EPSIplus: an overview Chris Corbin ePSIplus Thematic Network Analyst OPSI - Licensing Forum 14 th...

ePSIplus: an overview

Chris CorbinePSIplus Thematic Network Analyst

OPSI - Licensing Forum14th December 2006

funded by eContentPlus

ePSIplus: Purpose

The thematic Network will:– Support the implementation of the European Directive on PSI re-use;– Facilitate the major opportunities for business to develop value added

products and services based on PSI.

Be active for 30 months from the 1st September 2006 through to

28th February 2009 (which covers the period leading up to the PSI

Directive review in 2008 by the European Parliament.)

Cover all Member (EU, EEA, EFTA) and candidate states

Cover all PSI domains

Focus on five major themes

ePSIplus, OPSI Licensing Forum, London, 14th December 2006

ePSIplus: Major themes

1. Legal and regulatory progress and impact (including implementation of the Directive)

2. Public sector organisation and culture change (including compliance with the Directive)

3. Encouraging PSI re-use business

4. The financial impact of the Directive: pricing and charging (including impact on public sector costs and budget)

5. Information management, standards and data quality


Theme 1: Legal & Regulatory progress & impact

• Status of transposition; learning from evidence of the impact of the different methods of transposition utilised and the results, with specific attention to outcomes of transposition in New Member States and federal countries.

• Emerging synergies between and mutual effects of FOI/Access regimes and PSI re-use implementation, the Directive on environmental information etc and other ‘neighbouring’ legislation

• Impact of the provisions and recitals of the Directive in areas such as licensing mechanisms, PSI asset discovery, transparency of pricing etc.

• Emerging practice on public sector IPR and copyright assertion.

• Incidence and type of disputes brought to legal resolution.

• Handling and review of exclusive deals (including those based on contracts prior to the Directive)

• Assessment of the requirement to extend the scope of the Directive e.g. to PSI in the culture, education

and scientific research sectors.


Theme 1: Legal & Regulatory progress & impact

• Legal Framework• Monitor transposition progress & the process• Monitoring changes within applicable laws/statutes• Legal analysis (harmonisation - level playing field in law)• Articulating (Guidance) the differences of the legal base across Europe

• Regulatory Framework• Framework (at National (and sub national) and European Level)• Monitoring changes within the Framework• Analysis of the effectiveness of the framework• Monitoring the decisions and actions of the regulators• Articulating (Guidance) the differences within the framework and how to handle them

• Complaint/Appeal/Judication Framework• Framework (at National (and sub national) and European Level)• Monitoring changes within the Framework• Analysis of the effectiveness of the framework• Monitoring decisions• Articulating (Guidance) the differences within the framework and how to handle them


Theme 2: Public sector organisation and culture change

• Managing the consequences of frequent changes in public sector structure for PSI re-use.

• The experiences of local government in complying with the Directive and supporting re-use.

• The relationship between e-government, public-private partnerships (PPP), private financing initiatives (PFI) and their impact on PSI re-use at different stages of the value chain.

• The effects of public sector data sharing policies on PSI re-use (including IPR issues)

• Training and support initiatives and infrastructures (e.g. competence centres) for central and local government agencies to support PSI re-use.


Theme 3: Encouraging PSI re-use business

• The role of European Associations in raising awareness of PSI re-use market potential and stimulating activity: possibilities for a Pan-European forum on PSI-re-use.

• Factors underlying demand for and creation of pan-European products.

• Inter-sector learning and analysis: what makes some sectors more successful in PSI re-use business and what lessons can be transferred? What business models work?

• Effective training, knowledge transfer and support mechanisms for

entrepreneurs, role of organisations such as Chambers of Commerce.



• Create & Maintain Business Directory• Cross border and pan European businesses

• Establish Industry Action Group (IAG)• Objectives & Mission• TOR’s• Organisational Structure• Document the value add of a PSI IAG (Consider reticent of existing pan

European Associations)• Test ideas and seek potential volunteers via debate on the discussion

forum



• The effects of the Directive on the PSI value chain, on costs, access and organisation within the public sector, including remedies for budget loss as a result of new charging policies.

• Developments in pricing and charging policies: emerging impact and approaches toward free of charge access, marginal costs charging, ‘reasonable return on investment’ policies etc

• Impact of varying fiscal and public sector cost-recovery approaches across

Europe


Theme 4: Impact on pricing

Background paper on issues and good practice

Meeting 1

Publish materials and report on Meeting 1

Meeting 2


Meeting 3


Undertake web based survey and report

Final report on the Financial impact of the PSI Directive

Present to final conference

ePSIpluswebsite

Country Reports


Actors within the ePSIplus thematic network

• Network co-ordinator (MDR)

• Analysts (5 subcontracted)

• National Network Members (30)

• Pan European Network Members (6)

• Registered stakeholders (1000 target 5000+)


ePSIplus: Analysts

Roles

• Record discussions, monitor and move forward thematic agendas, compile analytic reports

• Lead and set agendas for thematic meetings

• Co-ordinate expert participation each thematic meeting

• An analyst will participate in every national meeting

For example Chris Corbin has been allocated:

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Malta


ePSIplus: Network Partners

Roles

- Identifying experts to partake in network meetings- Hosting national meetings- Assisting with Information dissemination within country/sector- Information gathering and reporting on the situation within the

country or sector- Attending Network meetings

And in addition

- Six members serve on the Project Management Board - 5 currently appointed: Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Romania, and Slovenia

Network partners sign a grant agreement and agree to abide by the Network Rules


ePSIplus: Registered Stakeholders

Roles/benefits

• Database of potential experts/invitees for meetings

• Register for Newsletter

• Participate in online discussions

• Supply case information

• Have access to unpublished ePSIplus documents


ePSIplus: Meetings

Network kick off meeting held in Prague, 30/31 October 2006(All the materials from the meeting are available on the ePSIplus web site)

15 Thematic cross-border workshops(3 iterative meetings for each of the 5 thematic areas)

(Legal & Regulation theme workshop 1, planned for February 2007, Hague, Netherlands)

(Public Sector Organisation theme workshop 1, Prague - Czech Republic, 11 April 2007 - 5th Eastern European eGov Days 2007 11 - 13 April 2007)

(Pricing impact theme workshops - Helsinki 19- 20 April 2007, London November 2007, Rome June 2008)

Up to 35 National and Federal level meetings (Cyprus February 2007)

Final Conference


ePSIplus: Web Site

Live: 27.09.06

Objective:

To become the first port of call for information on PSI re-use

Target5000+ Registered PSI stakeholders


ePSIplus: Web Site - continued


One of the deliverables for the ePSIplus project is a scorecard system by which compliance with the main provisions of the re-use of public sector information Directive can be measured.

• The scorecard will be publicised as a special feature on the ePSIplus website.

• The scorecard will be regularly updated throughout the lifetime of the ePSIplus project.

• The deliverable is part of theme 1, Legal and regulatory progress and impact.

• All ePSIplus themes will contribute to the scorecard.

ePSIplus: Web Site - Score card



EU Co-Decision Process

Re-use PSI

5.06.02

31.12.03

19 Months

Member States

Transposition 18 Months

1.07.05

16+ months

Step: 1

Step: 2

Step: 3Member State Public Sector

compliance

Step: 4Impact on

CurrentPSI re-users

Compliance

Time to Reach Critical Mass

EU25 = 33+ Months


UK OFT861 Report 2006

MEPSIR Report 2006

Month 9 survey of LocalGovernment report 2006(ePSIplus Reports - Assessing Transparency)


Score card outline structure

Scorecard

Scorecarddatabase

Theme 1Reports

Theme 3Reports

Theme 2Reports

Theme 4Reports

Theme 5Reports

CountryReports

ProofSystem

The ePSIplus Thematic Network

Bibliography

National Meeting Reports

PSI MediaWatch

PSI Presentation

Watch


ePSIplus: Web Site - Score card (an example)

European PSI Scorecard - Transposition(Maximum Score = 5)

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

UK



TABLE 1: FIGURE 2, Step 2 sub steps, and scoring Level Attribute Description Score

1 EU Directive has not been transposed 0 2 EU Directive has been transposed, the Member State has notified the European

Commission and the transposition applies to all parts of the country. (In federal structures this includes transposition within each Federal entity).

1

3 Within the country there is a central (federal) government body responsible for the implementation of the PSI Directive within that country, (a PSI Regulator) which has a web site which is dedicated to PSI re-use or has a dedicated section on PSI re-use, has an established complaint and appeal process in place which is open, transparent and active, contains a register of all the public bodies that come within the PSI Framework (including the links to their web sites).

2

4 The responsible body has published guidelines, standard licences, case studies, and optionally maintains a PSI related document archive all of which are transparent and visible on the web site.

3

5 The responsible body undertakes pro-active awareness raising and training within the public sector.

4

6 The responsible body publishes annual reports, monitoring reports. 5



Summary - Scorecard is a tool (or mechanism) to: Summary - Scorecard is a tool (or mechanism) to:

• Monitor complianceMonitor compliance

• Stimulate debateStimulate debate

• Stimulate feedbackStimulate feedback

• Stimulate competition and complianceStimulate competition and compliance

• Enables quick comparisons to be madeEnables quick comparisons to be made


ePSIplus: Publications

Other publications (that do not result from the thematic activities)

• Quarterly newsletter• Glossary• Country reports• PSI Media watch• PSI Presentation watch• PSI Tips• PSI Bibliography


ePSIplus: Over view

Web Site

Quarterly newsletter

Thematic Reports

Country Reports

Conference Report

Final Conclusions & recommendations

PSI Industry Action Group

Terms of Reference

Management documents

Objective &

Aims

Strategy Membership

Information gathering and analysis

Desk Research

Surveys & questionnaires

Analysis

Information exchange and Consensus Building

Thematic Meetings (3 Meetings for each of 5 themes) (15 off)

Country meetings (25 off)

Federal (Regional) Meetings (10 off)

Final Conference

Start End

Project Management, Monitoring internal indictors, assessment, and reporting

Reports


ePSIplus knowledge cycle

Thematic agenda Thematic meeting

National agendas

Analytic updateson themes

National meetingsNational issue updates


Summary

Assess and report on the impact of the Re-use PSI Directive.

Demonstrate (through the network) the improved understanding of re-use of PSI across Europe

Report and propose recommendations for the PSI Directive Review.

We hope that all members of the Licensing Forum will participate in ePSIplus


A one-stop shop on PSI re-use

www.ePSIplus.net

http://www.epsiplus.net/



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