Improving Government through

Open Data and Open Engagement

Andrew Stott

UK Transparency Board

formerly Director, data.gov.uk

Skopje, Macedonia

21 Mar 2012 0.91

@dirdigeng

andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

Open Data

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Typical Policy Drivers for Open Data

Economic growth and social value

Improve public services

Transparent Government

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Tri

ple

Ob

jec

tive

s

Open Data for Economic Growth

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Core Reference Data for the Economy

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Cleansing and organising data

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Business Intelligence from item-level

purchasing data

Enabling others to mine data to improve

public outcomes

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Prescription data

Patient outcome

data

Longitudinal health

records

Pupil-level

education records

Operational efficiency/optimisation

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Real time info on road delays and roadworks allows

logistics efficiency

Data Broking

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Customer-focused reliable high-volume

serving of data and APIs

Economic Value of Open Data

Open Gov Data in EU would increase

business activity by up to €40 Bn/year

Direct & indirect benefits up to €200 Bn/year

(1.7% of EU GDP)

Open Weather Data in US has created 400

companies employing 4000 people (compared

to 30 in Europe)

Spanish study found ~€600m of business from

open data with >5000 jobs

Australian study found ROI of ~500% from

open data10

Economic Value of Open Data

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Open Data in Public Service

Transformation

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Better Information services to the public

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Transport, public

facilities and crime data

among most downloaded

Smartphone Apps

Use data to compare and choose hospitals

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12+ Weeks

MRSA-free

Good C-Diff

recordLow

Mortality

2 recent

MRSA

Blood

clots

Patient

ratings

Crime: Data 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

Crowd-sourcing to improve official data

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Civil Society front-end to public services

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Government is a data user too

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Open Data in Transparency

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Financial Transparency: Macro Level

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Financial Transparency: Transaction level

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Financial Transparency: Contract Level

22http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/

Fair-Play

Alliance

“Slovakia’s

Most Wanted

Watchdog”

UK Coalition Government Transparency

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Expenditure

Senior staff salaries

Expenses

Contracts

Tenders

Organisation charts

Local service &

performance data

Meetings with lobbyists

Meetings with press

owners

Open Government Data Re-Use “Ecosystem”

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Government should not do

more than strictly necessary

Data Creation

Aggregation

and

Organisation

Processing,

editing and

packaging

Marketing

and deliveryEnd Use

Business/Civil Society Government Consumer

Specialist

Services

Specialist

Services

Specialist

Services

Specialist

Services

Improve Gov data

Open Data Institute: its mission

Develop capability of UK

businesses to exploit value of

Open Data

Engage developers/small

businesses to build Open Data

supply chains and commercial

outlets

Help public sector use its own

data more effectively

Ensure academic research in

Open Data technologies25

Crowdsourcing Policy

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Crowd-sourcing efficiency cuts

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Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform

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40% of comments rated useful by agency

50% of regulations will be scrapped/changed

Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform

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Crowd-sourcing a city’s future

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Crowd-sourcing a constitution

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e-Petitions

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e-Petitions

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Road charging attracted 1.8m signatures

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e-Petitions

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Summary: Key International Learning Points

Open Data a key enabler

Open Data can serve Triple Objectives:

Growth+ Public Services + Transparency

Important to grow open data “ecosystem” in

civil society

Design to Engage rather than just inform

Co-creation not consultation

Government must be prepared to listen and

act

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Questions?

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End

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