Brussels, 30/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 30 August, the Commission decided to call upon interested parties to help in drawing up guidance and practical advice for boosting the re-use of weather data, traffic data, publicly funded research data, statistics, digitised books, and other types of public sector information (PSI). Interested parties will have until 22 November to take part in this consultation exercise and thus to contribute to effective implementation of the newly revised PSI directive, which aims to ensure public authorities release more information at little or no cost to users.
On this occasion the European commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, said: “The open data revolution is all about individuals and entrepreneurs and that includes giving them a role in policy design”. She went on to explain: “We were successful in finalising a new directive for public sector information. Now we need to implement it in a way that creates a single market for these data, so that companies can build pan-European apps and other innovations. To get Europe-wide value from this data we need the rules to be applied in a clear, common way”. (OL/transl.jl)