PSI Media Watch 1/2006

PSI related items that have recently appeared in the printed and electronic media

The ePSIplus project wishes to thank the following people for bringing the PSI media watch items listed below to the projects attention – thank you.

Gayle Gander - Intelligent Addressing, UK Jeff Thurston - GEO International Magazine, Germany Roger Longhorn – I-DRA, Belgium Serena Coetzee – University of Pretoria, South Africa Steven Ramage – Laser-Scan, UK

October 19: Publication: The Guardian Author: Heather Brook Title: At last, the price is right for access to our laws Subject: The Guardian has found out that citizens will not be charged for access to the Statute Law Database

October 19: Publication: Computing Author: James Brown Title: Dispute hits Property System Subject: Lack of mapping data is holding back national address database.

October 18: Publication: datastandard.co.uk Author: Datablog Title: Interview with Gayle Gander, Head of Marketing for Intelligent Addressing Subject: An interesting interview that presents both background information on the National Land and Property Gazetteer, its conformance to the British Standard BS 7666, and the issues that Intelligent Addressing face in marketing and selling the NLPG. The response to the question: How close is the NLPG to being a saleable product, and whom do you see as being the first customers? Is particularly interesting from the PSI Regulations 2005 perspective!

October 17: Publication: GEO International Magazine Author: Jeff Thurston Title: New EU program - ePSIplus - Starts Up Subject: Announces the ePSIplus project

October 12: Publication: MIT840A Author: Professor Martin Olivier, Pretoria University, Department of Computer Science Title: Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) Subject: The public sector collects, produces, reproduces and disseminates a wide range of information in many areas of activity, such as social, economic, geographical, weather, tourist, business, patent and educational information. The European ePSIplus project is looking at the re-use of PSI data in all the EU member states –refer to ePSIplus The question is, what is the situation with PSI data in South Africa?

October 12: Publication: JUstGO - Joined Up Strategic Targets for Government Online Author: News Editor Title: European knowledge economy bigger than US Subject: Reports on the recently published Work Foundation report Defining the knowledge economy - Knowledge economy programme report, by Ian Brinkley

October 10: Publication : Information Society Development Committee, Latvia Author: Šaltinis: IVPK Title: Pradėjo veikti viešojo sektoriaus informacijos portalas "ePSIplus" Subject: Announcing the ePSIplus project portal

October: Publication : National Computer Centre - ITadviser, Issue 45, September/October 2006 Author: Richard Sarson Title: Creating a market for public sector data Subject: The Cabinet Office would like to see the public sector selling its data for re-use, many individual Ministries are dragging their feet.

October: Publication: GEO International Magazine Author: Mike Sanderson CEO, Laser-Scan Title: Goths & Visigoths on the outskirts of Rome – time up on SDI? Subject: The article poses the question: Nobody can doubt that 3D visualisation is a better paradigm than the last century 2D paper map. But are we really any closer to accessing ‘New opportunities for better decision-making and saving money..’? Before answering consider the following topics: Public Sector Information (PSI), Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and Knowledge Economies.

The ePSI plus project welcomes contributions from all that have an interest in Public Sector Information and its use and re-use. If you read an article in the media or on a blog then please inform the ePSIplus PSI Media watch by emailing the Title and the URL to ePSIplus Analyst. Articles written in all languages are welcome.