From Access to Re-use

From Access to Re-use: A user's perspective on public sector availability

Welle Donker, F.M. (TU Delft OLD Geo-information and Land Development)

Korthals Altes, W.K. (promotor)
van Loenen, B. (copromotor)

Delft University of Technology

2016-12-06

Availability of public sector (geo-)information is essential for effective and efficient government policy-making. In addition, it is also associated with realising other ambitions, such as a more transparent and accountable government, more citizens’ participation in democratic processes, (co-)generation of solutions to societal problems, and to increase economic value due to companies creating innovative and value-added products and services with public sector (geo-)information as a resource. Especially the latter ambition has been the subject of many publications stressing the enormous potential economic value of re-use of public sector (geo-)information by companies. Previous research indicated that re-users of public sector information encountered barriers related to technical, organisational, legal and financial aspects. These barriers were considered to be the main reason why in Europe, the economic value due to value added products appeared to be lagging. Especially restrictive licence conditions and high licence fees were often cited to be the main barriers for re-users in Europe compared to re-users in the United States. Fortunately, more public sector information becomes available as open data and a trickle of products and services based on public sector information can be witnessed. However, the predicted tsunami of value-added products and services has not quite eventuated yet. This dissertation aims to assess which barriers re-users of public sector information still face after the introduction of open data, and what can be done to alleviate these barriers to lift the maturity of open data to a higher level.

public sector information
Accessibility
Open Data
re-use of PSI
open data business models
open data maturity

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:56e48c89-6d06-4ae3-8033-2e913ee09bee

https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2016.21

A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment

978-94-92516-27-5

A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment No 21 (2016)

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doctoral thesis

© 2016 F.M. Welle Donker