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After the experience acquired in
collaboration with Open Knowledge
Foundation (http://okfn.org) at Open Data
Challenge (http://opendatachallenge.
org/), the most important competition on
open data in Europe, the idea of LAPSI
was to propose a contest for building the
best portal on public data. So, during
the 2nd LAPSI public conference “A
First Discussion after the Proposal for
a Revision” taken place in Brussells
on 23rd and 24th January 2012 (The
presentations from the speakers of LAPSI
2nd Public Conference are available at:
http://lapsi-project.eu/meeting23jan#2),
it was given the award to the most
user-friendly design of a public sector
information portal in the European Union
(The prize went to the Spanish portal
datos.gob.es http://datos.gob.es/).
The thematic network LAPSI combines
international meetings with an advanced
use of the tools offered by the Internet.
In addition to the web site http://lapsiproject.eu/,
in which are published news
related to public sector information and
initiatives directly concern the thematic
network, there are two public mailing
lists (http://www.lapsi-project.eu/
listinfo): a list for a general discussion
about the Legal Aspects of Public Sector
Information and a one-way list for
announcements related to the LAPSI
project. In order to provide further
material for those wishing to explore the
theme of PSI, on the website are available
a glossary of PSI-related terminology
(http://lapsi-project.eu/lapsi les/
lapsi_glossary.pdf), a bibliography
(http://www.lapsi-project.eu/biblio), a
collection of documents and norms on
the PSI (http://www.lapsi-project.eu/
norms) and a selection of remarkable
PSI decisions rendered by various EU
Member States’ Domestic Courts (http://
www.lapsi-project.eu/decisions).
The updated version of all the LAPSI
Policy Recommendations are available
on the wiki page at http://www.lapsiproject.eu/wiki/index.php/LAPSI_Policy_
recommendations. LAPSI also oversees
the most important social networks like
Twitter (https://twitter.com/lapsi_project),
Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/gr
oups?home=&gid=4266110&trk=an
et_ug_hm) and Facebook (https://www.
facebook.com/lapsiproject). In order to
be involved in LAPSI project there is
a stakeholders online registration form
available on the LAPSI website (http://
www.lapsi-project.eu/stakeholders-form).
All the production of the LAPSI Thematic
Network will be presented at the nal
conference of the 9th and 10th of July in
Turin (More information are available
at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/ nal).
Intermediate drafts were discussed during
the seminars and conferences organized
so far. The two-days meeting is jointly
organized with the EVPSI research project
Final Meeting (http://www.evpsi.org/).
Clearly lots of work still needs to be done
in the eld of PSI. Many legal aspects
remain unclear and lots of doubts are there
as to the technical issues, with particular
reference to interoperability. This is why
the EC launched another call, so that once
the LAPSI project ends, in September
2012, a LAPSI 2.0 Thematic Network
can take the passing of the torch.