GFII Announces Seminar Series: Digital Economy – Sharing New Value

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Posted by Mary Gianoli on 22 Apr 2010

Paris: 22 April 2010

The Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information (GFII) (French Association of Electronic Information Industry) has announced a new seminar series on the ‘Digital Economy and New Value’.

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First Meeting

Theme: The opening of public information: a challenge for the development of the digital economy)

Meeting Date: 20 May 2010

Location: Paris

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The GFII announcement states (approximate English translation) (French text online):

“For many years, GFII has been promoting the re-use of public sector information. This information is a pool to create unique products or value-added services and develop new economic activities. The use of material from government presents real challenges for the development of the digital economy and the knowledge economy.

A new global dynamic is running around Open Data movements, projects and data.gov type applications and Apps for Democracy. At a time when many initiatives are developing in different countries under different models, GFII wishes to deepen the economic aspect of this subject. After a series of sectoral workshops (dedicated to information on companies, patent information ...), GFII begins from this day, a new series of seminars on the theme: "Digital Economy: the new division value.

Economists, experts and practitioners try to answer the following questions:

What is the real potential of the reuse of public information?
What is the best economic model for the provision of such data? What pricing method set up? Should we define rules based on 'creators, the data or applications?
Does the availability of data fit into the missions of the state?
What are the means of state departments, public organisations or communities to meet the expectations of economic actors and citizens?

Provisional Agenda

Opening Seminar, Remi Bilbault, President GFII
Examples of successful re-use of public data, Berthault Denis, Vice President GFII, LexisNexis, Co-Chair of the Working Group Inter-Associations Public Data
The calendar "digital" European Commission: public information and open data, Javier Hernandez-Ros, Head of Unit "Information Access", DG Information and Media of the European Commission
The economy of public data, Olivier Bomsel, Engineer of Mines and Professor of Economics, author of The intangible economy, industries and markets experience
The potential reuse of public data for industrial innovation, Cap Digital
The potential reuse of public data for social innovation, Nepote Charles, Director of the "active Identities" FING
Reuse of Digital Heritage, a major challenge for the dissemination of culture, Bruno Ory-Lavollée, Advisor master to the Court of Auditors, Co-chair of a working group of the Ministry of Culture on the reuse of digital heritage
The economics of reuse: the recommendations of the APIE, Danielle Bourlanges, Deputy Director General, APIE
The reuse of geographic data: the concept of public data reference, Dominique Caillaud, MP, Vendee, President of the AFIGEO
An initiative to promote innovation: the license simplified "public information freely reusable", Thomas Saint-Aubin, Head of Office of the editorial strategy, Ministry of Justice
The contributions of the tool "partnership agreement" to a better dissemination of public information, Robert Stakowski, Director in charge of technology projects, MAPPP / Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment
Presentation of data.gov.uk: first feedbacks are created from the platform apps, Speaker tbc
An example of new Waste: Public Data Explorer Labs, Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist for EMEA, Google
Conclusion, Master Jean Martin, Lawyer

Practical Information

Participation fee (including conference, coffee breaks and lunch) Member GFII, AFIGEO, FING, GESTE, SPDG: 109 euros or 130.36 euros VAT inclusive Non-members: 159 euros or 190.16 euros VAT inclusiveRegister for the seminar: Just send us an email at gfii@wanadoo.fr with your name, company, position and address before May 17, stating whether you are a partner organization. A confirmation will be sent by email and an invoice will be sent later

Economic working groups launched!