Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

APPSI's Annual Report covers the work of the Panel from April 2008 to March 2009, and sets out some priorities for the future.  The key highlights of the report include:

• the advice that the Panel gave to Michael Wills, Minister of State for Justice in 2008; and its recommendations to official consultations that are central to the re-use of public sector information (PSI) agenda;
• the key issues emerging from policy developments which the Panel has discussed and debated at its meetings and annual seminar;
• the work undertaken by specific members of the Panel in reviewing APPSI's complaints review function; and
• the Panel's role in spreading knowledge and awareness of the value of PSI.

APPSI-Annual_Report-2008-09.pdf (1.48 MB)

Press Release for APPSI Annual Report 2008-09

The highlights of this meeting include:

• A presentation by Michael Cross, co-founder of the Guardian newspaper's 'Free Our Data' Campaign';
• A discussion with Andrew Stott, Director of Digital Engagement at the Cabinet Office on the Digital Engagement project's priorities.

See the papers for this meeting:

• 23.07.09-Agenda.pdf (67.61 KB)
• Paper1-18.05.09-APPSI-minutes.pdf (192.42 KB)
• Paper2-EPSIplatform.pdf (1012.2 KB)
• Paper3a-Local Govsurvey.pdf (257.16 KB)
• Paper3b-LCC1-Fees.pdf (146.99 KB)
• Paper3c-BuildingRegsFees.pdf (131.78 KB)
• 23-07-09-APPSI-minutes.pdf (66.19 KB)

Michael Wills Minister of State for Justice has been sent a briefing which sets out the Panel's views on Ordnance Survey's new business strategy.

The briefing is preceded with a covering letter from David Rhind, Chair of APPSI, which updates the  Minister on various PSI developments since their meeting in early June.  The briefing itself welcomes and acknowledges the principles underpinning Ordnance Survey's new Business Strategy and their importance in facilitating resolution of one of the longest running and most distracting issues in the public sector information world. It also highlights many of the issues which need to be resolved before any Strategy can be realised and make some constructive comments on these.  This briefing was sent to the Shareholder Executive leading on the implementation of Ordnance Survey's new business strategy on 29 May 2009.

See the full briefing, including the Chair of APPSI's letter to Michael Wills: 09-07-09-APPSI-briefing-to-MW.pdf (244.83 KB)