. (Any suggestions?)
>>> best,
>>> Ton
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> Interdependent Thoughts
>>> Ton Zijlstra
>>> 
>>> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>>> +31-6-34489360
>>> 
>>> http://zylstra.org/blog
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.apiefrance.fr/sections/acces_thematique/reutilisation-des-informations-publiques/economic-study/view
>>>> 
>>>> "The authors conclude that in times of tight budgets, the optimal
>>>> policy may be to charge for commercial reuse at reasonable rates
>>>> designed to cover the cost of the added value. This policy rightfully
>>>> shifts a share of the costs of producing PSI from taxpayers to those
>>>> who obtain a commercial benefit from using it outside its primary
>>>> purpose. Significantly, this approach would not diminish the overall
>>>> economic equilibrium of PSI reuse. For non-commercial reuse, setting
>>>> rates equal to the marginal cost of making the information available
>>>> would be optimal in most cases, as the willingness to pay for this
>>>> type of reuse is generally low. The study did not specifically address
>>>> the case where public entities competes with private operators and/or
>>>> are required to self-finance part of its budget."
>>>> 
>>>> European Commission tweeted this with the hashtag #opendata:
>>>> http://twitter.com/infsoe4/status/25495868148809729
>>>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
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