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Topic Report: Re-use of Public Procurement Data

Posted on: 25-09-2012

Procurements by the public sector represent an enormous part of GDP in the European Union. According to a 2010 study conducted on behalf of the European Commission around 17,30% of the EU GDP, or about 2,16 trillion EUR, is spent on public procurements.

Open availability of procurement data represents a significant opportunity for all stakeholders: it facilitates access to procurement markets for aspiring bidding companies, the increased competition provides better value for money for governments in times of austerity, and the transparency on public spending improves democratic...

Slovenian Information Officer further defines the scope of re-use

Posted on: 05-09-2012

Thesaurus terms: re-use, use between public sector bodies

Court: Slovenian Information Commissioner

Jurisdiction: Slovenia

Case identifier: 021-11/2008

Date : 4 February 2009

Use of PSI by a public sector company is not regarded as re-use, but as an interchange of PSI between public sector bodies if the company uses the PSI in the framework of its public task activities.

A Slovenian public company called Snaga (Snaga) requested the Slovenian Surveying and Mapping Authority (SMA), a public sector body, for specific data from its register...

New legal case: Slovenian Information Commissioner Further Defines Commercial Re-use

Posted on: 05-09-2012

Use of PSI by a public sector company is not regarded as re-use, but as an interchange of PSI between public sector bodies if the company uses the PSI in the framework of its public task activities. This is the outcome of a decision of the Slovenian Information Commissioner.

See the full case description in our legal section.

Innovation Contests for Open Data Re-use

Posted on: 20-08-2012

By now we've seen many open data app contests, in many forms, all around world. In a way, this continuous sprawl is a success in itself. However, there are certain common themes emerging. There is a demand and a need to learn from each other and to design better and more sustainable models for boosting the innovation around open data.

This topic report will bring together insights from contest organisers from various countries. The insights are based on a meeting of over twenty-fve app contest organisers in Helsinki during the Open Knowledge Festival in September 2012 and on a...

Slovenian Information Commissioner demarcates commercial and non-commercial re-use purposes

Posted on: 06-08-2012

Thesaurus terms: PSI, re-use, commercial purpose, charges

Court: Slovenian Information Commissioner

Jurisdiction: Slovenia

Case identifier: 090-162/2009/6

Date : 22 December 2009

The Slovenian Information Officer decided that a re-user offering PSI for free on its website where third parties can rent advertising space is not a form of commercial re-use and that, accordingly, under Slovenian law, the public sector body can not charge for the re-use of that PSI.

Symbiont ltd., a commercial re-user requested public sector information from...

New legal case: Slovenian Information Commissioner on Commercial Re-use

Posted on: 06-08-2012

See the full case description in our legal section.

The Law Factory / La Fabrique de la Loi

Posted on: 06-07-2012

Join the live-stream from the international conference on Open Legislative Data called "The Law Factory".

The international conference on Open Legislative Data called "The Law Factory / La Fabrique de la Loi" is organized by Sciences Po, CEE, Regards Citoyens and Médialab, brought together about 100 experts and practitioners from civil society and academia today in Paris. The hashtag is #OLDP

In the opening plenary Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po, CEE) and Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou from ...

The Digital Agenda Assembly 2012

Posted on: 24-06-2012

The Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 #da12 took place on 21-22 June aligned with related events organized in the same week in Brussels.

Among these where the SEMIC Interoperability Conference and the W3C/Crossover Project Workshop on Uses of Open Data.

The first Day of the Digital Agenda Assembly was organized as 8 parallel workshops, one of them focussing on Data, hashtag...

European Data Forum 2012

Posted on: 07-06-2012

The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark has provided a sizzling debate on technologies and policies on data.

It has been a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy. 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 topics discussed at the European Data Forum range from novel data-driven business models (e.g....

Data at the Digital Agenda Assembly

Posted on: 07-06-2012

Data will be one of the thematic working groups at the Digital Agenda Assembly.

The Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 ("DAA12"), will take place on 21-22 June in Brussels. You are invited to participate in one or more of the thematic groups. Among other there is thematic group on "Data".