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Sun Mar 31 09:34:23 UTC 2013

or not)  why administrations don't "do" open data

- there is no clear demand / only a few people are occasionally interested =
in it
- people can just ask us and we'll just send the data, it works just fine
- we want to know who is using the data for what purposes
- it's a Marketing thing (IT) <=3D> it's an IT thing (Marketing)
- we already send our data to EuroStat and/or INSPIRE and/or ... so why yet=
 another platform/project/whatever
- we cannot guarantee that this dataset will be updated regularly / continu=
e to be available
- the data may not be correct, so who's responsible when something goes wro=
ng ?
- we sell this data to companies, because our department needs to  (partial=
ly) fund itself
- we actually don't own the data ourselves (collected in a public-private c=
ooperation, copyright / legal)
- no resources (time and/or budget and/or staff)
- it's "sensitive" data (e.g. deaths at hospitals), and people may draw the=
 wrong conclusions / not be able to interpret them correctly
- we did a hack-a-thon, which was nice, but everyone went home and nothing =
else happened with the datasets
- nice, but it's not on top of the (political) agenda and we have to also d=
o important project X, Y, Z first
- business case: it will cost _our department_  _now_, and _may_ lead to an=
 unknown amount of cost savings for someone else
- the data is protected by a special law for privacy / business / security =
reasons


Best regards

Bart Hanssens
Federal Public Service ICT Belgium