1. Re-use of Public Sector Information in Eastern Europe ( experiences, best practices, tendencies ) Mr. Jeno Bartalos Director of Scientific Programmes ICST 11. April 2007, Prague

2. Introduction ICST - Institute for Communication Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunication Engineering IVSZ - Hungarian Association of IT Companies

3. SPREAD Stimulate and Promote Good practices in the field of Digital Content In Eastern and Western Europe focusing on Public Sector Information and Linguistic Localisation eContent, 2004-2006, duration:18 month

4. Project Consortium Western Europe: – Germany ( IZET ) – Italy (AidNetwork ) – Belgium ( Teseo, IDP ) – UK ( EMF ) Eastern Europe – Hungary ( IVSZ ) – Poland ( Univ of Wroclaw ) – Slovenia ( SBRA )

5. Activities Trainings 1:1 Mentoring Meetings with experts from Brussels Workshops Best Experiences Virtual ShowCase of Excellence check-out-europe.com

6. Experiences People did not know what is PSI Never heard about the EU directive and this opportunity Did not care Just a few people took part on our events and I did not understand why? Are we doing something wrong? The experiences were the same in Poland and Slovenia

7. Understood The keywords are: – History – Culture – Structure – these information are still not available easily in our countries. WHY? Because …

8. European Business Register...

9. METEO-CONSULT Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

10. INFINITY Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

11. CID INFO Ltd Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

12. DETAPR Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

13. IMAGIS Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

14. J4B Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

15. SYCP Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

16. Bankier Public sector interest … Private sector interest …

17. Summary, Conclusions

18. Thank you for your attention! Jeno Bartalos jeno.bartalos@icst.org