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Presentation (FR) (PDF)
Open Data checklist (FR) (PDF)
"Best practices" guide (FR) (PDF)
Open data is a driver for innovation, economic growth, transparency and participation. According to a European study (ref. COM (2011) 882), the total economic benefits that could result from making government data accessible in the EU would be up to 40 billion euros per year. This data lends itself ideally to reuse in new products and services and can ensure more efficient government. Opening up government data strongly engages citizens in political and social life. It also contributes to policy areas such as the environment, mobility and the economy.
In doing so, government departments make data that they already hold as part of their missions available for reuse to citizens, researchers, businesses and governments.
More specifically, this concerns data that:
- the public administrations have collected in the context of their missions of data collection;
- do not (or no longer) contain privacy-sensitive information and are not subject to the protection of third-party intellectual property rights;
- are released in a format that can be easily re-used automatically ("machine readable");
- may be reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
This is not just about providing data from government agencies, but also about building an environment ("community") around this data. After all, companies can reuse certain data and further enrich them with their own information to market new products and services. Citizens obtain a more transparent government and can assist government agencies in improving existing public data and services.
