COLLECTION AND REUSE OF DATA BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES

Abstract

The Act on open data and the reuse of public sector information contains regulations for open data and principles and procedures for making available and providing public sector information for the purpose of reusing them. This act of law is consequential for entrepreneurs and businesses in terms of the creation of products and services based on artificial intelligence where various types of data are used, among others. The Act on open data and the reuse of public sector information significantly affects the collection and reuse of data by local government authorities. The reuse of data by local government authorities can take many forms. One of them is services related to applications based on the data or various legal information systems, maps, dictionaries, or calculators. The article analyses regulations in Polish legislation regarding the collection and reuse of data, particularly by local government authorities.