B9 10887. Speech Neelie Kroes, Europese Commissie (Digital Agenda): (Open Public) Data is the new oil for the digital age. The use and re-use public data.
“(…) the digital revolution is not just about having cool new gadgets and new ways to interact. These tools are changing the way we can find information and express ourselves. They can rejuvenate politics and support democracy itself. (…) Let me underline one initiative that I am supporting to make digital technology work for governance and transparency: by opening up public data. In the digital age, data takes on a whole new value, and with new technology we can do great things with it. Opening it up is not just good for transparency, it also stimulates great web content, and provides the fuel for a future economy.
That's why I say that data is the new oil for the digital age. How many other ways could stimulate a market worth 70 billion euros a year, without spending big budgets? Not many, I'd say. So we are planning to shake up how public authorities share data. We have recently proposed amendments to the Public Sector Information Directive: these would make it cheaper, simpler and more automatic for you to use and re-use public data.
Under our proposals, instead of needing complicated authorisations, people would be automatically allowed to re-use public data. Instead of high charges, they would only have to pay marginal costs, if at all.
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