Embedding Open Data in your organisation

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Jenny Brodén

Projectmanager@

Karlstad

Sweden

Koen Panis

Researcher@

Memori

Belgium

Job Wiegant

Info-manager@

Groningen

Netherlands

Drivers

Operational

Streamline processes

Reuse and link data

Avoid duplication

External quality check

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Governance

Democratic accountability

Trust

Equal access

Interaction

Participation

Drivers

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Economic

Improved efficiency

Less inquiries

New insights

Innovation and economic growth

Barriers

Operational

Not aware

Risk averse

No time or staff

No uniform policy

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Governance

Digital divide

Challenged?

Misinterpreted

Release too much

Barriers

Legal

Who owns data?

Privacy

Security

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Operational

Task complexity

Data issues

No technical architecture

Economic

Implementation costs

Endanger own administration

Ask fee or not?

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The Groningen approach of open data

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200.000 Inhabitants

40.000 students

3500 people working for the city

And a lot of data

The city of Groningen

The Groningen approach of open data

• Learning by doing

• Learning from others (research!)

• Start small

Two pilots• Bottom-up: building a data portal

• Top-down: opening financial data

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Simple website with static content

• Show that we are opening up

• Get insight in need for data

• Learn what it takes to open data

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Pilot 1: data.groningen.nl

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What did we learn?

• Easy to open datasets that describe general topics

• Difficult to get data that is the core of somebody’s work

• Look for internal hub or data-intensive process

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What did we learn more?

• People are not dying for our data, but it can be of value

• Maintenance is a serious issue

• Scale is important – team up!

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Pilot 2: Open Finance

• Political interest (liberal democrats D66): more transparency for council and citizens

• Publish the annual budget / financial statements as OD and visualize!

• If possible: connect with national initiative

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What did we learn?

Process should be (more or less) clear before you start.

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What did we learn?

Demand / support of top level management is key

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What’s next in Groningen?

• Embedding ‘open data’ way of thinking in our policies and information architecture

• Open spending follow up: more detailed info straight from the financial system

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Questions to you

• What is the most important driver for your organisation to work with open data?

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Questions to you

• Would it be useful to start with experimenting (and how) or are there other ways of agenda-setting?

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