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

Sat Jan 15 16:21:35 UTC 2011

Hi

On 13.01.2011, at 14:54, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> 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?

+ 1 - I would also like to help on this, so as a first step I created a pad to collect and edit bibliography information around OGD

http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/bibliography

I agree with Jonathan that it would be good to have a joint session to go through this lists together.

Regards
Daniel

> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Katleen Janssen
> <Katleen.Janssen at law.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you find somewhere to set it up, I have hundreds of documents that I can
>> poor into a bibliography J.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> katleen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/13/2011 12:24 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Federico: might you be up for putting this together / maintaining this
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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