Open Data: What is it, and why are governments doing it?

Open Data: What is it, and

why are governments doing it?

Andrew Stott

UK Transparency Board

formerly Director, data.gov.uk

Senior Consultant, World Bank

Gaborone, Botswana

07 Aug 2013 v0.2

@dirdigeng

andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

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What is Open Data?

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Open data is

data

that can be

freely

used,

reused

and redistributed

by anyone

for any purpose.

Over 260 national, regional and city Open

Government Data initiatives

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Objectives of Open Data

New Economic and Social Value

Improved public services

More Transparent Government

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Objectives of Open Data

New Economic and Social Value

Improved public services

More Transparent Government

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TFL Open Data as a Transport Investment

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~500 Applications

(mobile, web, others)

~5000 people involved

in “app industry”

As a transport project

alone, evaluated by

usual economic criteria:

ROI = 58:1

TFL have stopped

making their own apps

Anonymised medical prescription data

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Used experts in

Health

Data Analytics

Analysed 35m

data records

8 weeks

£200m+/yr

savings

Repeatable

Could scale to

£1.5bn

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estate

agents/

realtors

Financial

services

builders and

other local

services

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Assisting Foreign Inward Investment

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A single business can use the same

information several ways!

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Information services to the public

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Business Intelligence

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Customer attraction and retention

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Economic Value of Open Data

Open Gov Data in EU would increase business

activity by up to €40 Bn/year, with total benefits

up to €140 Bn/year (0.7% of GDP)

Australian study found ROI of ~500% from open

data

Deloitte/POPSIS found open data was reused

10x-100x more than charged-for data

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All economic analysis and case studies

point the same way

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National Information Infrastructure

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Case Study on Denmark’s

Address Data

Thanks to Danish Ministry of Housing, Urban

and Rural Affairs

House fires: should be like this

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House fires: but sometimes like this

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Denmark Address Data Vision

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Postal services

Digital mapping

E-Government

Utilities

Research

Energy, Environment

Health care Local Government

Transport services

Mobile services, GPS Emergency services

Official address

file maintained

by the municipalities

Addr x1

Common base for re-use and application development

x1000

Address data collected & harmonized

1996-2001

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Rural

City

Suburban

Mun StrC AdNo X-coord. Y-coord. Arc. --- ---- ---- -------,-- -------,-- ----- 619 4605 _17A 248.510,45 153.345,08 175,0

2002: Free of Charge Data Agreement

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Covered full public/private

sector re-use of address

data

Available at marginal costs

of distribution

No license fee or similar

charging

Re-distribution permitted

for all commercial and

non-commercial purposes

Assessment in 2010

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Period Benefits Costs Return on

Investment

2004-09

(including

setup)

>€60m ~€2m

22:1

2010

(steady

state)

~€14.0m ~€0.2m 70:1

National Information Infrastructure

Global Positioning System data now has

$122bn/yr benefits to US economy alone

UK National Mapping Agency data supports

£100bn/yr of GDP activity

Open Weather Data in US has created 400

companies employing 4000 people

Open addressing data in Denmark now gives

€14m/yr benefits and 70:1 ROI

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Government can be an Open Data user too

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Objectives of Open Data

New Economic and Social Value

Improved public services

More Transparent Government

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Performance of individual schools

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Irene Choge, data journalist, NTV, Kenya.

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The Health Assignment: Toilets and Grades

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Performance of individual hospitals

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12+ Weeks

MRSA-free

Good C-Diff

record Low

Mortality

2 recent

MRSA

Blood

clots

Patient

ratings

Uganda: Open Data and Community Health

Monitoring

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33% reduction in

under-5 mortality

20% extra utilisation

of out-patient

services

Significant

improvements in:

Immunization

Waiting times

Absenteeism

Performance of local police and courts

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Open Data used to drive Citizen Engagement

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Local team

Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube ….

Local police

Twitter feed

How YOU

can get

involved

It’s very local

Accessible data on crime

Attract Inform Engage Action

Civil Society front-end to public services

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Citizen-sourced data

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#uksnow TN13 4/10

Objectives of Open Data

New Economic and Social Value

Improved public services

More Transparent Government

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Where does my money go?

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Transparent and Accountable Government

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Is My Money Being Spent Well?

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What contracts are being granted to who?

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Links to the

documents

Organisational Transparency

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Where the person

is in the structure

Pay

Responsibilities

Contact details

Do officials turn off their lights at night?

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OpenlyLocal: a dashboard for each City

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International Corporate Transparency

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