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PSI Scoreboard now features all member states

Posted on: 13-03-2012

UK 2nd, Austria 4th. All EU Member state data now available in PSI Scoreboard

The PSI Scoreboard, our benchmark tool for comparing the status of PSI re-use and Open Data in all EU member states has been completed by adding the data for Austria, Czech Republic and the UK. Also you're able to download all PSI Scoreboard data in an excel file. For all the data, comparison tools and more on the PSI Scoreboard, please visit our special PSI Scoreboard pages: http://epsiplatform.eu/content/european-psi-scoreboard...

Data creates new business opportunities

Posted on: 29-02-2012

Danish EU conference on Digital Single Market.

Denmark, as the current presidency for the EU, hosted a high level conference in Copenhagen on 27 and 28 February, on the Single Digital Market.

In a press release the Danish EU presidency stresses the importance of opening up government data for re-use to citizens and companies alike.

Participants in the conference...

The European Data Forum

Posted on: 20-02-2012

From the event website: "The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

It is a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges.

Of special focus for the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving innovation and competition in many data-driven economic sectors. The range of topics...

Denmark To Join OGP

Posted on: 15-02-2012

Denmark is gearing up to join the Open Government Partnership (OGP). This multilateral cooperation of some 50 countries aims to promote openness in the public sector, through transparency, citizen participation and technology (amongst others open government data).

Denmark's participation will be based on a public consultation involving citizens, businesses and civil society...

UNESCO Global Open Access Portal launched

Posted on: 07-11-2011

Presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information.

During the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, in Paris, the Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) was launched.

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Quo Vadis ODIS?

Posted on: 17-10-2011

Danish government Open Data initiative has uncertain future.

The Danish government Open Data initiative ODIS (Offentlige Data i Spil, bringing public data into play) faces an uncertain future, as tweeted by Cathrine Lippert, the ODIS project leader.

The ODIS project started early 2009, as part of the ITST (IT and telecom agency) of the Ministry of Science, and since then is a main driving force behind open government data enthusiasm in Denmark. Using a largely bottom-up approach, but...

Danish Minister Gives PSI Re-Use Priority In 2012 EU Presidency

Posted on: 19-06-2011

Brussels, 19 June 2011,

(by Ton Zijlstra)

During the final plenary session at the Digital Agenda Assembly (see program), Charlotte Sahl-Madsen, Minister for Science Technology and Innovation of Denmark was one of the speakers. She stated that EU needs to be much more ambitious when it comes to open government data, as it will stimulate new innovative services, and is...

New Guest Blog: Data Hunters

Posted on: 15-06-2011

Copenhagen, 15 June 2011,

(by Ton Zijlstra)

Cathrine Lippert (@cathrinelippert), who heads the ODIS (the national Danish open data initiative) at the Danish public body ITST, is our new guest blogger. In her posting "Data Hunters and Data Publishing on a Shoestring" she shares the experiences she and her colleagues made in the past years bringing re-use and open data forward in Denmark.

Data Hunters...

Danish Geoservice Ready For Use

Posted on: 16-03-2011

Copenhagen, 16 March 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

The new Danish geoservice, Geoservices, is available for use. Geoservicen provides API access to geocoded addresses, postcodes, street names, municipalities, police districts, church districts, and voting districts. It also includes a service to transform government geocodes to map coordinates in for instance Google Maps and vice versa do reverse geocoding, which allows developers to use the data more easily in mashups and applications.

Geoservicen is not targeted at 'end-users', so it's not a user-friendly web...

Topic Report No. 20 Public Sector Information Reuse in Denmark

Posted on: 22-12-2010

The Danish public sector manages vast amounts of data across all aspects of society. This constitutes a valuable resource for innovation and growth that places Denmark in an excellent position to leverage PSI. However, there is lack of uniform practice in access to public data, barriers to sharing and a lack of public sector awareness of of the potentials in data. The Open Data Innovation Strategy (ODIS) was launched in 2009 to address these issues. Run by the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency (NITA), the aim is to work towards a consistent practice for uniform access to government...

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