Commission's strategy towards GI and Open Data

Szymon LewandowskiEuropean Commission

DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Geospatial World ForumRotterdam, 15 May 2013

European policies on open data: main objectives

• Creation of "data value chain friendly" policy environment (including Open Data Strategy)

• Building of Multilingual (Open) Data infrastructure

• Supporting Research and innovation

"Data Value" vision

Create social and economic added value based on the intelligent use, management and re-use of data sources in Europe.

This will lead to:•- increased business intelligence and efficiency of private and public sectors •- world class applications•- new business opportunities involving SMEs•- job creation in the data industry

Geographic informationPart of a broader data landscape

• ‘Data, the lifeblood of the knowledge economy’• ‘London's 200 traffic surveillance cameras send

64 trillion bits a day to the data command center’• ‘Every day, people send 10 billion text messages' • ‘In 2020 the size of the Internet will be 44 times

the size of the 2009 Internet. Storage capacity will grow by a factor of 30’

Geographic Information: a product an enabler

Open data strategy

- Communication on Open Data - A revision of the Decision governing the re-use of

Commission's own information- Modification of the Directive on the re-use of public

sector information (PSI Directive)- Open data-portals

- Commission/EU institutions and agencies portal- pan-European portal

Commission's reuse decision

• Scope:Any content of which the Commission is the owner

• Conditions for re-use: Reuse is allowed free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without the need for an individual application, with no discriminating conditions between reusers.

Revision of the PSI Directivemain changes:

• Creation of a genuine right to re-use public data: all public data not specifically excluded from re-use are to be re-usable

• Charging rules are amended: • Pricing based on marginal costs• In exceptional cases: possibility to recover costs and claim a reasonable return on

investment if duly justified

• Cultural institutions brought within the scope

• More transparency with regard to charges and conditions applied by public sector bodies

Revision of the PSI Directivecurrent status

• Legislative process started in December 2011

• EU co-legislators agreed on the final text in April

• Formal adoption by EP and Council in June 2013

• Deadline for transposition – last quarter of 2015

The Open Data portals

The European data portals

• European Commission data portal

beta version since end 2012

• Pan-European open data portal

Multilingual access point to data from across the EU

• Preliminary version (publicdata.eu , LOD2 project)• Final version to be funded through the CEF programme

(Connecting Europe Facility)

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publicdata.eu

EU Open Data portal

Support through EU funding

• Past: Range of GI projects financed under eContentplus, CIP and in FP7

• Current: Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) – call closed on 14 May 2013

• Future: Horizon 2020, integration of research and innovation

Conclusions

• Work ongoing towards a European data value chain strategy

• Open data: towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe

• 'Data' will have an important place in future programmes and policy

• Spatial Data constitute a fundamental component

Thank you for your attention

• Open Data (PSI)

• EU Open Data Portals

• E-mail: CNECT-G3@ec.europa.eu

@EC_opendata