APPSI in the Chair!
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PSI in Action – Transforming the Information Landscape: 4 days to go!
Brighton: 15 October 2009
On Tuesday the 20th October 2009 the UK Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) together with Civil Service World will be hosting the PSI in Action – Transforming the Information Landscape conference.
The welcome address and the Chair for the day will be Professor David Rhind, Chair of the UK Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. The APPSI terms of reference include two that relate to the provision of advise to Ministers and also to the Director of the Office of Public Sector Information and Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
APPSI has recently published a document titled Exploiting government’s information assets for public good. One of the key points of the paper is stated as:
“We identify some policy changes and other actions, which would considerably facilitate successful re-use of PSI;”
The paper has been submitted to the Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice Michael Will’s and to the Director of OPSI and Controller of HMSO both of who will be presenting at the conference.
The title of the Director of OPSI’s presentation is listed in the program as Transforming the Information Landscape and Michael Wills MP, Minister for Information will then follow a little later to give the Keynote address.
The presentations combined with the recently published APPSI report will enable a comparison to be made between the suggested APPSI actions with those from the Minister and the OPSI Director, which may help ascertain whether the UK Information Landscape really has been transformed with respect to the use and re-use of public sector information.
Recommended viewing and reading in preparation for the Conference:
- The Power of Information Agenda in the UK video presented by Richard Allan to a Conference held in Canberra Australia in late August 2009. The video highlights how UK initiatives keep coming up against barriers, which the APPSI report has put forward a number of short and long term actions.
- Economic issues in funding and supplying public sector information – a short working paper produced by John Cook, Brisbane, Australia
- The ‘REAL’ value of PSI, John Gray, APPSI Member
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