Open Data Opportunities in the Development Sector - Marijn Rijken - TNO

12 May 2011Open Data Development Camp

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Open Data Opportunities in the Development [email protected] & [email protected] at ODDC12 May 2011


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TNO connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the

sustainable competitiveness of industry and well-being of society.


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TNO is active in..

Open Data

Policy Research

Web science

Open Data Architecture

Innovation for Development

Sustainable Energy & Climate

ICT

Food & Agro

Health


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Agenda

Learn

Get Inspired

Act

International comparison of open data strategies(contact [email protected] for more info)

Open Data Opportunities in the Development Sector

Identify your own opportunities and develop a first strategic approach


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Open data momentum in the Netherlands

10 May 2011Tijs van den Broek

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Many agencies, however, seem to hesitate...

Ministry of interior asked TNO to study open data policies in six countries:

US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Spain and Estonia (not enough evidence).

Research questions:

Strategy: what open data strategies are in place?

Implementation: what instruments are in place to implement these

strategies?

Drivers and barriers: what drives or hampers the implementation of

open data policies?

Effects: what are the effects of open data policies?

Advice: what can the Dutch government learn from these international

experiences?


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Open data strategies

Public services and democracy are the most important goals


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Open data strategy: democracy

The transparency of Open Data helps a society to build a democracy and

execute their rights

“…We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiviness in Government”


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Open data implementation

Policy instruments focused on:

External change, e.g. stimulating Re-use of PSI

Internal change, e.g. preparing governments to open up

Countries showed a broad mix of policy instruments:

Education & training: guidelines, awards, knowledge exchange

Voluntary approaches: policy programmes, publication schedules,

Economic instruments: hackdays, App contests, financing open data

portals

Legislation and control: PSI law, FoI law, standards, monitoring


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Open data drivers & barriers# Top 10 drivers Top 10 barriers 1 Strategies and experiences in front runner

countries Closed government culture

2 Political leadership

Privacy legislation

3 Regional initiatives

Limited quality of data

4 Citizen initiatives Limited user-friendliness/info overload

5 Market initiatives. Lack of standardisation of open data policy.

6 Emerging technologies. Security threats.

7 European legislation. Existing charging models.

8 Thought leaders Uncertain economic impact.

9 Possibility of monitoring government Digital divide.

10 Budgets cuts. Network overload.


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Open data effects

Economic, Efficient/Effective government, Democratic, Social

Little empirical evidence! Too early?

Evidence needed on micro level (i.e. case study) to determine effects

Sharing

Policy

Practice

ImpactmeasurementSignificant progress

Progress

Some key shortcomings


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Agenda

Learn

Get Inspired

Act

International comparison of open data strategies




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Open Data to address challenges in the development sector

Current challenges in development sector:cooperation including public-private partnerships

harmonisation of programmes in the field

participation & ownership in the South

public support & transparency (public concerns on efficiency of spending,

and effectiveness of programs),

financing programs

Open Data can help to address these challenges!


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Examples in the Development Sector


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Agenda

Learn

Get Inspired

Act

International comparison of open data strategies




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Indentify your own top 3 drivers and barriers

Define your most promising opportunity for your own context

To take home: consider the following steps in your approach1. analyse: how open are you?2. define your objective (do you really want it?)3. form a multi-disciplinary team and consider partners4. start in a vertical or horizontal


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Drivers and Barriers mentioned by workshop participants (incomplete list)

Drivers

Show donors impact of work

Creative re-use of data by others

Political will at ministry of Foreign

Affairs

Transparency

Response and participation

Currently there is lot’s of

momentum and will around open

data in society.

Barriers

Large size of the organizations

involved

Awareness on benefits of open

data at leaders and employees

Privacy concerns and regulations

Security issues

We are not really open yet

Cost

Required technical know how

Fear of too low data quality or

outdated data.


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Opportunities of open data identified by workshop participants (incomplete list)

To create awareness on environmental impact and charge the polluter

Open data from Ugandan government to boost local entrepreneurship and

increase government transparency and accountability

Improve budgetary processes in developing countries and increase

transparency towards donors

Harmonization of fragmented interventions in the field (e.g. 600 NGO’s active

in Kibera slum in Nairobi)

Documents

Open Data Opportunities in the Development Sector - Marijn Rijken - TNO