PSI Re-use in France: Overview and Recent Developments
Source: European Public Sector Information (PSI) Platform
Ruth Martinez, GFII, briefing on state of play with PSI re-use in France
London: 7 July 2010
The ePSIplatform has published the 10th in a series of Topic Reports on PSI Re-use and Open Data topics.
Title: PSI Re-use in France: Overview and Recent Developments
Author: Ruth Martinez, General Delegate, GFII (Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information)
Publication Date: 5 July 2010
This latest report is a briefing with reflections and an overview on PSI re-use in France and recent developments. The French situation is under development and changing quickly due to many influences. There is increasing awareness by the public sector and community of the value of public sector information from economic, political and social perspectives.
- The emergence of open data organisations actively engaging in the issues of public sector information re-use from citizen perspectives and at local levels will continue. The importance of convincing examples of re-use and good practices from other European countries and internationally will continue to be important, as will the scrutiny and input by the French community from commercial and citizen perspectives into future developments for opening up government data for re-use in France.
- The upcoming period is promising for France with a PSI data.gov style single access point portal planned to come on stream by the end of 2010. It will also be a challenging one, as it will be for many other European countries, with licensing, pricing, access to raw data and co-ordinating access to local and central data on the agenda.
About the Author
Ruth Martinez is the General Delegate of GFII (Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information), an association composed of public and private players in the field of professional information. Over the years, GFII has contributed to the discussions regarding the re-use of public information and transposition of the European PSI Directive in France. Given its composition which includes public bodies and private companies, GFII’s position reflects a mutual approach of all the actors of the national information sector. Moreover, GFII contributions try to keep a fair balance between citizen access to public sector information, while at the same time encouraging information providers to develop their markets.
About ePSIplatform Topic Reports
Topic Reports will continue to be published on the ePSIplatform. The authors will come from a wide range of disciplines and include policy makers, business leaders, analysts, researchers and academics.
The Reports aim to:
- Provide analytical briefings on PSI re-use issues across key sectors such as geographic, meteorological, business, legal, registries and others
- Support and promote dialogue about and information sharing on developments and good practices from within Europe and internationally
- Monitor business practices and political strategies promoting PSI Re-use
Suggestions for Topic Reports are welcome and can be submitted to the European PSI Platform Team
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