Public Sector Information

Public sector information (PSI) is information produced by central and local government or any other public body. The purpose of a PKI is to facilitate the secure electronic transfer of information for a range of network activities such as e-commerce, internet banking and confidential email.

Public sector information (PSI) is information produced by central and local government or any other public body. Any information (content) whatever its medium (form) - including print, digital or electronic, and sound recordings - produced, held or disseminated by a public sector body is considered public sector information. This includes an enormous range: corporate information such as reports and financial data, codes of practices, public records, statistics, still and moving images, press releases, artefacts, publication schemes, and so on.