Brussels, 20 April 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

SharePSI is organizing a workshop, hosted by the European Commission, on Removing the Roadblocks to a Pan European Market for Public Sector Information Re-use. This is a 2 day event, taking place in Brussels on May 10 and 11.

The purpose of this workshop is to survey experiences with the re-use of public sector information in Europe and beyond, with a focus on identifying critical obstacles to pan-European interoperability and to the development of pan-European services, and steps to address these obstacles.

This workshop is part of the work on the Digital Agenda implementation's 'Big Idea' of 'Beyond raw data: public sector information, done well' and the results of this workshop will be presented at the Digital Agenda Assembly, to be held in June, for which registration has recently opened.

The deadline for submitting proposals for the workshop has now passed, and 31 proposals have been received (with 2 more forthcoming).

All 31 proposals have been published, and are currently under review, with submitters being notified presumably at the end of this week, and the final workshop program announced by April 30th.

Registration for the workshop should also be opened soon.