Open government data as part of the EU’s data

strategy

European Commission, DG CONNECT

Unit G1 - Data Policy and Innovation

Yvo Volman, Head of Unit

The potential of data

European Council Conclusions (21 – 22 March 2019)

"The EU needs to go further in developing a competitive, secure,

inclusive and ethical digital economy with world-class connectivity.

Special emphasis should be placed on access to, sharing of and use of

data, on data security and on Artificial Intelligence, in an environment of

trust."

Societal benefits

Easier and better lives for individuals

Addressing societal challenges

Economic growth

Potential to double the size of data economy (6.3% of EU GDP by 2025)

Data can improve efficiency of all economic sectors

Combining government, industry and scientific data

Government data

Government data

Business data

Business data

Scientificdata

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Innovation & growth

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• High value data sets

• Encouraging the use of dynamic data and APIs

• Limit the exceptions that allow public bodies to charge for the reuse of their data more than the marginal costs of dissemination

• Strengthen the transparency requirements for public–private agreements involving public sector information, avoiding exclusive arrangements

• Enlarge the scope of the Directive to data held by some public undertakings and to research data resulting from public funding.

The new directive on ‘open data and the re-use of

public sector information’: What is new?

• Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information

• Updated in 2018 to include guidance for Member States on how to implement open access policies

• Some elements of open access policies included in the newOpen Data Directive

• Alignment with development of the European Open Science Cloud

Research data

• B2B contexts: a number of principles to create fair and open data markets

• B2G contexts for public interest purposes: a number of principles to• increase efficiency of public sector • support evidence-based policy making, and • improve public service delivery

Expert Group on Business to Government Data Sharing

Guidance on private sector data sharing inbusiness-to-business and

business-to-government contexts

Financing possibilities

• Connected Europe Facility (CEF)

• Digital Europe Programme (DEP)

• Horizon Europe

Open government data as part of the EU’s data

strategy

Thank you for your attention