APPSI has today submitted its response to the DCLG consultation on Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey.

See APPSI-response-to-GI-Consultation.pdf (291.65 KB)

requests the pleasure of your company at its

on Wednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00am-4:00pm

at The Residence Palace, Brussels

The PSI Alliance was established in order to encourage the public sector to maintain a trading environment that is fair and equitable, in particular in relation to the licensing and re-use of public sector information (PSI).

Members are private sector companies and associations who are committed to working with PSI holders towards the maintenance and development of a vibrant, information-driven EU economy that ultimately works to the benefit of the public sector, private sector and the end consumer.

Speakers at the Annual Conference include Javier Hernández-Ros, Head of Unit, Access to Information, European Commission; Professor Nigel Shadbolt, UK Government Information Adviser; Gustaf Johnssén, Senior Advisor, Swedish Ministry of Finance; Ignacio Durán Boo, Deputy General Director Cadastre , Spanish Ministry Economy and Finance; Michael Fanning, CEO Online Consultants International GmbH; Rolf Nordqvist, Chairman of the PSI Alliance.

The conference is free to PSI Alliance members and for non members is 95 Euros (plus VAT) before 28th May or 150 Euros (plus VAT) before 16th June.  Any non-member who attends the conference and then joins the PSI Alliance will have their conference fee deducted from the cost of membership.

For futher information and to RSVP please contact Danient Bacall: danielbacall@luther.co.uk, Tel: + 44 (0) 207 618 9100

PSI-Alliance-June-Annual-Conference-Agenda.pdf (55.1 KB)

See also the PSI Alliance website.

The highlights of this meeting include:

• presentation from The National Archives on plans for the Statute Law Database as part of the legislation service
• presentation from The National Archives on the government's progress on a new licensing pilot
• presentation from APPSI's economist on the pricing of PSI

Meeting papers:

17.02.10-APPSI-Agenda.pdf (82.63 KB)

Paper1-17-09-09-APPSI-minutes.pdf (152 KB)

Paper-2-10.12.09-APPSI-Seminar-minutes.pdf (244.17 KB)

Paper3_StatuteLawDatabase-presentation.pdf (1.25 MB)

Paper4_presentation-on-creative-commons.pdf (494.64 KB)

Paper5_Economics_of_PSI.pdf (101.21 KB)

Paper-6-EuropeanPSIPlatform_Report.pdf (131.19 KB)

Minutes:

17.02.10-APPSI-minutes.pdf (279.26 KB)

The Spatialist project and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT would like to invite you to their workshop on legal aspects of geographic data and spatial data infrastructures, taking place in Leuven, Belgium on 19 March.

Further details can be obtained from workshop the Flyer.pdf (202.21 KB)

Members of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information (APPSI) are drawn from many different fields and all have very considereable experience. Nevertheless APPSI is seeking the views of privatesector organisations, public sector organisations, and academia on the strategic options set out in Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey - Consultation, which are summarised in the Executive Summary on pages 10-12 and set out in detail in Sections 6-9. We are doing this to ensure that we obtain the widest possible range of insights on this very important matter.
 
 
Why do we want to hear from you?
 
In particular, APPSI would like to shape its response to the Ordnance Survey consultation by drawing on evidence from organisations that use Ordnance Survey’s products and / or have a interest in the business models that are being proposed in the consultation. This will help APPSI to better understand how the proposed models could impact on Ordnance Survey customers and partners.
 
Please send your comments to…
 
The APPSI Secretariat at the following email address: secretariat@appsi.gsi.gov.uk by Monday 8 February 2010.
 
 

Why attend this event?

Government departments are now recognising the need to improve their collection and handling of management information but many have been found to lack accurate data and the capability to link data across networks. At a time when resources are being reduced, the need for better information management has never been greater for increased operating efficiency, agility and, ultimately, cost savings.

The conference will bring together delegates from across the public sector who are involved in improving the collection, use and re-use of information to improve performance and service delivery.  By attending this event you will:

• Engage directly with senior experts in the field of information management, use and re-use
• Learn from innovative keynotes and take part in interactive panel discussions
• Attend in-depth industry-led workshops demonstrating solutions for the challenges facing you
• Network with peers and share experiences about likely challenges and how to address them

The speaker line up includes:

• Professor David Rhind CBE, Chair, Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information
• John Kirkpatrick, Director of Studies, Audit Commission
• Carol Tullo, Director, Office of Public Sector Information, part of The National Archives
• Neil Ackroyd, Director of Data Collection and Management, Ordnance Survey

Registration

For more information and to register visit www.kable.co.uk/managing-information

Today, the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information is holding its annual seminar at the Ministry of Justice.  APPSI has invited speakers who are key to the re-use of public sector information agenda.

Agenda

10.12.09-Agenda.pdf (58.2 KB)

Presentations

• Jon Kingsbury, NESTA on New-IPR-Framework-for-public-organisations.pdf (211.64 KB)
• Mark Houghton, Environment Agency on Making-money-from-PSI-a-practioner-view.pdf (137.43 KB)
• Glen Watson and Alistair Calder, ONS on 2011-Census-for-England-and-Wales.pdf (2.57 MB)
• Carol Tullo, Director of OPSI at The National Archives and Michael Jennings, APPSI's Local Government Representative on Local-authorities-and-NHS-PSI-re-use.pdf (913.67 KB)
• David Lammey, APPSI's Northern Ireland Representative and Hector MacQueen, APPSI's Scotland Representative on PSI-in-Scotland-and-Northern-Ireland.pdf (86.52 KB)
• Bill Oates on PSI-in-Wales.pdf (57.83 KB)
• Carol Tullo, Director of OPSI at The National Archives, Summary-of-EU-and-UK-PSI-Policy.pdf (2.48 MB)

Minutes

10.12.09-APPSI-Seminar-minutes.pdf (244.17 KB)

The Prime Minister has today outlined plans for improving frontline services while getting better value for money for the taxpayer, during a speech to the Smarter Government conference.

The announcement coincides with the publication of a paper Putting The Frontline First: Smarter Government which includes plans to cut inefficiencies and to use technology to help hospitals, schools and police forces get better value for money.  This paper will form the basis our discussion on ‘New Information Policy Developments’ at the APPSI seminar on Thursday 10 December.

Speaking directly about the information policy agenda, the PM said:

“as a result of the work of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, every citizen will from next year have access to all information on the performance of our public services showing how, and in great detail, hospitals schools and all our public services perform in your own neighbourhood - data put online during 2010 completing the process by 2011, but data there to encourage feedback and dialogue between professional and citizen…

Information is the key. An informed citizen is a powerful citizen.

We will ensure that people can get access to the information they need to engage in dialogue with public service professionals; and in doing so reduce bureaucratic burdens. This will drive improvements in public services, making them more personal and cost-effective, whilst at the same time strengthening democratic deliberation and giving frontline workers and voluntary organisations the freedom to innovate and respond to new demands in new ways.

We are determined to be among the first governments in the world to open up public information in a way that is far more accessible to the general public.

So I am grateful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt for leading a project to ‘make public data public’.

This has enormous potential. Already more than 1,000 active users of the internet have registered their interest in working with government on this, and we have so far made around 1,100 datasets accessible to them.

And there are many hundreds more that can be opened up - not only from central government but also from local councils, the NHS, police and education authorities.

And these must all have the opportunity for feedback and interaction, for that is where power lies for the citizen.

This increased transparency and accountability will enable citizens to compare local services, lobby for improvements, choose providers and demand changes in service delivery - with the web as a powerful new tool for sharing customer experience - in the same way that social networking sites provoke debate and discussion and mobilise opinion. Judgment on public services will no longer be the preserve of anonymous government inspectors.

Already the NHS choices website enables patients to make decisions based on reviews and other ratings.

In education, we are committed to giving all parents of secondary school pupils guaranteed online access to what their child is learning and enabling them to monitor their progress whenever is convenient for them. We will encourage schools to use text messaging to provide up-to-date information on truancy, out of school clubs and unplanned school closures.

Through the new online crime maps which went live last month - allowing for the first time everyone in the country to search by postcode for facts about crime in their area and what is being done about it - we are exploring how people can use police data on late-night incidents to help them choose the safest routes home and to post travel tips and security tip-offs for others.

And through our “tell us once” pilot, citizens no longer have to contact many different central and local government organisations with the same information. We will be rolling out that service nationally for births and deaths in 2010 and we are working with local authorities to pilot a similar tell us once service for change of addresses.

In this way people will no longer be passive recipients of services but, through dialogue and engagement, active participants - shaping, controlling and determining what is best for them.

And I can announce today that we will actively publish all public services performance data online during 2010 completing the process by 2011. Crime data, hospital costs and parts of the national pupil database will go on line in 2010. We will use this data to benchmark the best and the worst and drive better value for money.

It will have a direct effect on how we allocate resources. We will introduce next year NHS tariffs based on best practice on the ground not average price. And we will be benchmarking the whole of the prison and probation system by 2011.

And we will give our frontline services greater freedoms and flexibilities to respond innovatively to this data, reducing the number of ring fenced budgets, rationalising different central funding projects and joining-up capital funding within a local area.

Releasing data can and must unleash the innovation and entrepreneurship at which Britain excels - one of the most powerful forces of change we can harness.

When, for example, figures on London’s most dangerous roads for cyclists were published, an online map detailing where accidents happened was produced almost immediately to help cyclists avoid blackspots and reduce the numbers injured.

And after data on dentists went live, an iphone application was created to show people where the nearest surgery was to their current location.

And from April next year ordnance survey will open up information about administrative boundaries, postcode areas and mid-scale mapping.

All of this will be available for free commercial re-use, enabling people for the first time to take the material and easily turn it into applications, like fix my street or the postcode paper.

And I can further announce today that, again from next April, we will also release public transport data hitherto inaccessible or expensive and release significant underlying data for weather forecasts for free download and re-use.

See the full PM’s speech on Smarter Government and the Smarter Government Paper.  Alongside the Smarter Government paper there are also two adddtional papers which you will need to note:

• Benchmarking the Back Office: Central Government Annex A: Benchmarking data
• Operational Efficiency Programme: Asset Portfolio