Building a pan-European platform to aggregate public procurement data and deliver commercial services for SMEs

powered by open data

Jose L. Marín de la Iglesiahttp://twitter.com/jluismarin

Digital Agenda AssemblyBrussels, 16 June 2011

Powered by opendata

Open data is also for businessTransparency

Helps citizens to make better decisions

Create added-value information products & services

Delivered by companies powered by open data like

with

10ders IS: Aggregating public contracts

and builds a Pan­European platform by aggregating public contracts in the EU

Deliver innovative and cost­effective products & services for SMEs, to help them to increase 

competitiveness in EU public markets

UsersAssociationsAuthoritiesSMEsAgencies

Journals and Official GazettesProcurement PlatformsBuyer profiles

2155 B Euros (17% EU GDP)

is a private held company that provides

value added information services related to pan-EU matters

Adding value to public procurement data

UsersAssociationsPubic AuthoritiesSMEsAgencies

gathers, understands, indexes, enriches

searches, filters, mashes-up

ADDS VALUERe-packages, Distributes, Publishes

GTWCLOUD

OfficialSources

WEBSERVICES

API: opXML

WIDGETS PRODUCTREPORTS

WINNERLISTS ALERTSSPARQL

ENDPOINT

PermanentMachine-readableTimelyPrimaryLicensed, reviewable

The Idea is simple, the challenge is huge

No unified data structures Storing big data Multiple languages Fragmentation in thousands of

sources

Technical Legal

Cultural

Licensing Business model(s) Inexpensive

Conflict Resolution

Open data awareness among Authorities

Unlocking the databut OUR real challenge is

in machine readable formats

Business model(s) and products Subsidized

Subscription

Advertising

Transformation

Certification

Traffic generation

Differentiation

Apps Sale

Clients in 15 countries

Automatic Publication: Widgets & WS

Alerts with contract opportunities

Data mining for Market intelligence: product reports, winner lists, trends,...

Private branded systems ... and more

many possible business models

Delivered to

Euroalert approach to unlocking data

Formal request addressed to data holder

Sometimes presentation of the objectives

License agreement signature

and sometimes complaint placement :(

Data re-use of new source within 10ders IS

Upgrade of current products

What does Euroalert suggest to data holders?What does Euroalert suggest to data holders?

No need to invest much at first Any data structure is ok if it's slightly documented Update timely according to reliable criteria License for commercial exploitation Automatic download (URIs, API, WS, even email attach)

Release whatever format is convenient Machine readable – RAW DATA – Any format is OK

PDF or HTML is NOT enough

Re-users will invest if there's value

Machine-readable data is OKlater on you can improve (and earn stars)

Takeaways from Euroalert experienceTakeaways from Euroalert experience RAW Data is enough

Not enough useful open data released

Conflict resolution - ShowMeTheTenders.net

Still experimenting with business model(s)

Standardization should play a role

Spend wisely – re-users will invest

Big space for innovation & value creation

ROI will be awesome!

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June 2011

Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia

http://twitter.com/jluismarin

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