Data to the people - 乌鸦传媒 Portugal

New Point of View 鈥淒ata to the People鈥� discusses the history, achievements, and immediate future of government open data and public data resources.

What is open data? How can it be used for the common good? What can we learn from open data approaches already adopted in Europe? These are among the questions answered in this paper,聽Data to the People.听It is the first of two papers examining open data and the creation of enabling ecosystems.

We learn that regulation supporting data sharing, particularly in Europe, has deep roots and includes both a mandate to make governments鈥� data available in the open and the support to enable controlled data ecosystems, such as in the 鈥渄ata space鈥� model.

To leverage its full potential, open data needs to be embedded in creating new data sharing approaches that consider government, organizations, citizens, technology, and the legal framework altogether as a system, Hence the term聽Collaborative Data Ecosystem.

Data to the People covers:

The journey to open data and data ecosystems
The impact of open data 鈥� making the business case
The EU Open Data Directive as a push for interoperability of high-value datasets across Europe
The Data Governance Act 鈥� a new frontier for European open data

It offers both inspiration and lessons from the substantial effort that Europe is putting into developing its policies and technology to make open data not only available but impactful too.

With Europe鈥檚 Data Governance Act expected to be adopted by the European Parliament in early 2022, Member States will have between 12 and 18 months before it becomes enforceable. Public sector bodies must start to ramp up their open data activities now to be ready for a new era in the use of data.

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