ICT Solutions Day Co-creating Solutions for a Smarter Future Using

Technology and Open Innovation

Lightning Talks: Enablers of Smart Development

Open Government & Open Data

Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Room: MC13-121

Event page @ http://go.worldbank.org/J3HCU23B50 (info, details, connection, materials)

Open Government

ICT-enabled transformation into open, participatory, accountable and citizen-driven government

Creates tangible benefits and new opportunities for innovation for agencies and citizens

Benefits of Open Government

To governments:

• Cost-savings

• Increasing trust in government

• Creating jobs and attracting

investments

• Catalyzing innovation

• Improving competitiveness

• Unlocking new value from assets and services

To citizens:

• Transparent and efficient government

• New channels for engagement and

participation

• Involvement in improving public services and their delivery

• Access to more government data

Open Government principles translate into real services and apps ...

Transparency

Federal transparency portal: free access to all budget data including spending by each agency on salaries, travel, supplies, contracts, equipment, and even expenses paid with credit cards used by officials.

Updated daily. 250,000 visits per month.

Accountability

Collaboration

Participation

Open Data

is

data

collected or generated by government

that can be

freely

used,

reused

and redistributed

by anyone

for any lawful purpose

Uses that give economic & social growth

Uses that improve public services

Uses that increase transparency

Benefits of Open Data in figures…

• Open Weather Data in the U.S. has created 400 companies employing 4000 people (Todd Park’s opening note, $100B)

• Releasing addressing data as Open Data in Denmark gave $21m/year benefits and 2200% ROI- $100K in app development

• Publishing the UK’s 240 cardiac surgeons’ individual clinical outcomes reduced deaths by 1000 a year

• 1000s of apps delivering public transport information in the United States – 68 in New York alone

• UK released data on location of 300,000 bus-stops; OpenStreetMap corrected 18,000 of them, improving official data accuracy.

World of Open Data

Over 260 country and city Open Data initiatives

No “standard” solution – each has national context

World Bank has a lot of knowledge about what works and what does not – and has done it

itself!

Open Gov & Open Data Ecosystems

Open Government

What is needed & how we can help

• Champions - from government, civil society, private sector

• Innovate in Process, Teams and Approach: Active engagement by agencies + civil society + private sector

• Knowledge partners to share global best practices and expertise

• Capacity building efforts (for agencies, NGOs, media ...)

• Resources ($$) for a multi-year Open Government Program

Questions?