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Posted by ChrisCorbin on 25 Jan 2010

Stockholm: 22 January 2010

The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has published an article that compares the progress made within the UK with respect to opening up public sector information re-use with that of Sweden and invites the Prime Minister of Sweden to dinner.

“We invite the Prime Minister to dinner The British efforts to provide access to public information is fast. Earlier in January the City of London presented their plans, in few days, the British government launched a website for public information. What happens in Sweden? The former and current government handled the issue of access to public information (Public Sector Information) so bad that the EU Commission has launched a lawsuit against Sweden. In the long term this is good - the Ministry of Finance is working with a law that will implement the European regulations in force six years ago. In the short term, there is scope for government agencies and municipalities to take their own initiatives. It is unfortunately rare. In Stockholm, the People Parity expressed a political will, but the question what is being done now that we actually have power in the city. Stockholm Chamber of Commerce said in the autumn for a number of departments and asked them to give some simple PSI mission to a number of authorities to implement in 2010. One was that the authority itself would have to propose measures to increase the reuse of its information. A mission that is neither difficult, expensive or even controversial. So far we have not received a reply from the minister Mats Odell to suggest that no authority has ever had a mission. This is not good enough anymore. Sweden has a good chance to be a leading country in the PSI. The government has hidden behind a series of investigations and legislative proposals, but did little in practice. What is waiting on the government? In the UK, discussed the Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a dinner PSI issue with Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The result can be seen on the website data.gov.uk already have more data sources than President Obama's corresponding wager data.gov. Hans Rosling is perhaps the most famous advocate for increased access to public data in Sweden. He is also the international demand for their presentations based on reuse of public data statistics. Stockholm Chamber of Commerce invites Fredrik Reinfeldt and Hans Rosling at dinner if they are to discuss the creative, powerful and practical measures to provide Swedish citizens and businesses access to the information we have already paid for.”