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French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Re: French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Post by rhl »

At the last G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland this past June, the Chiefs of State had agreed on an Open Data Charter committing their respective governments to make efforts to bring more open data online in machine-readable formats.

Today France releases its action plan for the implementation of the Charter, and specifically commits to releasing more governement datasets and APIs for hackers and startups to experiment with.

Specifically, we're committing to:

- progressing towards publishing data openly by default,

- building an open platform to encourage innovation and transparency,

- developing Open Data policy in consultation with citizensand civil society,

- supporting open innovation in France and throughout the world.

I'd be very interested in HN's feedback on how useful this can be for you, and what else you'd like to know about our Open Data policy and how we're trying to improve it!

Re: French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Post by wrongc0ntinent »

rhl wrote: post #2

At the last G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland this past June, the Chiefs of State had agreed on an Open Data Charter committing their respective governments to make efforts to bring more open data online in machine-readable formats. Today France releases its action plan for the implementation of the Charter, and specifically commits to releasing more governement datasets and APIs for hackers and startups to e…

Could you point to the source of the "hackers and startups" quote? Didn't find it in the main article. (Edit: sorry if this is on a tangent) (Edit 2: well, I didn't think it was a downvote-worthy tangent, considering the word's connotations debate and this being an official govt url)

Re: French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Post by aktiur »

samolang wrote: post #3

That's great, but with tax rates of 75-100% for the rich I have a hard time believing they'll attract a lot of serious entrepreneurs.

Here's what three researchers actually found regarding real tax rates in France two years ago :

http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/img/g1-1.pdf

If you cannot understand French : on the horizontal axis you got the income percentile, and the real tax rate on the vertical axis. The real tax rates may seem high, but they are pretty average for Europe.

The nominal tax rate is not enough to gauge the real tax pressure. The French system is well known for having many "tax niches" (as we call the tax loopholes)

The three researchers are Camille Landais (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), Thomas Piketty (Paris school of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (Berkeley).

Edited to correct : wealth percentage --> income percentile

Re: French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Post by vmarsy »

samolang wrote: post #3

That's great, but with tax rates of 75-100% for the rich I have a hard time believing they'll attract a lot of serious entrepreneurs.

I'm not sure there's a lot of entrepreneurs starting with an income greater than a million € though!

Re: French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

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Post by marianoguerra »

weddpros wrote: post #5

That's pure bs: www.data.gouv.fr is full of XLS and DOC documents. No raw data, only aggregated statistics. Useless. Documents and data are not the same... I'm french, and NOT proud of it

it's an action plan, that means that they are starting to work on it, not that it's already like that.
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