= The report discusses the current and potential role, in a truly open society, of raw Public Sector Information (PSI) that is really open, that is fully accessible and reusable by everybody.

URL = http://stop.zona-m.net/2011/01/the-open-data-open-society-report-2/

Description

Marco Fioretti:

"Open Data, Open Society is a report I wrote for the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. The report represents the first part of a research project (1) financed through the DIME network (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe), as part of DIME Work Package 6.8, coordinated by Professor Giulio Bottazzi.

The report discusses the current and potential role, in a truly open society, of raw Public Sector Information (PSI) that is really open, that is fully accessible and reusable by everybody. The general characteristics of PSI and the conclusions are based on previous studies and on the analysis of current examples both from the European Union and the rest of the world.

The full report is released under a Creative Commons cc-by license (2) and can be freely downloaded as a single file in HTML or PDF format from the websites of DIME (3) and of the Sant'Anna school (4). In order to facilitate as much as possible feedback and discussion on each single part, the whole report, split in separate pages with comments open to anonymous readers, is also available online at

http://stop.zona-m.net/2011/01/the-open-data-open-society-report-2/

The "Open Data, Open Society" project will continue with an online survey that will attempt to assess how many types of raw PSI are already released, in which formats and under which licenses, by the city and regional administration of the EU-15 countries. A final report will summarize and comment the results of the survey.

References:

1) http://stop.zona-m.net/?p=52

2) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

3) http://www.dime-eu.org/editions

4) http://www.lem.sssup.it/books.html