Petition

Full access to information is imperative for consumers to be able to excersise their influence as consumer and for effective markets. Today data related to consumer goods is unavailable to the public, and this is not acceptable.

We demand that the norwegian government upholds their own political platform Soria Moria II , and immediately takes measures to strengthen the consumers position:

We demand that relevant data¹

associated with goods and services in Norway²

be made publicly available³.

1) "Relevant data" means any data that may be used to strengthen a consumers effective purchasing power. This may be price, content declaration, value chain etc.

2) "Goods and services in Norway" means any product or service that may be uniquely identified. This may be anything from groceries and consumer electronics, to restaurants and plumbers.

3) "Publicly available" means without legal restrictions on use (freely licenced), structured (standardised format, linkable), and without unneccessary barriers for access. There must be a documented and open API with the ability for bulk transfers.

 

The following organizations have signed the petition: