the uses of open data
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The Uses of Open Data
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
& UK Deputy GCIO
Skopje, Macedonia
21 March 2012 0.91
@dirdigeng
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A World of Open Data
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Federal Government, USA
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United Kingdom Government
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Australia
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Moldova
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Kenya – first in Africa
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World Bank
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London, United Kingdom
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City of Vancouver, Canada
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City of Rennes, France
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City of San Francisco, USA
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City of Vienna, Austria
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A World of Open Data
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Now over 200 governmental Open Data sites
Some UK Examples
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New economic and social value
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Cleansing and organising data
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Business Intelligence from item-level
purchasing data
Information services to the public
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Weather, transport and
public facilities among
most downloaded
Smartphone Apps
Data Mining
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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
Financial Products
Weather Risk
Management
(US: $4bn annual
contracts value)
Flood insurance
on detailed
topography and
river records
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Customer attraction and retention
23Local house prices attract potential customers
estate
agents/
realtors
Financial
services
builders and
other local
services
Public Service data as a hub for civil
engagement
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Improving Public Services
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Nation-wide Crime Data
26Vision: CrimeArrestConvictionSentence
Crime Data to your mobile phone
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Crowd-sourcing to improve official data
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Government is a data user too
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Transparent and Accountable
Government
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Transparent and Accountable Government
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Pressure to justify and restrain costs
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Transparency promoting sustainability
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Public scrutiny of contracts
34http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
Data Journalism
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Lessons learned
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Top-level political support essential
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“Public information does not belong to Government, it belongs to the public.”
“Greater transparency will enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account”
Strong civil society ―demand-side‖ vital too
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Passionate team important too!
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Deliver incrementally
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Ensure clear, common, licensing
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It’s not (just) an IT project!
CIOs can give leadership, but
CIOs/IT Directors often do not “own” the data
Key issues are business, policy and politics:
don’t let policy makers brand it as “just IT”
Keep the IT simple
‒ Established open source (eg CKAN+Drupal)
or commercial products (eg Socrata)
‒ use existing contracts/infrastructure with
niche firms
‒ host data on existing websites or on public
Cloud42
Don’t accept ―no‖ — work out ―how‖
It’s held separately by n different organisations, and we can’t join it up
It will make people angry and scared without helping them
It is technically impossible
We do not own the data
The data is just too large to be published and used
Our website cannot hold files this large
We know the data is wrong
We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where it is wrong
We know the data is wrong, and we will waste valuable resources
inputting the corrections people send us
People will draw superficial conclusions from the data without
understanding the wider picture
People will construct league tables from it
It will generate more Freedom of Information requests
It will cost too much to put it into a standard format
It will distort the market
Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc extract
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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
The importance of location
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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
Photos: @memespring,
@MadLabUK, @paul_clarke
Continuously engage with developers
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.. and highlight applications, not data
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Open Government Data Re-Use Model
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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 technologies50
Summary
Open Data has Triple Objectives:
Transparency + Public Services + Economics
Varied, innovative business/social models
―Push‖ and ―Pull‖ of data
Business and Civil Society engagement is
essential
‒ Important to grow open data “ecosystem”
Data flow can be both ways
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Questions?
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End
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