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
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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