Madrid: 11 May 2010

Spain’s PSI Information Service, Proyecto Aporta, has a blog topic on their involvement in a European IGF5 Workshop proposal: Public sector information online: democratic, social and economic potentials.

Organisations collaborating on the proposal include:

The Spanish Aporta project The European Public Sector Information Platform The Australian auPSI information platform The KM Africa Information platform The Information Society Development Committee under the Government of the Republic if the Lithuania

The workshop proposal in open to all public sector information stakeholders worldwide with an interest in supporting, participating and joining this workshop – contact ePSIplatform or comment on this news item below.

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The text of the Aporta blog entitled: ‘Reutilización de la información del sector público en la agenda del Foro para la Gobernanza de Internet’ (Re-use of Public Sector Information on the Internet Governance Forum Agenda) states (approximate English Translation below) (Spanish text online):

“The IGF (Internet Governance Forum) has published this week the complete list of workshop proposals submitted for the 5th meeting of this Forum to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania from the 14th to 17th September this year.

The overall theme of the 2010 IGF meeting is "Building the future together"; a theme that reflects the nature of the IGF’s open and inclusive and democratic and transparent approach it brings to the discussions on public policy issues concerning the Internet.

The Vilnius meeting aims to help articulate a vision of how to use the Internet for the benefit of all humanity and how to address risks and challenges of the future under multiple approaches and under the principles of sustainability, efficiency and co-operation, linked to the Millennium United Nations.

The meeting will revolve around the following themes:

• Managing critical Internet resources
• Security, openness, access and privacy
• Accessibility and diversity
• Internet Governance for Development
• Balance the Government's Internet and roadmap
• Emerging Issues: cloud computing

Among the issues concerning the openness of the Internet, Project Aporta in partnership with ePSIplatform , AUPS Australian platform, KM Africa and the Committee for the Development of Information Society of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, submitted a proposal for a workshop entitled "Public Sector Information Online: its democratic potential, social and economic development".

This workshop, which is configured as a round table discussion will address the significant progress and remaining challenges for re-use of public information from an international comparative perspective, identifying best practices, sharing information and exchanging views on the way forward.

Some of the milestones that will surely be addressed in these discussions will be, for example, the Declaration of La Granja, signed recently by the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency, the recently adopted Declaration of Granada, laying the foundations of the new European Digital Agenda, as well as initiatives such as public data catalogs have been developing in different parts of the globe, among which is the Project Aporta Catalog of Public Information which went online this past March.

Thus, Project Aporta and the ePSIplatform are placing policies that promote the re-use of public Sector information on the main event of the global agenda on Internet governance.

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