Open Data in the EU

achievements & challenges

#epsiconf, Warsaw, 22 Feb 2013

Congratulations!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdowns66/

9/09 data.gov.uk 2/13 govdata.de

106http://datacatalogs.org/group/eu-official

open licenses in various shapes & forms

PSI Re-Use

change of terms is change of perspective

Open Data Strategy

community meet-ups

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taslab/8401390107

#SOD13 Bologna 18-20 January

1000’s of prototypes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59937401@N07/5858059202/

economic impact

Dutch Meteo: 100, 35M

Finnish SME’s: 15%

Spain: 5000, 350M

<< 1 %

not costly when done right

downloads > page views

charging practices / price elasticity

Low End Marketsis where activities and growth benefit most

from increased access and lower thresholds...

UK Rail Fares Data

Danish Core Registers

PSI Directive

open-data.europa.eu

publicdata.eu

Congratulations!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdowns66/

but...

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/european-psi-scoreboard

reality <> full potential

http://www.flickr.com/photos/buhsnarf/2534278930/

regressive steps

key data missing

OGP uptake slow in EU

no norms flow from regulation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phunk/391333260/

political attention

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time till impact

We are here

We are here

it is up to us

challenges

&

pitfalls

1) OPEN data, not open DATA

networked society makes ‘open’ a necessity

2) serious issues need serious data

‘safe data’ is a seductive dead end

is this really the data we need?

healthcare

3) recognize impact when we see it

the next Google?

killer app of open data?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/8421625784/

yay! impact!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/8421625784/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/incrediblehow/5577200173/

make all pieces count

4) towards openness / privacy by design

5) open data as a policy instrument

issue

open datastakeholders

value, efficiency, impact

open data as policy instrument

“tackling societal issues with open data”

transition more than tech / legal issues(http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform/5737203950/)

6) beyond government data

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/LOD_Cloud_Diagram_as_of_September_2011.png

we’ve come a long way

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdowns66/

1) OPEN data, not open DATA

2) serious issues need serious data

3) recognize impact when we see it

4) towards openness/privacy by design

5) open data as a policy instrument

6) beyond government data

We need to go here

CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.

Slides: Ton Zijlstra, by nc

Slides: http://slideshare.net/tonzijlstraBlog: http://zylstra.org/blogContact: ton@tonzijlstra.eu @ton_zylstra