open government data: implications for auditors
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Open Government Data: Implications
for Auditors
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
The Hague
21 Jan 2013 1.0
@dirdigeng
What is Open Data?
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Open data is
data
that can be
freely
used,
reused
and redistributed
by anyone
for any purpose.
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A World of Open Data
Now over 260 governmental Open Data sites
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Why are Governments Opening
Data
Governments collect and use a lot of data
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By releasing it as Open Data
New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
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Tri
ple
Ob
jec
tiv
es
Open Data and Auditors: Some Topics
The crowd as part of the system of control
Maximising value from the information assets
Data creating citizen pressure to improve
services
Assessing the “Open Government” loop
Government as a Platform
Quality of internal information systems and
sourcing of data
Open Auditing?
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The crowd as part of the system
of control
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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
Financial Transparency: Macro Level
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The emergence of data-driven journalism
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Holding government accountable
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Transparent and Accountable Government
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Financial Transparency: Transaction level
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Pressure to justify and restrain costs
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Pressure to justify and restrain costs
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Contracts: A great example from Slovakia
18 http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
Original text
of contract
from Gov
website
“Rate this
contract”
Key details
and links
Fair-Play
Alliance
Transparency promoting sustainability
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Maximising value from the
information assets
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Economic Value of Open Data
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Economic Value of Open Data
Open Gov Data in EU would increase
business activity by up to €40 Bn/year, with
total benefits up to
€140 Bn/year
Spanish study found ~€600m of business from
open data with >5000 jobs
Australian study found ROI of ~500% from
open data
Deloitte found open data was reused 10x-100x
more than charged-for data
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National Information Infrastructure
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National Information Infrastructure
The data a government collects can provide the
“National Information Infrastructure”
Global Positioning System data now has
$122bn/yr benefits to US economy alone
UK National Mapping Agency data supports
£100bn/yr of GDP activity
Open Weather Data in US has created 400
companies employing 4000 people
Open addressing data in Denmark now gives
€14m/yr benefits and 70:1 ROI
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Emerging Open Data Business Models
Cleansing and organising data
Information services to the public
Data mining
Operational efficiency/optimisation
Financial products
Customer attraction and retention
Data broking
Value-added services back to Government
Cleansing and organising data
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Business Intelligence from item-level
purchasing data
Information services to the public
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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
Saving money on medical prescriptions
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Operational efficiency/optimisation
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Real time info on road delays and roadworks allows
logistics efficiency
Financial Products
Weather Risk
Management
industry in
North America:
$ 4billion annual
contract value
Data Broking
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Most complete
Directory of French
Data
14,000 datasets
Scope:
French National and
Regional
(+ some European)
Public & private
Open & charged
Search
News
Contacts for specialists
Government is a data user too
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Sharing Open Data within public
agencies in Manchester saves €10m/yr
It’s not just about new data
Scope for “Open Data” also includes data
previously “published” but …
in non-reusable format
with restricted licence
only aimed at specialist groups
only for payment
only in response to requests
difficult to find
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data.gov.uk contains a lot of data which
nobody knew was already published
Challenge charging for government data
Economically sub-
optimal
Licensing inhibits
innovation
Hidden Costs –
marketing, payment
collection, enforcement
Barriers to entry suit
existing customers
No real pressure for
efficiency 35
Data creating citizen pressure to
improve services
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Performance of Schools
Crime Data and Police/Court Performance
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Hospital and Clinic Performance
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12+ Weeks
MRSA-free
Good C-Diff
record Low
Mortality
2 recent
MRSA
Blood
clots
Patient
ratings
Is there data on things people care about?
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Assessing the “Open
Government” loop
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How effective is “consultation” really?
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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
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
Attract Inform Engage Action
Also ask …. is the government listening?
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Government as a Platform
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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
Civil Society front-end to public services
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Photos: @memespring,
@MadLabUK, @paul_clarke
Engage with developers
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Licensing
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Standards
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Quality of internal information
systems and sourcing of data
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Data Quality
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Release of data
will reveal issues
of data quality
Celebrate greater
checking of data!
Use as stimulus to
Measure
Prioritise
Improve
Using citizens to help improve data
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Citizen-sourced data
56 #uksnow TN13 4/10
Data Publishing – Star Quality
Put your data on the Web (any
format)
Make it available as structured data
(e.g. Excel, CSV, instead of PDF)
Use open, standard formats (e.g.
XML, RDF)
Use URLs to identify things (so
people and machines can point at
your data)
Link your data to other people’s data
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Ease o
f re
use
Benefits of linked data within Government also
Measure conformance with standards
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Open Auditing?
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Open Auditing?
Open Data as part of audit intelligence
Public Engagement on Priority setting
Transparency of process
“Audit as a platform”
‒ Leverage crowdsourcing for audit effectiveness
‒ Results available for re-use and extension
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Audit 2.0?
Open Data and Auditors
The crowd as part of the system of control
Maximising value from the information assets
Data creating citizen pressure to improve
services
Assessing the “Open Government” loop
Government as a Platform
Quality of internal information systems and
sourcing of data
Open Auditing?!
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End
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