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Open democracy with open dataIrina Bolychevsky

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We are a global network using advocacy and technology to open up knowledge and see it used

to empower citizens and organizations to drive positive change

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Working groups

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Building an open, inclusive, fair, democratic government with open data

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1: Open by default

What does this mean?

Why does it matter?

Example?

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opendefinition.org

A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.

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Reusability process

Step 1: get the data openly licensed

Step 2: make it accessible - metadata, formats, machine readability, portal (ckan.org)

Step 3: start building, linking and turning data into something more - information

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Obama: open and machine readable

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2. Licencing

Clear, standard default licences are important

Legal guarantee for reuse

http://br.okfn.org/2013/08/28/dados-meio-abertos-sobre-o-uso-e-reuso-dos-dados-governamentais-brasileiros/

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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/

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3: Publish unpublished datasets

Registry of what exists

● participation● see what people want● building in transparent

process

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data.gov.uk case study

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4: Engagement

Data Journalism

Civil Society

Ask for help

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DataJournalismHandbook.org

● Free online - with Spanish, Russian and French versions

● What is Data Journalism? Why is it Important?

● Numerous case studies: BBC, Guardian Datablog, Zeit Online..

● How to get, transform, understand & visualise / deliver data

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index.okfn.org

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http://project-open-data.github.io/

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http://data.gov.uk/odug

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5: Open Data Portal

Central registry

Local / regional

Federation

New extensions

Engagement

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CKAN - open source data publishing

1. search and discoverability for re-users of data

2. data management tools for publishers

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Online home for data

Central keyword searchFacet by tags, location, format, licence, publishing departmentBrowse by groups, keywords, publishersStandardized interface for viewingLink to datasets or data directlyPreviews and data exploration where possible

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Data Management for Publishers

Easily store and update metadata records

Workflow and approval

Fine grained authorization controls

Broken link reports

Download and view counts

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Add and edit dataset metadata

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Authorisation & access control

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Stats & analyticsCKAN comes with inbuilt stats + integration with Google AnalyticsIncludes dataset counts, download counts + reports

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Link checker and 5 star ratings

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Sophisticated geospatial capabilities

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Geo-Search: Filter by location / draw bounding boxWMS previewsPlotting GeoJSON / Longitude & Latitude in tabular data

Support for: ● INSPIRE● GEMINI 2.1 ● CSW● ISO 19139

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Harvesting and normalization

Get metadata from external catalogs and endpoints

CKAN will parse, validate and normalise to create metadata records that look the same to end users no matter where they came from

We can currently harvest: other CKAN catalogs, CSW endpoints and WAFs serving ISO 19139 documents

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Federation

Search across catalogs in aggregator sites (such as publicdata.eu)

Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol: http://spec.datacatalogs.org/

fork this dataset if you want to improve it

anyone can publish

official accounts are promoted

promote your reuse cases

vote and raise the dataset search ranking

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ckan.org/instances/

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6: Three step plan for reusable data

1. Use the data you publish

2. Publish the schema

3. Standardise

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7: Spending & procurement

Where does my money go?

Open Spending

Procurement

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8: Company register

Identity list

Tax evasion

Numerous sub-owned companies

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OpenCorporates.com

http://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/index.html

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9: Open Data vs My Data

Personal data is not open data

It can become open data if transformed or released by individuals

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/22/open-data-my-data/

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10: Privacy & tackling surveillance

Open internet

● open source● open protocols

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Evidence

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Finnish geo data study

SME's grow 15% more w/ free geo data as opposed to paid data. Effect visible after 1yr, stronger after 2yrs.

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/finnish-study-psi-pricing-geo-data

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EU Commission ResearchOpen Gov Data in EU would increase business activity of €40bn

Indirect benefits (people who use those services) up to €140bn per year (0.7% of GDP)Source Details (Vickery study)

Deloitte Study: 10x-100x increase in usage from opening up data (7 case studies) - not about the price as much as reduction in transaction costsSource Details

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Spanish Study

+5000 jobs from PSI re-use

Details and Source (2011)Details and Source (2012)

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Addressing Data in Denmark

Releasing as Open Data in Denmark in 2002 gave E62m benefits 2005-2009 against E2M cost 2002-2009, ROI in 2010: E14M benefit against .2M cost.

http://www.adresse-info.dk/Portals/2/Benefit/Value_Assessment_Danish_Address_Data_UK_2010-07-07b.pdf

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/value-danish-address-data

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Bus Stops in the UK

UK released data on location of 300,000 bus-stops; Community (Open Street Map) corrected 18,000 of them, improving official data accuracy

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Canadian Tax Status Misuse

Open Data exposed CAN$3.2bn misuse of charitable status in tax code in Canada

http://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-open-data-and-the-public-purse/

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UK: Reduced Mortality for Heart Surgery

In 2004, the UK heart surgeon Sir Bruce Keogh persuaded his colleagues (there are 240 heart surgeons in the English NHS) to publish comparable data on their individual clinical outcomes – a global first. 7 years later, dramatic improvements in survival rates are reported – in some procedures, more than a third of patients are living when they might previously have died; in all, there are 1,000 fewer deaths in English heart surgery units each year than there were.

Source: Tim Kelsey

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Uganda - School Funding and Transparency

Amount of money reaching schools 20% -> 90%

Some controversy as to causal pathway

http://www.cgdev.org/files/15050_file_Uganda.pdf

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Questions, comments, discussion!

Thank you

Irina Bolychevsky