Why a European event on the local Open Data and Reuse? http://www.epsiplatform.eu Everywhere in Europe, member states and local authorities are committing themselves to open up their public data. What does this mean? It gives the opportunity to others (administrations, entrepreneurs, NGOs, citizens, researchers) to reuse the vast amount of data national and local authorities produce in their daily business: geographical, statistical, transport, service information and so on. What for? To improve the services delivered to the citizens or to envisage new ones, to raise new knowledge, to enrich the public debate. In France, Rennes appears to be the pioneer city on this issue, soon to be caught up by Bordeaux, Montpellier, Paris... However, what is currently happening elsewhere in Europe? What are the flagship initiatives? What are the difficulties faced and the problems to solve? How do we reach value creation for all? During a one-day event, we aim at sharing local experiences and good practices, encouraging synergies and creating a European dynamic around the Open Data issue. By sharing initiatives and gathering strengths, leverages for action will emerge. Rennes is hosting this meeting as a follow on from the event held in Madrid, June 2010. It is organized by Greater Rennes, the Region of Bretagne and co-ordinated with Fing, ePSIplatform, GFII, PSI Alliance and e-mégalis.

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Hôtel de Rennes Métropole,
4 Avenue Henri Fréville,
Rennes, France
Open Data and Re-use:
What is happening at local levels in Europe?
29 November 2010
9:30 – 17:00 (CET)

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Hôtel de Rennes Métropole,
4 Avenue Henri Fréville,
Rennes, France
Why a European event on the local Open Data and Reuse?
Everywhere in Europe, member states and local authorities are committing themselves to open
up their public data. What does this mean? It gives the opportunity to others (administrations,
entrepreneurs, NGOs, citizens, researchers) to reuse the vast amount of data national and local
authorities produce in their daily business: geographical, statistical, transport, service information
and so on. What for? To improve the services delivered to the citizens or to envisage new ones, to
raise new knowledge, to enrich the public debate.
In France, Rennes appears to be the pioneer city on this issue, soon to be caught up by Bordeaux,
Montpellier, Paris... However, what is currently happening elsewhere in Europe? What are the
flagship initiatives? What are the difficulties faced and the problems to solve? How do we reach
value creation for all?
During a one-day event, we aim at sharing local experiences and good practices, encouraging
synergies and creating a European dynamic around the Open Data issue. By sharing initiatives and
gathering strengths, leverages for action will emerge.
Rennes is hosting this meeting as a follow on from the event held in Madrid, June 2010. It is
organized by Greater Rennes, the Region of Bretagne and co-ordinated with Fing, ePSIplatform,
GFII, PSI Alliance and e-mégalis.
The targeted audience
The event is directed to:
The stakeholders that produce data:
• Local authorities;
• National public services;
• Public organisations, public service providers;
The stakeholders that reuse data:
• Private: national, international, local businesses, start-ups…
• NGOs, citizens
• Academic: universities, engineering schools, design school
Media
More than 100 attendees are expected with perhaps one-third coming from all over
Europe.

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Programme
9.00-9 :30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Introduction
Welcoming and introduction by Gwenegan BUI, elected representative of the Brittany region, in
charge of territorial policy and digital planning.
Thematic introduction by representatives from FING, ePSIplatform and GFII.
10:00-11:00 Session 1: Opening Up Local Public Data
Focus on several flagship initiatives in France and in Europe:
Xavier Crouan, Director of information and digital innovation, Rennes city and Rennes Métropole.
Michel Briand, elective representative of Brest Métropole Océane, in charge of social and
solidarity-based economy and digital country planning, and
François Vigouroux, in charge of the geographic information system of Brest Métropole Océane.
Victoria Moody Trafford Council, and Julian Tait FutureEveryThing, Greater Manchester, United
Kingdom.
Chris Taggart, project Openlylocal, United Kingdom.
Each presentation will describe the aim targeted, the kind of data concerned, the needs identified as
well as the problems and difficulties faced.
11:00-11:15 Flash session
Focus on 2 innovative projects regarding data reuse:
• Initiative of visualisation of veloSTAR in Rennes
• Tangui Morlier, Regards Citoyens
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 Session 2: Reuse of opendata
Focus on projects reusing local public data:
Denis Berthault, Director of Information, Lexis-Nexis, GFII, PSI Alliance Europe
Didier Gorron, Transpacités, France
Maria Mercé Rovira, University of Girona, Spain
Jarmo Eskelinen, Forum Virium, Apps For Democracy in Helsinki, Finland
Dariusz Glazewski, MediaSelf, re-use of PSI by Slowinski National Park, Poland
The idea of this session is to discover by concrete examples how data have been identified, searched
for, used; how accessible have they been (free to access, intense research, on demand, development of
a specific licence, etc.); eventually how it is possible to make the process simpler for re-users.

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12:45-13:15 Conclusion of the morning presentations
Andrej Osterman, Information and Communication Officer, Information Society and Media DG,
European Commission.
Rob Davies, co-ordinator, ePSIplatform.
13:15-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Workshops
Six themed workshops to collectively increase the understanding of specific questions:
• Open data and modernising public services: design of new services, new ways of giving value
to public services
Facilitated by: Frédérique Suming DGME (Directorate of e-government) and
Céline Faivre, Excutive Director, e-Megalis (union of public informatics in Brittany)
• Data co-production and crowdsourcing by citizens
Facilitated by: Valérie Peugeot Orange Labs
• Transparency of data and democracy
Facilitated by: Claire Gallon LiberTIC (Nantes)
• Developing European licensing for public data reuse
Facilitated by: Anne Fauconnier, APIE (French national agency of non-material capital)
• Making the most of the innovation potential: enlarge the re-users community
Facilitated by : GFII
• Consequences – impact of opening up of public data: work on foresight scenarios
Facilitated by : Daniel Kaplan, CEO of the FING
16:00-16:30 Feedback on the Workshop
16:30-17:00 Conclusion
Announcement by Michael Fanning, Online Consultants International GmbH, Germany and Chair
of Programme for the next ePSIplatform meeting in Berlin in 2011.
Daniel Kaplan, FING
Conclusion of the journey.

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Rennes, France
About the Partners
Greater Rennes
The recent technological evolution around the mobile Internet
will foster changes in usages as well as new forms of relationships
between the citizens and the authorities, between citizens and
elected representatives. To answer this new and increasing
demand, Rennes, as a pioneer in France, has decided to anticipate the upcoming movement
and to broadly free its public data. To speed up the movement, Rennes is currently launching a
contest untitled "Free access to Rennes" with €50.000-worth awards.
The release of public data and the creation of innovative services by citizens, raise questions on a
future governance where the citizen is the user and the citizen becomes a producer of services
and information systems. Does it represent a loss of power for public authorities or on the
contrary does it foster a greater transparency? Does it build the basis for a co-produced city, a
greater collaborative and open dynamic with citizens? Is it the beginning of a new form of
governance? These questions and others are the ones we, including elected representatives, will
have to tackle to fit with the increasing and ineluctable demand from users and citizens.
This is above all a great opportunity to engage citizens in a participative approach based on co-
design, dedicated to the living together that we all look for. It enables to put digital technologies
in the service of a social dynamic. It also deals with the belief in the creative intelligence of
territorial lifeblood.
The Region of Brittany
With its project ‘Digital Brittany ‘, the region wants to make sure each citizen
gets access to the new services and usages digital technologies offer, to
prevent the social and territorial divide and to promote a balanced demography
between the Region’s areas as well as equal access to public services. To be
consistent with its sustainable agenda (Agenda 21), the Region of Brittany aims
to facilitate the use of public data by citizens and economic stakeholders and
encouraging service innovation using public data. After its geographic data, the
Region is considering opening its transport information. The Region of Brittany supports this new
dynamic and would like to raise elected representatives’ awareness at a regional level on the
issues connected to opening public data.
www.rennes-metropole.fr
www.bretagne.fr

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La FING
For the past 10 years, Fing has been helping private businesses, public sector
institutions and national territories to anticipate changes inspired by
technology and its uses. It has built a new kind of think tank, whose efforts are
widely recognized throughout Europe and beyond.
Within the framework of its program "2.0" cities, Fing (Foundation Internet
new generation) showed how much cities, to ensure a sustainable economic and social
development, needed to release the forces of innovation on their territory: public companies,
associations, actors and citizens. During 2010, Fing has been committed to a national campaign
to open of public data in collaboration with several localities and actors (innovators, public
actors, service providers). Fing explores the transformational potential of technologies, when it
is placed in millions of hands. Its objective is to increase the innovating capacity of the economic
framework and all of society.
ePSIplatform
The European Public Sector Information Platform is a European Union
funded project aimed at releasing the potential value of public sector
information across Europe. The team works with both the PSI re-use
community and the open data community and is committed to the
opening up of public sector information. ePSIplatform manages an
interactive website which reports developments, monitors progress and publicises events.
Visitors to the website are encouraged to contribute their knowledge, their ideas and also learn
more about public sector information.
GFII
Created in 1979, GFII is a French association, composed of public and private
players of the information and knowledge industry. One of its working groups
gathers together professional experts in reuse of public information. Its
missions: to encourage and assist the public producers in order to promote
the dissemination of their data, taking into account the economic conditions
of all parties.
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www.fing.org
www.gfii.asso.fr

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PSI Alliance
The PSI Alliance was established in order to encourage the public
sector to maintain a trading environment that is fair and
equitable, in particular in relation to the licensing and re-use of
public sector information (PSI). Members are private sector companies and associations who are
committed to working with PSI holders towards the maintenance and development of a vibrant,
information-driven EU economy that ultimately works to the benefit of the public sector, private
sector and the end consumer.
e-mégalis
Created in 1999, the joint commission e-mégalis Brittany is a
federative organisation that gathers 77 members representing 835
towns out of the 1238 in Brittany, the Region of Brittany, the 4
department councils, 9 metropolitan areas, 1 urban area, 59
communities of towns, 3 towns (Dinard, Landerneau, Quiberon).
In 2006, the organization created a regional platform of e-administration, namely e-mégalis, a
one-stop shop for digitalized services benefiting the local authorities and public organizations in
Brittany. The platform favours the development of e-administration uses and services to all of
Brittany's area, in compliance with the founding principles of territorial cooperation and resource
sharing. The first service created on the platform has been the regional online room for public
procurement that now involves 534 public entities using it and about 15.000 recorded industries.
Other compulsory and legal services are offered on the platform to e-mégalis members such as:
the remote transmission of legal or accounting documents, the electronic certificates and so on.
On 10 December 2010, e-mégalis is organising in Pacé (Ille-et-Villaine) the first e-administration
gathering in Brittany. Agenda and online registration:
www.e-megalisbretagne.org/Rencontres2010
www.psialliance.eu
www.e-megalisbretagne.org