Evento
For the tenth consecutive year, Asedie organizes a new edition of the "International Conference on the Reuse of Public Sector Information". The appointment will take place on October 23 at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection in Madrid.
As the previous years, the main objective is to serve as a platform to share knowledge and experiences, coming together all those involved in the Information and Data Community, as well as to promote public-private collaboration for public interest.
Under the motto, "Information, an essential resource for economic development", experts will address the importance of Infomediary sector and the evolution of information access and reuse.
Agenda
The event will begin at 9:45, with a few words from the Asedie President, D. Dionisio Torre. Then, Mr. Carlos Romero, Counsellor of Industry, Telecommunications and Audiovisual, Mr. Jesús Rubí, Deputy to the Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, and Barbara Ulbaldi, Head of OECD Digital Government and Open Data Policies Team, will share their vision on the challenges and opportunities of the infomediary sector, paying special attention to sector regulations.
After the coffee break, a round table entitled "The implementation of Reuse and its evolution in the last 10 years" will take place. Mrs. Cristina Morales, General Deputy Director of Information Society Content from the Ministry of Economy and Business, Jorge Salazar, Coordinator of the Commercial Registry from the Registrar College, Mr. Pedro Vivas, Head of the IDE / SIG Support Area of the Ministry of Development, and Mr. Enrique Crespo, Chief of the Information Access Service of the city of Madrid.
The event will conclude with the presentation of the Asedie Award. Since 5 years, Asedie present this award with the aim of highlighting the work of those people, companies or institutions that have done the best work or the greatest contribution to innovation and development of the Infomediary Sector.
Inscription
Admission is free, but places are limited. Therefore, those interested in attending the conference must register before October 18 through this online form.
Evento
The deadline to register for the ninth International Conference on the Reuse of Public Sector Information organized by ASEDIE is now open. The event will take place on November 30 at the headquarters of the National Geographic Institute, in Madrid.
During the first part of the day there will be a round table, under the title "Trust, the basis of legal and economic security", moderated by the president of the Association, Dionisio Torre. This panel will have the participation of Cristina Morales, Deputy Director General of Digital Content of the Information Society, who will speak about the PSI evolution in Spain and the upcoming regulatory changes. A representative of the Ministry of Justice will invite attendees with his presentation to reflect on the legal confidence that Spanish companies give in commercial transactions. Finally, Carlos Romero, permanent representative of Spain in the European Union and Minister of Industry, Telecommunications and Visual will be present, sharing three files related to the areas of ePrivacy, Freeflow of Data and reuse of information.
After the break, three talks are scheduled to be given, firstly, by the representative of the Data Protection Agency, Jesús Rubí, on the European regulation, the recently approved bill and codes of conduct for the sector. Subsequently, the Director of the National Geographic Information Center, Emilio López, will present the new data policy of the IGN and, finally, the General Director of State Heritage - ASEDIE Award in 2016 - Juan Antonio Martínez Menéndez, will explain the evolution of the hiring platform.
As a finishing touch to the conference, the ASEDIE Prize 2017 will be awarded, which awards, in its fourth edition, those national initiatives that promote the reuse of public sector information in Spain. Attendance at the event is free and the registration period is open until November 23.
Noticia
ASEDIE (Multisectoral Information Association) has published its report in which components, market behavior and characteristics of infomediary sector in Spain are analysed. To carry out this study, the entity has identified and analyzed 602 infomediary companies (21 companies less than in the previous edition) -firms that re-use public/private sector information to develop products or services for the whole society- classified into nine segments: culture; directory services; economic and financial; publishing; market studies; geographic information; weather; tourism and others.
Located mostly in the Community of Madrid and Catalonia, 50% of the evaluated companies belong to the market research area, as previous years, followed by financial entities with a 14 per cent and cultural institutions with a 10 per cent. The less representative sector is the meteorological industry, which covers only 1% of the total.
Analyzing the origin of the type of information, 90% of the infomediary companies operate with private information (42% only "private" and 48% "public and private"), and 58% of them use public information (10% only "public" and 48% "public and private").
Total revenues associated with the infomediary companies in 2014 were close to 1,400 million euros compared to 1,000 million in 2013. This figure allows to assign average revenue of 2.27 million euros per company; concentrated in four groups: market research, economic and financial, geographic information and publishing. In addition, the number of employees in this sector during that year exceeded 15,000 workers, decreasing 3.2% from the previous report.
Nevertheless, a sign of the remarkable evolution of national infomediary sector is the 6.6% growth in sales in comparison to the previous year, a positive evolution if we take into account that the turnover for 2013 had dropped 2% in sales.
Moreover, the assessment methodology of this last reports has been slightly modified, adding three new types of analysis: two of them based on the evolution of the companies included in previous reports and the third divides the companies into five sections according to their commercial risk exposure and their probability of default. In this regard, 77% of the infomediary companies are included in the group of low-moderate risk, 19.6% of them are included in the high-maximum level and, finally, 3.5% of the companies are defaulting.
Thanks to the study and its evolutionary analysis of the last four years, ASEDIE report shows us that information is an important and essential resource for socio-economic growth in Spain; allowing the assessment of impact, relevance, qualities and influence of the sector at national level and the comparison with other geographical areas.