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S1.3 Open data development of countries: Global status and trends*
Esmeralda Florez Ramos (Technical University Berlin & Fraunhofer Institute for Open
Communication Systems (FOKUS), Germany)

Open data plays a key role for governments strategy to deal with challenges of the future. It
has the potential to improve public sector´s transparency, engagement of civil society, and
economic growth. This paper contributes to answering the questions: Can open data have an
impact on innovation? Under which condition is this the case? Which data can be used to assess
the progress on a country level? Which countries are successful with open data? How
successful are the government actions to support economic development through open data?
The exploratory analysis investigates the relationship between open data readiness and
measures on impact, and on changes in open data development level and the influence of the
country´s level of ICT development, transparency and freedom. This paper also takes a specific
look at economic impact scores and their correlation with government initiatives for training
and innovation on open data. It was found that success on open data at the country level is
based on good levels of ICT development, freedom and in the interest of becoming more
transparent. There are indications that countries with low ICT development do not profit from
open data, but the evidence is limited, due to the small number of countries observed. There is
a strong correlation between support for entrepreneurship & business readiness and economic
impact. However, the relationship between the development of these indicators during the time
of the study and the measured impact is unclear.

Session 2: Envisioning future standards development
S2.1 A holistic approach to exploring the divided standards landscape in e-health research*
Doyoung Eom and Heejin Lee (Yonsei University, Rep. of Korea)

Based on the importance of standards in providing safe, interoperable, and quality healthcare, a
growing body of literature explores e-Health services and systems in combination with standards
and standardization. Yet a holistic approach to assess the state of academic research that involves
standards and e-Health across diverse disciplines has not been taken up to date. To understand the
dynamics of e-Health standards, particularly on the role and effect of those standards, this paper
systematically reviews the standards landscape in e-Health research. We found three key themes:
first, standards for e-Health in developed and developing countries; second, types of standards and
their effects on interoperability, quality and security; third, implementation of standards in terms
of adoption by healthcare organizations and application in the process of e-Health framework
developments. This paper makes academic contributions by extracting common themes across
disciplines and intends to provide practical implications for facilitating e-Health interventions
while taking the benefits and challenges associated with standards into consideration.
Intellectual property licensing tensions in incorporating open source into formal standard setting
S2.2 context – The case of Apache V.2 in ETSI as a start

Jingze Li (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Open Source Software is playing an increasing role in ICT standardizations on future technologies
such as 5G and Internet of Things. Formal standard settings organizations (SSOs) are exploring ways
to incorporate open source approach. This paper depicts the difference between open source licenses
and the current SSOs legal framework in dealing with intellectual property rights, mainly the
FRAND license commitment for patented technologies and the distribution for copyrighted software

in specifications. Such difference might cause tensions in the two scenarios of interactions between
SSO standards and open source: the implementation phase and the standardization activity phase.
Some of the tensions are currently hypothetical. However, one recent and concrete example from
ETSI, hosting an open source project under Apache v.2, might shed light on how SSOs can (cannot)
avoid tensions by making changes to the governing framework.

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