[euopendata] Request for information: recent PSI/open gov data developments in your country

Thu Jan 20 10:43:53 UTC 2011

Hi,

Progress in policy:
In Finland we have parliament elections in April (17.4). The current 
government have a mention in their agenda about PSI: "/The Government 
will give decisions which provide for the opening and availability of 
data in the possession of the public sector without compromising data 
security."/
http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/reference-to-open-data-in-the-government-agenda-in-finland/

The decision have been drafted in a working group led by the ministry of 
transportation and communications. I gave some consultancy in the 
drafting process and now the decistion is waiting to get approved before 
this government term ends. The content of the decision lines the policy 
work related to PSI for the future, unfortunately the pricing issue is 
still very hard and the decision draft doen't say much about it. Problem 
is that the ministry of transp. end comm. doesn't have the power to 
mandate the pricing issues, since that is under the moinistry of 
finance. In other aspects the drafted decision is very promising, 
hopefully there won't be any delays and the decition can be approved 
before the elections.

Other progress:
Helsinki Region Infoshare -project is doing good work. They are building 
regional data catalog (based on CKAN) and publishing data sets (mostly 
statistics), they are building real show case applications of linked 
data and convincing the local authorities to open more data.

http://www.hri.fi/ <http://www.hri.fi/en> (some info in english as well)

-Antti P.

On 19.1.2011 14:04, Ton Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At the end of next week the European Commission's PSI Group (see 
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/facilitating_reuse/psigroup/index_en.htm 
> ) will be meeting in Luxembourg. As you can see in the programme (see 
> link to pdf in the news section in the bottom half of the page 
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm) I 
> have been asked to give a 20min overview of 'recent developments' in 
> EU Member States regarding PSI re-use / open gov data. This is a bit 
> of a change from the first draft of the agenda, and the follow-up 
> e-mail asks specifically for 'facts' about the current status.
>
> So here's my question to you:
> What are, in your opinion, for your country the most interesting 
> developments regarding PSI/open data. Both in actual progress made, as 
> well as e.g. shifting attitudeds within your government institutions etc.
>
> I will be grateful for your input, and will use as much as possible of 
> it in my presentation to the EC PSI Group next week.
>
> best,
>
> Ton
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>
> ton at tonzijlstra.eu <mailto:ton at tonzijlstra.eu>
> +31-6-34489360
>
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