New publication ‘Creating public sector value through the use of
open data’
The recent publication from data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en], titled ‘Creating public sector value
through the use of open data
[https://data.europa.eu/en/doc/creating-public-sector-value-through-use-open-data]’
aims to address the question of ‘how to foster open data value
creation in the public sector?’. This is the final paper in a series
on public institutions as reusers of open data. It reflects upon the
results of a 1-year campaign regarding data reuse practices,
highlighting the persistent barriers and providing recommendations on
overcoming them.

The campaign was initiated based on insights provided in the paper
 ‘Measuring Data Demand Within the Public Sector’
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/report/Discussion_Paper_Measuring_Data_Demand_Within_the_Public_Sector.pdf],
resulting in a series of community engagement activities on
data.europa.eu. As part of this campaign, several blog posts
[https://data.europa.eu/en/publications/datastories] were published on
data.europa.eu, a data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy] webinar on ‘Data Demand and
Re-use in the Public Sector
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTd7Ti0aQNA&list=PLT5rARDev_rknM6hDfssgSCS6aUxE70eF&index=7]’
was held and a focus group on how data is reused within the public
sector was conducted. The analysis of these insights identified four
important areas for improvement and put forth recommendations on how
data.europa.eu can facilitate data reuse by public institutions across
Europe.

The recommendations vary from how to raise awareness and improve
communication with the use of examples to how policy and regulation
activities need to align to better explore internal data needs. The
paper
[https://data.europa.eu/en/doc/creating-public-sector-value-through-use-open-data]
also covers how data reuse by the public sector should be part of
monitoring activities such as surveys and how pivotal is the role of
data stewards in promoting data reuse.

Interested in learning more? Read the publication
[https://data.europa.eu/en/doc/creating-public-sector-value-through-use-open-data]
to explore all  the detailed analysis and improvement suggestions..

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Publication Date/Time
2023-09-04T08:00:32+00:00
Discover the best techniques and insights on how to improve reuse of
open data in the public sector