[euopendata] Dutch Interior Minister proposes FOIA amendments

[Jonathan Gray]

Fantastic news!

Ton: I also have been meaning to ask - are there any Dutch civil
servants that we could ask to write a brief overview of open data in
the Netherlands for OKF blog, and to invite to the euopendata list,
future events, etc?

J.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> The Dutch minister for the interior recently made a speech on the 'day for
> freedom of the press' in which he suggested to limit the FOIA as it was a
> lot of work for the civil servants involved. That was met with a lot of
> protest of course.
> Meanwhile the minister has send a letter to parliament stating the actual
> changes he wants to make to the FOIA.
> While those protest causing elements are indeed also in the letter (though
> in a less worrying way than one might have feared) there is also in terms of
> open data a lot to be liked:
> no copyright or database right claims by any public service body
> maximum charge for getting material is incremental cost of distribution,
> with no charging at all being also fine. This holds for all PSBs, including
> the ones currently charging for their data.
> Data catalogue explicitly mentioned as instrument in stimulating publication
> and data re-use.
> PSBs encouraged to much more pro-actively publish their material
> Level of knowledge on FOIA and re-use to be raised with all PSBs.
> more
> here http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/dutch_letter_to_parliament_on_foia
> best,
> Ton
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