Announcement: London and Madrid: 7 April 2010

Proyecto Aporta and the ePSIplatform are collaborating to host a meeting for the European PSI Community. We are pleased to issue an open invitation for you to participate as a roundtable panel member or a participant.

Meeting Date and Location: 8th June 2010, Madrid

More about the Meeting

• Spanish text about the meeting online: Project Aporta including provisional agenda and Project Aporta Blog post on the meeting
• There is no registration fee. Advance registration is required. We encourage you to register early to ensure a place at the meeting.
• Online Registration is on this link on the Aporta Project site in Spanish or English
• ePSIplatform meeting information online including provisional agenda and practical information
• Participation in the meeting is free on a first come basis.
• Twitter Hash Tag: #PSI_Value

The European ‘Open Data Community’ is moving forward quickly and experiencing much success in opening up and re-using government data. This meeting is a forum bringing together those focused on understanding and learning about the value of public sector information from the European policy to the local level and across sectors. Participants will include leading European experts and representatives from agencies, institutions, companies and civil society – all involved in re-using public sector information.

• During the meeting, the focus will be on learning more about the value of PSI (Public Sector Information) when it is opened up for re-use. It is a one day forum to stimulate dialogue, discussion and debate starting at the European policy level moving on to innovative business models and then measuring the economic value of PSI re-use and examining the social value of PSI for citizens.
• On the topic of measuring economic value, there will be feedback on the work of the European Commission’s PSI Economic Indicators Working Group. Interested participants will have the opportunity to become involved in online processes to collect data to measure PSI re-use indicators across value chains on the demand and supply sides.

Meeting Contacts

• For more information or any questions or to indicate your interest in participating in one of the panels, please contact:
• Rafael Pérez Galindo, Project Aporta, Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Spain (MITYC) email
• Mary Gianoli, European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform) email

Notes:

This Madrid meeting follows on from several highly successful PSI meetings hosted by Proyecto Aporta, including the 9th June 2009 meeting with speakers and 200 participants from throughout Europe. During this meeting, Proyecto Aporta launched the Spanish Guía Aporta sobre Reutilización de la información del sector público (Spanish Aporta Guide on Re-using Public Sector Information) available in pdf and video formats) described by the ePSIplatform as an excellent reference source document for the public sector). Proyecto Aporta makes this resource available to be translated or adapted and used by other European countries.

This is the second of four meetings the ePSIplatform is hosting for the PSI community which will focus on issues, strategies, actions and information sharing to stimulate PSI re-use. The first ePSIplatform Meeting was held in Stockholm, 24 November 2009 on the theme: Stimulating PSI Re-use: European Progress (access the Meeting Report).