The Report on the Madrid PSI 2010 Meeting summarises themes emerging during discussions and the presentations by roundtable panel speakers. The meeting attracted 180 participants from 12 European countries focused on the meeting programme theme: Realising the Value of Public Sector Information.

• : Madrid PSI 2010 Meeting (version: 14 September 2010) (pdf file)
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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

• The Madrid PSI 2010 Meeting was a collaborative initiative by Proyecto Aporta and the European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform).
• 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.
• The European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform), funded under the European Commission’s eContentplus programme, is operational from March 2009 to February 2011.
• Full documentation of the meeting is published on both the Project Aporta and ePSIplatform web portals.