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Geospatial World Forum Rotterdam, 15 May 2013

Commission's strategy towards GI and Open Data Szymon Lewandowski European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Geospatial World Forum Rotterdam, 15 May 2013. European policies on open data: main objectives.

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Geospatial World Forum Rotterdam, 15 May 2013

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  1. Commission's strategy towards GI and Open Data Szymon LewandowskiEuropean CommissionDG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Geospatial World Forum Rotterdam, 15 May 2013

  2. European policies on open data: main objectives • Creation of "data value chain friendly" policy environment (including Open Data Strategy) • Building of Multilingual (Open) Data infrastructure • Supporting Research and innovation

  3. "Data Value" vision Create social and economicadded value based on the intelligent use, management and re-useof data sources in Europe. This will lead to: - increased business intelligence and efficiency of private and public sectors - world class applications - new business opportunities involving SMEs - job creation in the data industry

  4. Geographic informationPart of a broader data landscape • ‘Data, the lifeblood of the knowledge economy’ • ‘London's 200 traffic surveillance cameras send 64 trillion bits a day to the data command center’ • ‘Every day, people send 10 billion text messages' • ‘In 2020 the size of the Internet will be 44 times the size of the 2009 Internet. Storage capacity will grow by a factor of 30’ Geographic Information: a product an enabler

  5. Open data strategy • Communication on Open Data • A revision of the Decision governing the re-use of Commission's own information • Modification of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) • Open data-portals • Commission/EU institutions and agencies portal • pan-European portal

  6. Commission's reuse decision • Scope:Any content of which the Commission is the owner • Conditions for re-use: Reuse is allowed free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without the need for an individual application, with no discriminating conditions between reusers.

  7. Revision of the PSI Directivemain changes: • Creation of a genuine right to re-use public data: all public data not specifically excluded from re-use are to be re-usable • Charging rules are amended: • Pricing based on marginal costs • In exceptional cases: possibility to recover costs and claim a reasonable return on investment if duly justified • Cultural institutions brought within the scope • More transparency with regard to charges and conditions applied by public sector bodies

  8. Revision of the PSI Directivecurrent status • Legislative process started in December 2011 • EU co-legislators agreed on the final text in April • Formal adoption by EP and Council in June 2013 • Deadline for transposition – last quarter of 2015

  9. The Open Data portals

  10. The European data portals • European Commission data portalbeta version since end 2012 • Pan-European open data portalMultilingual access point to data from across the EU • Preliminary version (publicdata.eu , LOD2 project) • Final version to be funded through the CEF programme (Connecting Europe Facility)

  11. publicdata.eu

  12. EU Open Data portal open-data.europa.eu

  13. Support through EU funding • Past: Range of GI projects financed under eContentplus, CIP and in FP7 • Current: Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) – call closed on 14 May 2013 • Future: Horizon 2020, integration of research and innovation

  14. Conclusions • Work ongoing towards a European data value chain strategy • Open data: towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe • 'Data' will have an important place in future programmes and policy • Spatial Data constitute a fundamental component

  15. Thank you for your attention • Open Data (PSI) • EU Open Data Portals • E-mail: CNECT-G3@ec.europa.eu @EC_opendata

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