French Post Office using its data to offer additional services
Last week Le Monde Informatique reported that La Poste, the French Post Office, has just initiated its DataPoste programme. New services based on La Poste’s open data should see the light of day between now and the end of the first quarter of 2014.
La Poste has announced the launch of DataPoste, its open data and open innovation programme. The objective for La Post is to open up a certain number of datasets in a very short time to enable the emergence of new services designed and implemented by third parties. The target is to have the first services based on these open data available within three months.
The first stage took place on 4th December. Named DataHorizon, a private meeting of representatives from various departments of La Poste sought to define what value could be derived from such data. This entailed plotting the broad strategic outlines for opening up and adding value to the group’s data.
A second meeting will be held on 8th January. This time the group’s employees will getting together with technology start-ups, commercial partners, designers and developers. Using customer needs as a starting point, La Poste will participate in defining use scenarios, timetables for releasing data and the stages of the plan of action. Finally, the prototypes of services to meet the requirements identified in the previous stage will be developed within the scope of a “collaborative sprint” in February 2014.
