Commercial opportunities with public sector information
Published : 27 May 2010
SONA principal Shane O’Neill delivered the closing Keynote address at this week’s E Publishing Innovations conference – a gathering of 150 senior publishing and software executives at Incisivemedia’s prestigious annual forum.
The theme was on the commercial opportunities opened up for the private sector by recent developments in Making Public Data Public (the policy initiative flagshipped by Tim Berners Lee). Shane outlined the long history of this policy development, the significance of the OS OpenData initiative and particularly the launch of data.gov.uk. He illustrated how this policy was being continued by the new Coalition Government, with many of its principles enshrined in the Right to Data bill proposed in this week's Queen's Speech.
Having succinctly shown the evolution of policy, he then moved on to indicate the steps which might to be taken by private sector enterprises if they were to take advantage of the opening up of public sector data. Not least this required systematic analysis of what problems they were trying to solve for their customers, and which data may be required to be part of a solution contextualised within the customer’s workflow.
“Developing new information solutions is a bit like creating your own recipe, in which public sector information may be an essential ingredient.” Shane then moved on to give real examples of successful public sector information exploitations.
He closed with a rousing call for the private sector to match Government's own efforts here to help leverage these critical information assets.
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Commercial opportunities with PSI
too early to say!
It's the same with Data Gov UK - give it a chance.
Commercial opportunities with PSI
The real issue is whether Departments have the resources to release the data in a linked format and I think a Sir Humphrey moment could arise where senior officials say to Ministers, "Where are we going to find 10% cuts and change/provide all this info and answer the flood of questions which will emerge as data is mashed and as cuts begin to bite.................you do want to be re-elected don't you!!"