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

Thu Jan 13 13:54:19 UTC 2011

Katleen, Federico: that would be fantastically useful. Many thanks for
your respective offers to help with this. Perhaps we could arrange an
hour or so at some point to sit down and set this up? What do you
think?

Jonathan

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Katleen Janssen
<Katleen.Janssen at law.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
>
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> If you find somewhere to set it up, I have hundreds of documents that I can
> poor into a bibliography J.
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>
>
> katleen
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> From: euopendata-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:euopendata-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Federico Morando
> Sent: donderdag 13 januari 2011 13:01
> To: Jonathan Gray
> Cc: euopendata
> Subject: Re: [euopendata] Study says charge for public data...
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>
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> On 01/13/2011 12:24 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
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> 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).
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>
>
> Federico: might you be up for putting this together / maintaining this
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> with me at some point?
>
> I'm a bit reluctant to take up the commitment related to maintaining the
> bibliography, but I would be happy to help in putting it together. Actually,
> almost all the references I know (and some others I should read) are already
> listed here:
>
> http://www.lapsi-project.eu/biblio
>
> or here:
>
> http://www.evpsi.org/biblio
>
> We do not claim any right on these, but if you can quote the links before it
> could be useful, since we can post updates...
>
> Best,
>
> Federico
>
> PS
> Maybe some relevant economic stuff which is missing from the links above
> (including some works from Rufus) are listed just here (this is a - partial
> - bibliography collected by the members of WP 3 of the EVPSI project, in
> particular Lorenzo Benussi and Raimondo Iemma - some papers are not focused
> on PSI, but mentioned because of their indirect relevance connected to the
> models mentioned in the working paper from Lorenzo and Raimondo, that will
> be available soon on the website of EVPSI):
>
> Arthur, W.B., Increasing returns and the new world of business, Harvard
> Business Review, 1996
>
> Armstrong, M., Competition in Two-Sided Markets, University College London,
> 2002
>
> Caso, R., Proprietà intellettuale, tecnologie digitali ed accesso alla
> conoscenza scientifica: Digital Rights Management vs. Open Access, 2010
>
> Corbin, C., Public Sector Information Economic Indicators & Economic case
> study on charging models, 2010
>
> Corbin, C., A review of indicators used in PSI Studies, epsiPlatform, 2009
>
> Corbin, C., A review of economic studies on PSI that consider marginal costs
> / cost recovery, epsiPlatform, 2009
>
> De Vries, M., Regole di decompilazione relative al riutilizzo dei dati
> pubblici: verso un quadro concettuale, 2010
>
> Dekkers et al., Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources, 2006
>
> Fornefeld et al., Assessment of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
> (PSI) in the Geographical information, Meteorological Information and Legal
> Information Sectors, MICUS Management Consulting GmbH, 2008
>
> Hagiu, A., Two-Sided Platforms: Pricing and Social Efficiency, RIETI, 2005
>
> Newbery et al., Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading
> Funds, University of Cambridge, 2008
>
> OECD, Working party on the information economy, Digital broadband content:
> Public Sector Information and content, 2006
>
> Office of Fair Trading, The commercial use of public information, UK, 2006
>
> Open Knowledge Foundation, Beyond Access: Open Government Data and the
> “Right to Re-use”, draft, 2010
>
> Parayil, G., The Digital Divide and Increasing Returns: Contradictions of
> Informational Capitalism, The Information Society, 21: 41 – 51, 2005
>
> Pira International, Commercial exploitation of Public Sector Information,
> Final Report, 2000
>
> Pollock, R., The Economics of Public Sector Information, University of
> Cambridge, 2008
>
> Robinson et al., Government Data and the Invisible Hand, Yale J.L. & Tech,
> 2009
>
> Rochet, J-C. and Tirole, J., Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets,
> Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 (4), 1993
>
> Romer, P.M., Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth, Journal of Political
> Economy, 94 (5), 1986
>
> van Eechoud, M., van Eechoud, B., Creative commons licensing for public
> sector information. Opportunities and pitfalls, Institute for Information
> Law, University of Amsterdam, 2008
>
> Weiss, P., Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic
> Impacts, U. S. Department of Commerce, 2002
>
> Wright, J., One-sided logic in Two-sided markets, RNE, 2004
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Hjalmar Gislason
>
> <hjalli at datamarket.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>
>
> 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
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> twitter.com/datamarket
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>
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com>
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> wrote:
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> https://www.apiefrance.fr/sections/acces_thematique/reutilisation-des-informations-publiques/economic-study/view
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> "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
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> 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."
>
>
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> European Commission tweeted this with the hashtag #opendata:
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> http://twitter.com/infsoe4/status/25495868148809729
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> regards,
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>
>
> Peter
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