Lees het interview met Neelie Kroes over Inspire.
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[b]Since geoinformation is one of the most desired re-usable information sets, the valuable data that is available through INSPIRE will also be accessible through the new pan-European data portal, says European Commissioner Neelie Kroes in this interview with GIM International. Dissatisfaction within the sector that there is a missing link between the Digital Agenda and geoinformation is not shared by Europe’s most powerful woman on e-issues today. The Digital Agenda will benefit from the experiences with INSPIRE, she says.[/b]
You are very much an advocate of open data. Is there any evidence of open data’s impact so far, beyond increased download volumes?
I am a big supporter of open data which is widely available and accessible, for free and with no restrictions at all associated with its re-use. Our latest available figures suggest that those institutions that have lowered their prices have not only seen demand volumes expand strongly (there have been increases of up to 7,000%), but that sales revenues can remain stable or even increase after drastic price cuts due to the growing demand. Implementing an open data policy has the additional advantage that transaction costs decrease significantly, since not only do administrative costs – such as invoicing – diminish but costs related to monitoring compliance with license arrangements disappear too. In addition, open data improves its quality, since any deficiencies in the data can be promptly flagged and reported back by users. When the interest in data quality is shared, quality control is partly outsourced.
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[b]Biography of Interviewee(s)[/b]
Neelie Kroes has been vice president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda since 2010. She previously held the position of the EU’s Competition Commissioner from 2004 until 2010. Ms. Kroes, born in 1941 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, earned a degree in economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and worked in Dutch politics from 1971 to 1989, including as Minister for the postal and telephone sectors. She subsequently had roles on the executive boards of various companies, predominantly in the transport and logistics sector. In 1991, she became chair of Nyenrode University, Breukelen, The Netherlands.
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