[euopendata] Reminder: LAPSI Public Conference 23-24/I/2012, Brussels - on-line registration

Fri Jan 6 10:21:05 UTC 2012

Dear All, 

Feel free to spread this message to whomever may be interested. We hope to see you all in Brussels. 

With the best wishes for the new year,
Kind Regards, 

CS

The
2nd LAPSI Public Conferencewill take place in Bruxelles, on the 23rdand 24th of January 2012.

The two-day meeting will give the opportunity to publicly present the state of the art of the LAPSI policy recommendations on Public Sector Information (PSI) re-use. The featured policies focus on some of the major legal topics involved with the re-use of PSI; in particular,intellectual property rights issues, privacy, data protection and personal data processing, competition law aspects, regulatory bodies.

The LAPSI members will discuss their policies together with external discussants and experts in the field of PSI, as well as with stakeholders and citizens who want to broaden their knowledge around the topics of PSI and Open Data.

The LAPSI 2nd Public Conference on-line registration is available at: http://lapsi-conf02.eventbrite.com/ 
The 2nd Public Conference will be held at the University Foundation, Bruxelles – Salle Félicien Cattier, rue d'egmont 11, 1000 Bruxelles. 
The meeting program is available at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/bruxellesprog 

In addition to the
    scheduled activites, the winner of the 3rdLAPSI Award on the most user-friendly design of a PSI portal in the EU will be announced during the second day of the Public Conference. 
The Award has received the support of the Italian Infocamere(http://www.infocamere.it/) and as a result, the most user-friendly design of a PSI portal will be rewarded with a prize of 1,000 Euros. 

LAPSIis the European Thematic Network studying Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information Re-use. It intends to build a network apt to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic action on all legal issues related to the access and the re-use of the PSI, namely in the digital environment. 
The LAPSI Thematic Network is aimed to produced policy recommendations in view of the impact assessment exercise linked to the revision of the Directive 2003/98/EC scheduled for 2012.More info at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/ 

Cristiana Sappa
Project Manager, LAPSI, www.lapsi-project.eu, and EVPSI, www.evpsi.org
Postdoctoral Researcher, Torino Law School
Research Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society, http://nexa.polito.it
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