[open-government] Fwd: verzoek om publicatie, bellen en factureren

[Ton Zijlstra]

For those of you interested in open geodata / remote sensing data

My colleague Marc co-wrote a report looking at the economic impact of open
satellite data, which was commissioned by the European Space Agency, and
written by both Marc and Geoff Sawyer of EARSC (remote sensing / geo info
services)

Links to the report download and a video in the article below.

best,
Ton
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From: Marc de Vries <info at devriesmarc.nl>
Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:55 AM
Subject: RE: verzoek om publicatie, bellen en factureren
To: ton.zijlstra at gmail.eu, ton at thegreenland.eu


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Europe's space EO Services industry to develop!

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Brussels, 15 April 2013

***A free and open data policy for GMES Sentinel data is not only the most
effective way to help Europe’s space EO services industry to develop, it
will also boost innovation, economic growth and create new jobs across
Europe. This is in essence the key message of the study ‘About GMES and
Data and Geese and Golden Eggs’, which was done by Geoff Sawyer
(****EARSC*<http://earsc.org/>
***) and Marc de Vries (****The Green Land*<http://thegreenland.eu/in-english/>
***) under an assignment of the European Space Agency. Quite uniquely, the
study holds evidence on the large economic benefits to be reapt from a free
and open data policy for GMES Sentinel data. The full report can be
downloaded* ***here*
<http://earsc.org/eonotes/earsc-activities-news>******* and
a truly entertaining 2 minutes*
***video*<http://vimeo.com/earsc/geeseandgoldeneggs>
*** captures the story line!*

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*The context and challenge*

The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Programme, with
consequent investment by the European Union (EU) and Member States of the
European Space Agency (ESA), holds the potential to deliver significant
economic benefits to Europe’s fledgling Earth Observation (EO) services
industry and societal benefits to all European citizens. However, differing
views of Member States as to the funding approach not only puts significant
pressures on the overall budget, it also impacts the data policy and
associated business model to be adopted: should governments seek to recover
costs of production and processing of EO data by charging re-users,
yielding direct returns, or should these costs be covered from the general
budget, seeking longer term benefits. Put differently, GMES may well be
Europe’s goose capable of laying golden eggs. But how can we ensure a
steady sustainable business model: do we take one egg (direct returns from
sales of data) or do we allow the egg to hatch, hoping more
golden-egg-laying geese will follow? This is the crucial question the
report addresses.

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***The business model paradigm is shifting*

Where in the last two decades of the previous century, public sector bodies
(PSBs) were being encouraged to partly self-finance their operations,
governments are now increasingly starting to recognise that charging for
the re-use of public sector information (PSI) through a cost-recovery model
does not necessarily lead to the best economic returns. In fact, a nucleus
of evidence is building up that making PSI available at zero or marginal
cost can generate significant benefits, enabling innovation, new business
and job creation in the private sector, and increased efficiency in the
public sector.

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***The need for sector-specific evidence*

Interestingly, this evidence is being generated in more ‘traditional PSI
domains’ such as the meteorological and hydrographical sectors and the
geographical domain, as well as in the fields of business registers, and
statistical and legal information. However, despite its widely recognized
potentially high returns, no such research has been carried out so far
within the GMES sector. Obviously, facing the policy challenges and the
crossroad concerning the data re-use funding model, such evidence would be
of great value to policy makers and stakeholders, allowing them to take
appropriate measures.

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***The value delivered for the GMES domain*

Accordingly, this study addresses this need. It describes the dilemmas
faced and provides a theoretical economic analysis as well as a
comprehensive overview of quantitative empirical research on the economic
effects of re-use charging policies for PSI. Subsequently, it transposes
those findings into the GMES domain, assessing the impacts it may have and
establishing an objective framework of reference for fact-based decision
making.

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***The authors*

The work on this study has been carried out by Geoff Sawyer and Marc de
Vries. Geoff has a strong background in space technology (engineering) and
is the Secretary General of EARSC with significant experience in the
exploitation of EO geo-information services and influencing policies. Marc
has a background in law and economics, and has been working in the field of
re-use of PSI for over 15 years, for governments across Europe and with
various European

institutions.

***For more information, please contact Geoff Sawyer (****
geoff.sawyer at earsc.org* <geoff.sawyer at earsc.org>***) or Marc de Vries (****
marc at thegreenland.eu* <marc at thegreenland.eu>***)*****

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