Re‐Use of Public Sector Information and the Spanish eGovernment Strategy 2011‐2015

Thousand of flowers blooming

Emilio Garcia GarciaTechnical Advisor

Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administrationemilio.garcia@mpt.es

Re‐Use of Public Sector Information: The Public Sector holds a gold mine of information

The Public Administration collect, produce, reproduce and disseminate documents on the performance of their duties.

Reuse is the use of these documents, by physical or legal persons with commercial or noncommercial purposes

OCTOBER 2008

Foster a culture of Reuse of 

Public Sector Information

Pave the way for the provision by the 

government of the existing public sector 

information

Promote the market of Reuse of 

Public Sector Information

Promotes a culture of reuse of

public sector information,

raising awareness of the

importance and value of public

sector information and reuse

among government, citizens

and businesses

Aporta: Towards a culture of reusability

More than 800 people have participated directly in the organizedtraining sessions. The document “The Aporta Guidebook: Guidelinesfor the Re‐Use of PSI" available online. Audiovisual self‐learningcontents are a pioneering initiative in the EU.

Dissemination of the culture of Re‐

use of PSI

The project portal (www.aporta.es) combined with the use ofWeb 2.0 tools (follow us on twitter: @proyectoaporta) isenabling an ongoing dialogue with the spanish community ofexperts and practitioners related with the reuse of publicinformation.

Catalyses a community of practitioners and experts on the Re‐Use 

of  PSI

The alpha version of the Catalog of Public Sector Informationdeveloped in the Project provides citizens and businesses an easyaccess to the information available at the National Government. It hasmore than 700 records and is under continuous expansion.

Promotes theRe‐use of

PSI

The results of Aporta Project

Source: OECD e-leaders conference, 2010

Aporta Project  as it is seen by others

CCAA

The flowers are blooming: PSI re‐use in Spanish Public Administrations

Comunidades AutónomasGobierno del País Vasco. Open Data

EuskadiGobierno de Cataluña. Datos Abiertos

GencatGobierno del Principado de Asturias.

Catálogo de datosGobierno de Castilla-La Mancha. Portal

de Datos Abiertos de JCCMGobierno de Navarra. Iniciativa Open

Data NavarraGobierno de las Islas Baleares. Dades

Obertes CAIBGobierno de Extremadura. Reutiliz@

City HallAyuntamiento de Badalona. Open DataAyuntamiento de Barcelona. Open

Data BCNAyuntamiento de Córdoba. Open Data

CórdobaAyuntamiento de Gijón. Portal de Datos

AbiertosAyuntamiento de Lleida. Dades obertes

de LleidaAyuntamiento de Zaragoza. Datos

Abiertos de ZaragozaCity HallLegend:

Infomediaries: Companies who re-use publicsector information for create value addedapplications, product and services for thirdparties

Business volume 1.600 M €

Infomediary activity 550-600 M €

5000-5500 employees

230 companiesRe-use of Public Sector

Information SectorsEconomy 37,6%

Cartography 30,5%Legal 17,0%

Transports 5,2%Society and Demography 1,9%

Meteorology 1,1%Others ,… 6,7%

45,7% customers in otherMember States

Size of the companies

Más de 50Entre 11 y 50Entre 1 y 10

Source: “Characterization Study for the Infomediary Sector”, Proyecto Aporta, June 2011

The flowers are blooming: The Infomediary sector (I)

Fuentes: “Informe Anual de los Contenidos Digitales en España 2010”.ONTSI. Valor negocio contenidos digitales2009: 8.004 M€. Video juegos 8% (640 M€); Publicidad on-line 8,2% (656 M€). www.ontsi.red.es“Informe CMT 2009”, ingresos de operadores móviles por itinerancia y tráfico internacional

Millions of Euros

Business volume

The flowers are blooming: The Infomediary sector (II)

Estrategia de Granada

Increase availability of public sector information for reuse. 

R29.M5. Implementation of education and

awareness measures complementary of

Law 37/2007 on reuse of public sector

information, aimed at disseminating the

basic aspects of the regulation and the

promotion of a culture of reuse of public

sector information Spain.

Development of Royal Decree for the Law 37/2007

on reuse of public sector information. ... spelling out

and providing the technical details for the provisions

included in the Law 37/2007 for the national

government

Re‐Use of Public Sector Information in eGovernment Strategy2011‐2015

ADOPTED JULY, 2010

Visibility

Re‐usabilitybarriers

Accesibility

Value of PublicSector 

Information= X Equal

Conditions

The conerstone of the new strategy: Maximising the value of Public Sector Information

Lack of information on reusable data

Uncertainty about what information is reusable

Need to define responsibilities and roles in the re‐use

Conditions for reuse are unclear and fragmented

Provide information using open standards and  machine‐readable formats are not on widespread usage

Directive 2003/98/CE of 17 November 2003 on the re‐use of public sector information

Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the re‐use of public sector information

Source: Study onexclusive agreementsfor reusability of  Public Sector Information – EuropeanCommission, 2010

Spanish Legal framework related to the re‐use of public sector information

Barriers

Lessons for the first years of implementation of Re‐Use of PSI

Rules for a new strategy:  Addressing the barriers ‐ new Royal Decree for Law 37/2007

ADOPTED OCTUBER 21th, 2011

A new portal for a new strategy:Travelling from Aporta.es to datos.gob.es

Focus on the data …

… and what to do with it

Focus on the PSI concept

“The five stars of open data”, Tim Berners-Lee

★Make your stuff available on the web (whatever format)

★★

Make it available as structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)

★★★Non‐proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)

★★★★Use URLs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

★★★★★Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

Our target…

Information is useless if you don´t know how to use it“Five fingers” – Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Conclusions

Data should be open and available by default and exceptions should be justified Neelie Kroes

Re‐Use of Public Sector Information and the Spanish eGovernment Strategy 2011‐2015

Muchas gracias

Emilio Garcia GarciaTechnical Advisor

Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public AdministrationE‐mail: emilio.garcia@mpt.es ‐ Twitter: @egarciagarcia

WWW: http://administracionelectronica.gob.es ‐ Twitter:  @obsaeWWW: http://aporta.es ‐ Twitter: @proyectoaporta