Opening Public Registers' Data

With Prof. Olivier Glassey, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP)

Abstract:

A population register is an inventory of residents within a country, with their characteristics (date of birth, sex, marital status, etc.) and other socio-economic data, such as occupation or education. However data on population is also stored in numerous other public registers such as tax, land, building and housing, military, foreigners, vehicles, etc. Altogether they contain vast amounts of personal and sensitive information. Access to public information is granted by law in many countries, but this transparency is generally subject to tensions with data protection laws. I will discuss these tensions between privacy and transparency issues from a European perspective. In order to address these issues I will propose a model for data, identity and privacy management.

Short Bio:

Olivier Glassey is assistant professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) where he is in charge of the research and teaching unit "Digital Governance". Within the Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN), Olivier Glassey teaches public management, quantitative research methods, and management of information systems. His current research topics are public registers' harmonization and data governance of population registers, identity and privacy management, open access and transparency, and more generally eGovernement and eParticipation.

Date: Monday March 5th, 2012, 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Battelle bât A, auditorium ground floor

2 mars 2012

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