[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission's PSI Guidelines

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Hey again,

Here's the promised Deloitte presentation on the value of data and
especially the GDP gains from releasing public sector information.

Dimi


2014-07-02 16:30 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>:

> Dear list,
>
> I am just returning from a PSI roundtable and workshop
> <http://psialliance.info/documents/PSIAllianceAgenda2Jul2014DRAFT.pdf>
> here in Brussels where Szymon Lewandowski from DG CONNECT
> <http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/en/content/open-data-policy-and-public-sector-information>
> talked about the guidelines for the re-use of public sector information to
> be released by the European Commission.
>
>
> *Background*
> Back in November 2013, me and Mathias from WMDE attended (see second
> article
> <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-December/129015.html>)
> a public hearing on the matter of implementing the revised Public Sector
> Information Directive to include re-use permissions. It was organised by DG
> CONNECT in Luxembourg, as many public sector bodies had signalled having a
> hard time understanding what needs to be done. Together with LAPSI
> <http://www.lapsi-project.eu/> and CreativeCommons we were pushing the
> following points:
>
>    - No NC restrictions (distributing our brochure
>    <http://www.wikimedia.de/images/1/15/CC-NC_Leitfaden_2013_engl.pdf>)
>    - Free of charge access
>    - Using standard licenses that are really free (strongly proposing
>    cc-0 and cc-by)
>    - We raised the issue of copyfraud
>
>
> *Commission implementation guidelines*
>
> While the document is not published yet, Szymon Lewandowski from the
> Commission presented the content that will be released in two weeks time.
> The Commission is recommending:
>
>    - Not licensing material that is already in the public domain
>    - Using cc-0 as a default license
>    - Using cc-by where a public sector body doesn't feel comfortable with
>    cc-0
>    - If a body really needs to create an own license, it should make sure
>    its compatible
>    - Marginal charges are allowed can include return on investment not
>    highter than 5% of fixed interest rate
>    - However: online access and distrubution should be free of charge
>
> According to Mr. Lewandowski they didn't include a statement on NC
> clauses, because they believed that this will only make people think about
> it, increasing the chances of using such restrictions.
>
>
> *Actual publishing of the guidelines *
> The actual guidelines will be released July 17th and will be called a
> "notice" (for some strange reason I didn't understand). Apparently they're
> being translated now.
>
>
> *Relevance*
> While these are non-binding, they still represent the official opinion of
> the European Commission or at least DG CONNECT. It clearly states that
> public information and content should be free and re-usable without
> restriction, making it a useful argument in debates with other DGs and
> third-parties.
>
> The group also talked about how important it is to measure GDP impact of
> released data and content in order to win arguments in the future. In this
> field, Deloitte UK is already making efforts in putting a number on the
> money gained for the economy by releasing datasets. I shall share their
> analysis as soon as it is available to me (they promised to share it).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dimi
>
>
>
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