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The concurrence of various developments makes access to, as well as ownership, use and commercialisation of information held by the public sector a challenge for public policy, particularly in Europe. Underlying are trends and issues at different levels: technical (digitisation, Internet), political (EU policies, democratic deficit), social (digital divide, access to services), and economic (expanding information economy, European information industry). The paper points out some key issues of public sector information policy, illustrates these with empirical evidence and outlines policy initiatives at EU level. One conclusion is that up to now the emphasis has been on the commercial rather than citizen rights aspects of public sector information and that a balance of policy priorities has yet to be found.
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Aichholzer, G. (2004). Electronic Access to Public Sector Information: Some Key Issues. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_91
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