Marc Leobet
Mission Geographic Information Commissioner
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
France

Biography
Since 2008, Marc Leobet is in charge of INSPIRE directive at the Spatial Data Office of the Ministry in charge of environment. Head of the French delegation to the European INSPIRE Committee, he is chairman of the " Implementing Rules" Committee of the National Council for Geographic Information. Previously, he worked on pollution and risks in the same Ministry, including the dissemination of free public information on the internet and the urbanization of environmental information systems. Cartographer and analyst, he was trained to IGN-FR where he was land surveyor and responsible for production of maps by millions among other things.

Abstract
Open Data and Public Services to Everybody, without Naivety

The transparency we launched in 1998 aimed to inform inhabitants for a better protection of their life, their health and their environment. It has successfully collided with the habits in our administration to see too often the citizen as a burden. Today, the French policy for Open data gives the framework : free data on the web for transparency and innovation. INSPIRE directive's tools bring some solutions to open data issues: standardisation for data and for services, elements for data quality, semantic interoperability. Furthermore, the spatial information sector is rich of women and men with a great knowledge about data management, who are often called to publish structured open data. We reach now a higher level in more effective public services, with the help, in some places, of crowdsourcing. It is just the beginning of something greater. But we have to take care to side effects: under budget cuts, we have to explain to our governments what is our added value and where are our customers. In an opened field to global societies, our countries need to protect some sectors (environment, land management, defense) where the State's neutrality is the warranter of the common goods.