London and Madrid: 14 September 2010

The report on the Madrid PSI 2010 meeting jointly hosted by Project Aporta and the European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform) is online. The Report summarises themes emerging during discussions, presentations by roundtable panel speakers and includes short reports from 2 meeting participants (Greece and Lithuania).

• : Madrid PSI 2010 Meeting (version: 14 September 2010) (pdf file)
• Access Videos: Madrid PSI 2010 Meeting – excerpts from panel discussions and interview with panel speakers (Source Codes provided by Project Aporta for re-publishing these audio visual resources)
• Full documentation of the meeting is published on both the Project Aporta and ePSIplatform web portals.

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The meeting held on the 9th June 2010 in Madrid attracted 180 participants from 12 European countries. Discussions focused on the theme of Realising the Value of Public Sector Information and was organised around four round table panels.

Participants brought to the meeting an entrepreneurial spirit combined with innovation know how, and shared ideas, experience and problems related to animating the re-use of government information for the benefit of the economy and citizens.

The discussions were candid, supportive and lively both in the meeting room and in online social networks. During the meeting, there were 650 tweets in just six hours on the Twitter communication channel - about 70 different users using the official hash tag label #PSI_VALUE. The meeting hash tag #PSI_Value was trending topic on Twitter in Spain.

Roundtable Panels

• Opening Ceremony: Mr. Fernando de Pablo Martín, General Director for the Promotion of eGovernment, Ministry of the Presidency, Spain
• Roundtable One: European Strategies and Good Practices
• Roundtable Two: Turning PSI re-use in new business models and innovative services
• Roundtable Three: Measuring the economic potential of PSI re-use
• Roundtable Four: Social Value of PSI
• Closing Ceremony: Mr. Sebastián Muriel Herrero, General Director, Red.es, Spain

19 speaker presentations by the European Commission, policy makers, companies re-using PSI, trade associations representing re-users, civil society organisations focused open government data and concepts and web developers.

Meeting participants were from throughout the European open data community and included those with considerable experience and those just starting out with fresh ideas and perspectives.

• Policy makers
• Open data business entrepreneurs and innovators
• Researchers, academics and economists
• PSI Holders: the public sector from all levels of government
• PSI Re-users: Citizens, non profit organisations and the business community
• Digital Activists working with the leading edge technologies to open up PSI and make re-use possible
• Open Data Activists working to promote open data initiatives

NOTES

• Proyecto Aporta’s provision of the meeting venue, staffing resources and financial contribution to the meeting facilitated this meeting and are gratefully acknowledged.
• Proyecto Aporta, Spanish Public Sector Information Re-use service, is an initiative of the Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (MITYC) and the Ministerio de la Presidencia (MPR), Spain
• Proyecto Aporta’s involvement included support from the Spanish Government including the Ministerio de la Presidencia and the Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio.

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