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Fundamental rights to education in public sector information re-use – Case Study Czech Republic

Fundamental rights to education in public sector information re-use – Case Study Czech Republic. Aleš Pekárek. EPMA – European Projects & Management Agency Czech PSI Watch Initiative Institute of Information Science of Charles University. BACKGROUND – Czech Republic.

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Fundamental rights to education in public sector information re-use – Case Study Czech Republic

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  1. Fundamental rights to education in public sector information re-use – Case Study Czech Republic Aleš Pekárek EPMA – European Projects & Management Agency Czech PSI Watch Initiative Institute of Information Science of Charles University

  2. BACKGROUND – Czech Republic • Stakeholders on Public Sector Information • Public authorities – creators and/or users • Enterprises – creators of added valueand providers of information services • Enterprises – users (generally all industries) • Non profit sector – creators and/or users • Citizens – users • Each of them follows own interest • public services • business • non profit activities etc. • Situation in re-use of PSI • ACCES to PSI – quite favourable state • RE-USE of PSI – more issues, necessityto cultivate environment, conditions and general attitude Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  3. BACKGROUND - Legal Framework • Freedom of Information Act (FOI Act) • The Directive 2003/98/EC was transposed into existing act – Free Access to Information Act No. 106/1999 Coll. • FOI legislation governs mainly ACCESS to information but not RE-USE • Practice processes of PSI Holders has not changed considerably • They publish PSI mostly on web pages • They do not care for re-users needs • Distribution services lag behind single shot access • Restrictions and exceptions are occurred Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  4. Public Sector Culture • Factors influencing culture in Public Sector: • Internal • Civil servant him/herself, his/her personality and opinion • Civil servant's boss opinion (all bosses in the organizational hierarchy) • Internal lawyer's education and attitude to information society • External • Traditions of the institution (open versus secretive) • (Market) Value of information produced • Number of „friendly“ companies being able to generate money from PSI • Costs needed for investment in technologies, personnel etc. Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  5. Non-public sector Initiatives • Czech PSI Watch Initiative • Voluntary initiative of public, commercial and non-profit entities (EPMA is a founder) • Based (by 3 organizations) in 2005 with aim to • watch process of „PSI Re-use Directive“ transposition into Czech legalrules • encourage a discussion between Public Data Holders and re-users (commercial andnon commercial) • organize seminars for better understanding of „PSI Re-useDirective“and European experience • promote knowledge from official government decisionsand frominternational project experience • After PSI Re-use Directive transposition the aim is to • keep stakeholders in touch • continue dialogue between PDH and re-users community • concentrate opinions, comments and issues of PSI re-useand feedback • • Web page www.czechpsi.infowas launched in Summer 2007 Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  6. OK, but… does anybody know about? • Almost no educational occassions yet • Something at MASARYK UNIVERSITY, Brno (colleague Polčák) • A lot of confusing information and metadata on PSI • Possible abuse from the governmental & experts side • FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO HAVE A PROPER EDUCATION POSSIBILITY TO KNOW THE TRUE Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  7. RESEARCH THROUGH EDUCATION • PSI is not common research topic in CR • Lack of awareness among „old school teachers“ • Affilation unclear (some in Brno – lawyers, economists, geographers) • – no holistic approach Information science, PhD thesis (enforced), PSI seminar Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  8. FIRST SEMINAR 2007/08 • first PSI university seminar in CR ever – summer semester, Charles University, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Institute of Information Science • 15 students subscribed • Main task – to get complete catalogue of all electronic data from selected public institution • FOIA request Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  9. FOIA Request „I request complete thematically structured catalogue of all electronic data (databases, parts of databases, documents - PDF, DOC, TXT, XLS, JPG, PPT, DBF etc. - all formats, audio records, video records, geographical layers..) available as per (date of request), together with terms of their OFFLINE provision (price, licences, data format, accuracy, actuality). Catalogue is requested in Microsoft Excel format).“ Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  10. PSI seminar research results • each public institution answered in different way • from „we are not in duty to provide such a catalogue“ through „I do not understand at all what you want“ to „here is the list“ or „the catalogue would cost 1000 EUR as we don’t use Data management“ • several hundred obliged public institutions – a LOT of research Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  11. PSI seminar research results • results was used as a basement for negotiation with Ministry of Interior to amend FOIA with a new article: • „Each institution is obliged to have a catalogue of all electronic data with relevant metadata and conditions of re-use“ • Model:Czech Statistical Office Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  12. PSI seminar evaluation • Students appreciate seminar • A big suprise how much PSI exist • Evaluated as „a great personal asset“ • Demand on seminar integration to the Information science study programme Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  13. NEXT STEPS • This current winter semestr – another seminar after one-year-break • The research ordered by the Czech Governmental Office  - Information Centre • They want to know, what other Information Centres of Governments exactly do Aleš Pekárek, EPMA / Charles University LAPSI First Joint WG2 & WG6 Thematic Seminar, 7-8 October 2010, Leuven

  14. Thank you for your attention pekarek@epma.cz www.epma.cz www.czechpsi.info

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