Europe’s top digital official, Neelie Kroes, on Thursday flagged that the European Commission is preparing a proposal that could force the 27 member states to open up government data to the public for free. Kroes, Commissioner for Digital Agenda, said that the proposal plans to make it easier to access government data. “By the end of November I will be proposing to my fellow Commissioners that we adopt the next steps on reuse of public sector information and a proposal for an improved directive. I want requirements to be more encompassing and specifications improved in particular we should be looking at the way date is disclosed to formats and the way data licences operate to make reuse straight forward in practice. We shall also be looking at charging regimes because expensive data isn’t open data.”
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