Presentación realizada en 6º Conferencia Ministerial de Administración Electrónica celebrada en Poznan (Noviembre-2011) en la sesión "Benefits and Risks of Public Sector Information Reuse"

1. Re‐Use of Public Sector Information and
the Spanish eGovernment Strategy 2011‐2015
Thousand of flowers blooming
Emilio Garcia Garcia
Technical Advisor
Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administration
emilio.garcia@mpt.es

2. Re‐Use of Public Sector Information:
The Public Sector holds a gold mine of information
The Public Administration collect, produce, reproduce and
disseminate documents on the performance of their duties.
Reuse is the use of these documents,
by physical or legal persons with commercial or noncommercial purposes

3. Aporta: Towards a culture of reusability
OCTOBER 2008
Promote the Foster a
market of culture of
Reuse of Reuse of
Promotes a culture of reuse of Public Sector Public Sector
public sector information, Information Information
raising awareness of the
importance and value of public Pave the way for the
provision by the
sector information and reuse government of the
existing public sector
among government, citizens information
and businesses

4. The results of Aporta Project
Dissemination of More than 800 people have participated directly in the organized
training sessions. The document “The Aporta Guidebook: Guidelines
the culture of Re‐ for the Re‐Use of PSI" available online. Audiovisual self‐learning
use of PSI contents are a pioneering initiative in the EU.
The project portal (www.aporta.es) combined with the use of Catalyses a community
Web 2.0 tools (follow us on twitter: @proyectoaporta) is
of practitioners and
enabling an ongoing dialogue with the spanish community of
experts and practitioners related with the reuse of public experts on the Re‐Use
information. of PSI
The alpha version of the Catalog of Public Sector Information
Promotes the
developed in the Project provides citizens and businesses an easy
Re‐use of access to the information available at the National Government. It has
PSI more than 700 records and is under continuous expansion.

5. Aporta Project as it is seen by others
Source: OECD e-leaders conference, 2010

6. The flowers are blooming: PSI re‐use in Spanish Public Administrations
Comunidades Autónomas
Gobierno del País Vasco. Open Data
Euskadi
Gobierno de Cataluña. Datos Abiertos
Gencat
Gobierno del Principado de Asturias.
Catálogo de datos
Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha. Portal
de Datos Abiertos de JCCM
Gobierno de Navarra. Iniciativa Open
Data Navarra
Gobierno de las Islas Baleares. Dades
Obertes CAIB
Gobierno de Extremadura. Reutiliz@
City Hall
Ayuntamiento de Badalona. Open Data
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Open
Data BCN
Ayuntamiento de Córdoba. Open Data
Córdoba
Ayuntamiento de Gijón. Portal de Datos
Abiertos
Ayuntamiento de Lleida. Dades obertes
de Lleida
Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. Datos Legend: City Hall CCAA
Abiertos de Zaragoza

7. The flowers are blooming: The Infomediary sector (I)
Infomediaries: Companies who re-use public 230 companies
sector information for create value added Re-use of Public Sector
applications, product and services for third Information Sectors
parties Economy 37,6%
Cartography 30,5%
Business volume 1.600 M € Legal 17,0%
Infomediary activity 550-600 M € Transports 5,2%
Society and Demography 1,9%
Meteorology 1,1%
Others ,… 6,7%
5000-5500 employees
Size of the companies
45,7% customers in other Más de 50
Member States Entre 11 y 50
Entre 1 y 10
Source: “Characterization Study for the Infomediary Sector”,
Proyecto Aporta, June 2011

8. The flowers are blooming: The Infomediary sector (II)
Business volume
Millions of Euros
Fuentes: “Informe Anual de los Contenidos Digitales en España 2010”.ONTSI. Valor negocio contenidos digitales
2009: 8.004 M€. Video juegos 8% (640 M€); Publicidad on-line 8,2% (656 M€). www.ontsi.red.es
“Informe CMT 2009”, ingresos de operadores móviles por itinerancia y tráfico internacional

9. Re‐Use of Public Sector Information in eGovernment Strategy
2011‐2015
Estrategia de
Granada
Increase availability of public sector information for reuse.
ADOPTED JULY, 2010
R29.M5. Implementation of education and
awareness measures complementary of
Law 37/2007 on reuse of public sector Development of Royal Decree for the Law 37/2007
information, aimed at disseminating the on reuse of public sector information. ... spelling out
basic aspects of the regulation and the and providing the technical details for the provisions
promotion of a culture of reuse of public included in the Law 37/2007 for the national
sector information Spain. government

10. The conerstone of the new strategy: Maximising the value of
Public Sector Information
Accesibility
Visibility
Value of Equal
Public
Sector = X Conditions
Information Re‐usability
barriers

11. Lessons for the first years of implementation of Re‐Use of PSI
Spanish Legal framework related to the re‐use of public sector information
Directive 2003/98/CE of 17 November 2003 on the re‐use of public sector information
Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the re‐use of public sector information
Lack of information on reusable data
Barriers
Uncertainty about what information is reusable
Need to define responsibilities and roles in the re‐use
Source: Study on Conditions for reuse are unclear and fragmented
exclusive agreements
for reusability of
Public Sector Provide information using open standards and machine‐
Information – European
Commission, 2010 readable formats are not on widespread usage

12. Rules for a new strategy: Addressing the barriers ‐ new Royal
Decree for Law 37/2007
ADOPTED OCTUBER 21th, 2011

13. A new portal for a new strategy:
Travelling from Aporta.es to datos.gob.es
Focus on the PSI concept
Focus on the data …
… and what to do with it

14. Our target…
Make your stuff available
★ on the web (whatever
format)
Make it available as
structured data (e.g.
★★
excel instead of image
scan of a table)
Non‐proprietary format
★★★
(e.g. csv instead of excel)
Use URLs to identify
★★★★ things, so that people can
point at your stuff “The five stars of open data”,
Link your data to other Tim Berners-Lee
★★★★★ people’s data to provide
context

15. Conclusions
Information is useless if you don´t know how to use it
“Five fingers” – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Data should be open and available by default and
exceptions should be justified Neelie Kroes

16. Muchas gracias
Re‐Use of Public Sector Information and
the Spanish eGovernment Strategy 2011‐2015
Emilio Garcia Garcia
Technical Advisor
Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administration
E‐mail: emilio.garcia@mpt.es ‐ Twitter: @egarciagarcia
WWW: http://administracionelectronica.gob.es ‐ Twitter: @obsae
WWW: http://aporta.es ‐ Twitter: @proyectoaporta