Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-310"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Information Society eEUROPE 20052
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030211.12.2-310"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-11-Speech-2-3112
lpv:speaker	lp:Christian Rovsing2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Det Konservative Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I think this is an exciting debate, and I think our rapporteurs have done a quite outstanding piece of work that has also been duly recognised. I have a couple of remarks relating to the use and re-use of public information. Some countries have made much more progress than others in this respect, and this clearly reflects a difference that also finds expression in, for example, the transparency with which countries operate. One example that might be mentioned is the significant interest shown in Denmark in a certain mayor’s restaurant and travel bills. Since everyone in Denmark has access to such documents, simply by asking to see them, there were too many people who asked to see them. The documents were therefore posted on the Internet so that any citizen could see each and every original document there. In the case of the commissioners or their colleagues, I do not believe we have access to the particulars of their work and travel or of the items they use. In Denmark, however, we do have access to this kind of information relating to such people and, in this connection, the Internet is used, and it is made available free of charge. A long list of ‘services’ use the same data again and again, and this is made available to people, who can in that way update it themselves and, for example, automatically change their tax payments and such like. Why is this kind of data made available free of charge, and why is such use of the Internet encouraged? For two reasons. Firstly, the more that people do for themselves, the faster the responses they receive and the fewer civil servants we have to employ. Secondly, society has a huge interest in this data’s being used and re-used, for we cannot count upon having a sufficient number of civil servants in the future to carry out these tasks. Data can be made available free of charge, moreover, because the public savings are as substantial as they are."@en1

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