Italian Piemonte Region: European #Opendata Leader and Innovator
Source: EVPSI (Extracting Value from Public Sector Information: Legal Framework and Regional Policies), Piemonte Region, Italy
Piemonte EVPSI Project studies PSI re-use: legal issues at the regional level
Torino: 24 July 2010
Increasingly regional governments across Europe with political commitments to open data are leading the way. Examples are evident in the Spanish Basque and Asturias regions. The results are open data portals, related resources coming online and proactive engaging with business communities and citizens.
The Italian Regione Piemonte is also a European leader and innovator in local open data policy development and practices. During May 2010, Piemonte launched an online beta data portal - dati.piemonte.it. The portal fits into Category ‘One’ on the ePSIplatform PSI (Public Sector Information) Data Catalogues page. There has also been the successful launch of Launch of it.ckan.net for open data in Italy (working with the Open Knowledge Foundation’s CKAN).
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EVPSI Project
The innovative EVPSI Project, which started work during November 2009, is also financed and supported by the Regione Piemonte.
EVPSI stands for Extracting Value from Public Sector Information: Legal Framework and Regional Policies.
Project Partners are:
- Department of Legal Studies of Torino Law School
- Nexa Center for Internet & Society of the Politecnico di Torino
- Fondazione Rosselli
- Eastern Piedmont University
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EVPSI is working to understand and maximise the benefits of access and re-use of public sector information at the regional level. An important project goal is to work on drafting guidelines.
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What is EVPSI Studying?
EVPSI has published online their project work programme online and the key work falls into the following packages (full text online – English language).
Work Package 9: Dissemination & Awareness (DISSEMINATION)
- RESPONSIBLE: Marco Ricolfi.
Work Package 8: Policy Recommendations (POLICY)
- RESPONSIBLE: Federico Morando.
Work Package 7: PSI as building block for User Generated Content (UGC)
- RESPONSIBLE: Juan Carlos De Martin.
Work Package 6: Legal issues: Downstream Compliance (COMPLIANCE)
- RESPONSIBLE: Alberto Musy.
Work Package 5: Legal Issues: Privacy and Data Protection (PRIVACY)
- RESPONSIBLE: Ugo Pagallo.
The governance architecture that will coordinate the work of partners, beneficiaries and stakeholders is composed of the following:
Work Package 4: Legal issues: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
- RESPONSIBLE: Marco Ricolfi.
WP4, along with WP5 (PRIVACY) and WP6 (CONTROL), forms the core of the project in terms of theoretical legal research. It includes (at least) three sub-themes:
- Rules on ownership (of the information itself and/or of the products of possible re-uses);
- Other rules currently granting exclusive rights and otherwise restricting access, dissemination and re-use;
- Rules on re-uses.
- RESPONSIBLE: Lorenzo Benussi.
Work Package 2: Mapping regional public sector information (MAPPING)
- RESPONSIBLE: Maria Margherita Salvadori.
Work Package 1: Project management (MANAGEMENT)
- RESPONSIBLE: Marco Ricolfi.
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