EDF2014: Marta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology: Public Sector Information (PSI) at European

Public Sector Information (PSI) at the European Commission

Márta Nagy-RothengassEuropean Commission

DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology

European Data Forum 2014Session 1: Open Data (across Europe)

Athens, Greece, 19 March 2014

OUTLINE

1. Why the "open data" matters?

2. Open data policy aspects

3. Open data infrastructure

4. Conclusion

Data has become a resource

Types: Publicly funded data (like statistics, environmental and geographical data, meteorological data, business information, legal information), institutional and private data

Data offers new opportunities: Combination of different types of data (e.g. geo, traffic and tourism; business and open)

Data activities generate externalities, positive (reuse) and negative (privacy): capture the good and avoid the bad

Competitive advantage is to offer the right data to the right people at the right time

Open (public) data: Why does it matter for Europe?

1. Untapped business and economic opportunities: data is the new gold; possible direct and indirect gains of €140bln across the EU27; Dutch geo-sector in 2008: 15.000 jobs

2. Better governance and citizen empowerment: open data increases transparency, citizen participation and administrative efficiency and accountability

3. Addressing societal challenges: data can enhance sustainability of health care systems; essential for tackling environmental challenges

4. Accelerating scientific progress: e-science essential for meeting the challenges of the 21st century in scientific discovery and learning.

Commission Communication on Open data An engine for innovation, growth and transparent governance

Fostering of (Open) Data policy

Adoption of the revised Directive on the re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI)

Adoption of the Commission decision on re-use of its own information

Implementation of PSI policy across Europe by ensuring compliance and the development of soft law instruments (guidelines on high value data, licensing and charging)

Revision of the PSI Directive

Directive 2013/37/EU was adopted on 23 June 2013

Key points of the revision, to be transposed by July 2015

• All accessible material in principle reusable must be made available;

• Charges in principle are lowered to the marginal costs of dissemination

• Rules on re-use of cultural material (material held by museums, libraries & archives that is free of third party copyright) are now included

• Machine-readable and open formats are strongly encouraged

Guidelines on implementation of the Directive (charging rules, licensing, high value datasets)

• Public consultation September-November 2013

• Public hearing, Luxembourg, 25.11.13 • Meeting of the PSI Group, 26.11.13• Internal Commission validation

process, December 2013-March 2014

• Adoption and publication as European Commission Communication: June 2014

Revision of the PSI Directive

G8 contextThe G8 Open Data Charter

"We have arrived at a tipping point, heralding a new era in which people can use open data to generate insights, ideas, and services to create a better world for all."

"12) We agree to orient our governments towards open data by default. "

EU implementation plan

G8 Open Data Charter

5 principles, all fully in line with the EC policy on OD: Open Data by Default (“all government data be published

openly by default”) Quality and Quantity (released data should be timely,

comprehensive, accurate and clear) Usable by All (OD should be available free of charge; without

bureaucratic or administrative barriers, such as registration requirements; in open formats wherever possible; as much data as possible)

Releasing Data for Improved Governance (share technical expertise and experience, be transparent on data collection, standards, and publishing processes)

Releasing Data for Innovation

EU implementationof the G8 Open Data Charter

6 commitments:

1. Publication of core datasets held at EU level (budget, elections, statistics)

2. Publication of high value datasets held at EU level 3. Publishing data on the EU open data portal 4. Promoting the application of the principles of the G8

Open Data Charter in all 28 EU Member States 5. Supporting Activities, Outreach, Consultation and

Engagement 6. Sharing experiences of open data work

European Council 24/25 October 2013

Enhancing the potential of 'Big Data and Open Data' and 'data-driven innovation';

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It spreads …

Over 30 countries with national data portals

Numerous initiatives at regional/local level

International Organizations already on board (e.g. http://open-data.europa.eu/ http://data.worldbank.org/ http://data.un.org/ )

Data portals all over the world..

RED ... local or regional governmental authoritiesGREEN ... local or regional private initiativesYELLOW ... nationwide governmental authoritiesBLUE ... nationwide private initiativesPURPLE ... transnational catalogue

Publication of Open Government Data

150+ Open data portals in Europe

+ European Commission Open Data Portal (2012)

+ Pan-European Open Data Portal (pilot in 2013)

+ European Digital Service infrastructure for Open Data (CEF, 2014-2020)

The EC Open Data Portal: Re-use of Commission's own Data

More than 6500 datasets from 40 data providers

Pan-EuropeanOpen Data portal

currently a pilot:

www.publicdata.eu*

More than 46,000 referenced datasets

from 14 countries

*LOD2 project

Towards a pan-European infrastructure for (open) data

Rationale• One single gateway to reusable information

with the aim of enabling combination of information held by various open data portals at various levels throughout the EU

• Services around open data• Dedicated service infrastructure for language

resources in order facilitate multi-lingual access to online services

EU wide Open Data Infrastructures

CEF:Access to digital resources

of European Heritage“Europeana”

Sustainable modelfor financing theEU public digital

library Europeana

2013:pilot of a pan-European Open Data Portal

2014-2020: progressive

implementation as one of the CEF

(Connecting Europe Facility)

Infrastructures(Open Data)

CEF Public Open Data: 2014 actions

initiate the deployment of a comprehensive Open Data core platform

• Make data sets accessible and downloadable through linksto data providers' resources;

• Advanced visualization capabilities, tools for data aggregation and linking, browsing and visualization, user interfaces and supportmaterial• Use agreed standards for metadata and data

• Open data creates fantastic opportunities for new business but also some threats (Information overabundance, privacy)

• The business champions of the future will be the most successful companies in coping with data flood

• Technology solutions addressing the complexity of information problems and interoperability issues are needed

• Policy implementation (PSI and G8) is required

• Towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe

• The EC is committed to support to improve European (open) data driven competitiveness

Conclusion

• More info and updates:https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/content-and-media/data

Thank you!

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