1. Improving Government through
Open Data and Open Engagement
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
@dirdigeng
Skopje, Macedonia andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
21 Mar 2012 0.91

2. Open Data
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3. Typical Policy Drivers for Open Data
Transparent Government
Triple Objectives
Improve public services
Economic growth and social value
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4. Open Data for Economic Growth
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5. Core Reference Data for the Economy
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6. Cleansing and organising data
Business Intelligence from item-level
purchasing data 6

7. Enabling others to mine data to improve
public outcomes
 Prescription data
 Patient outcome
data
 Longitudinal health
records
 Pupil-level
education records
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8. Operational efficiency/optimisation
Real time info on road delays and roadworks allows
logistics efficiency 8

9. Data Broking
Customer-focused reliable high-volume
serving of data and APIs 9

10. 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 data
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11. Economic Value of Open Data
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12. Open Data in Public Service
Transformation
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13. Better Information services to the public
Transport, public
facilities and crime data
among most downloaded
Smartphone Apps 13

14. Use data to compare and choose hospitals
Patient 12+ Weeks
ratings MRSA-free
Blood
clots
2 recent
MRSA
Good C-Diff
Low record
Mortality
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15. Crime: Data Engagement Accessible data on crime
It’s very local
Local team
How YOU
can get
involved
Local police
Twitter feed
Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube ….
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16. Crowd-sourcing to improve official data
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17. Civil Society front-end to public services
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18. Government is a data user too
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19. Open Data in Transparency
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20. Financial Transparency: Macro Level
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21. Financial Transparency: Transaction level
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22. Financial Transparency: Contract Level
Fair-Play
Alliance
“Slovakia’s
Most Wanted
Watchdog”
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/

23. UK Coalition Government Transparency
 Expenditure
 Senior staff salaries
 Expenses
 Contracts
 Tenders
 Organisation charts
 Local service &
performance data
 Meetings with lobbyists
 Meetings with press
owners
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24. Open Government Data Re-Use “Ecosystem”
Government Business/Civil Society Consumer
Government should not do
more than strictly necessary
Improve Gov data
Aggregation Processing,
Marketing
Data Creation and editing and End Use
and delivery
Organisation packaging
Specialist Specialist Specialist Specialist
Services Services Services Services
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25. 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 technologies
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26. Crowdsourcing Policy
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28. Crowd-sourcing efficiency cuts
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29. Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform
40% of comments rated useful by agency
50% of regulations will be scrapped/changed 29

30. Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform
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31. Crowd-sourcing a city’s future
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32. Crowd-sourcing a constitution
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33. e-Petitions
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34. e-Petitions
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35. Road charging attracted 1.8m signatures
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36. e-Petitions
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37. 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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38. Questions?
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39. End
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