Debrief of the workshop "Let's strengthen our open data offer to become a European trend-setter"
Although municipalities, regions and federal government already have embedded the re-use of public sector information (PSI) in their strategy, the annual studies that assess the level of open data maturity in the EU Member States rank Belgium at the 17th place (http://bit.ly/ODM_19). The aim of the co-creation workshop is to gain insights into the development in the field of open data and to come up with bright and interesting ideas to improve this ranking and become a European trendsetter.
Raf is involved in strategic e-Government projects for local and regional governments since 2002. As an advisor in e-government strategy at Informatie Vlaanderen, Raf tries to implement a more rational, interoperable e-government, promoting open data, open standards and open processes. Raf is also a board member of Open Knowledge Belgium. He’s active in the Open Data community, as a policy advisor.
Informatie Vlaanderen
Marc is an IT business analyst within the FPS BOSA where he plays an active role in data standardization efforts at both federal and interfederal level.
FOD BOSA DG Digital Transformation
As Digital Transition Advisor at the Ministry of the French-speaking Community, Thierry is in charge of data and works towards greater transparency in terms of information. He collaborates with the Agence du Numérique de la Région Wallonne on the publication of open data.
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Mahias is a policy advisor at Informatie Vlaanderen and responsible for the Flemish Open Data Portal.
Informatie Vlaanderen
Mathias Van Compernolle is a board member of Open Knowledge Belgium and an Open Data researcher at imec-mict-UGent.
imec-mict-UGent
Eveline Vlassenroot is a researcher at imec-mict-UGent where she is involved in projects related to e-government and web archiving.
imec-mict-UGent
