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This presentation discusses the European Commission's policies on open data, the creation of a data value chain friendly environment, and the objectives of building a multilingual data infrastructure and supporting research and innovation.
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Commission's strategy towards GI and Open Data Szymon LewandowskiEuropean CommissionDG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Geospatial World Forum Rotterdam, 15 May 2013
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
"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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)
EU Open Data portal open-data.europa.eu
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
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
Thank you for your attention • Open Data (PSI) • EU Open Data Portals • E-mail: CNECT-G3@ec.europa.eu @EC_opendata