Presentation given at Botswana Innovation Hub 7 August 2013

1. Open Data: What is it, and
why are governments doing it?
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
Senior Consultant, World Bank
Gaborone, Botswana
07 Aug 2013 v0.2
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

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6. 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.

7. Over 260 national, regional and city Open
Government Data initiatives
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8. Objectives of Open Data
New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
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TripleObjectives

9. Objectives of Open Data
New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
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TripleObjectives

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12. TFL Open Data as a Transport Investment
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 ~500 Applications
(mobile, web, others)
 ~5000 people involved
in “app industry”
 As a transport project
alone, evaluated by
usual economic criteria:
ROI = 58:1
 TFL have stopped
making their own apps

13. Anonymised medical prescription data
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 Used experts in
 Health
 Data Analytics
 Analysed 35m
data records
 8 weeks
 £200m+/yr
savings
 Repeatable
 Could scale to
£1.5bn

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estate
agents/
realtors
Financial
services
builders and
other local
services

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20. Assisting Foreign Inward Investment
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21. A single business can use the same
information several ways!
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22. Information services to the public
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23. Business Intelligence
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24. Customer attraction and retention
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25. 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 (0.7% of GDP)
 Australian study found ROI of ~500% from open
data
 Deloitte/POPSIS found open data was reused
10x-100x more than charged-for data
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All economic analysis and case studies
point the same way

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27. National Information Infrastructure
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28. Case Study on Denmark’s
Address Data
Thanks to Danish Ministry of Housing, Urban
and Rural Affairs

29. House fires: should be like this
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30. House fires: but sometimes like this
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31. Denmark Address Data Vision
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Postal services
Digital mapping
E-Government
Utilities
Research
Energy, Environment
Health care
Local Government
Transport services
Mobile services, GPSEmergency services
Official address
file maintained
by the municipalities
Addrx1
Common base for re-use and application development
x1000

32. Address data collected & harmonized
1996-2001
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Rural
City
Suburban
Mun StrC AdNo X-coord.
Y-coord. Arc.
--- ---- ---- -------,--
-------,-- -----
619 4605 _17A 248.510,45
153.345,08 175,0

33. 2002: Free of Charge Data Agreement
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 Covered full public/private
sector re-use of address
data
 Available at marginal costs
of distribution
 No license fee or similar
charging
 Re-distribution permitted
for all commercial and
non-commercial purposes

34. Assessment in 2010
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Period Benefits Costs Return on
Investment
2004-09
(including
setup)
>€60m ~€2m 22:1
2010
(steady
state)
~€14.0m ~€0.2m 70:1

35. 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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36. Government can be an Open Data user too
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37. Objectives of Open Data
New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
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TripleObjectives

38. Performance of individual schools
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39. Irene Choge, data journalist, NTV, Kenya.
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40. The Health Assignment: Toilets and Grades
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41. Performance of individual hospitals
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12+ Weeks
MRSA-free
Good C-Diff
recordLow
Mortality
2 recent
MRSA
Blood
clots
Patient
ratings

42. Uganda: Open Data and Community Health
Monitoring
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 33% reduction in
under-5 mortality
 20% extra utilisation
of out-patient
services
 Significant
improvements in:
 Immunization
 Waiting times
 Absenteeism

43. Performance of local police and courts
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44. Open Data used to drive Citizen 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

45. Civil Society front-end to public services
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46. Citizen-sourced data
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#uksnow TN13 4/10

47. Objectives of Open Data
New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
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TripleObjectives

48. Where does my money go?
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49. Transparent and Accountable Government
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50. Is My Money Being Spent Well?
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51. What contracts are being granted to who?
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Links to the
documents

52. Organisational Transparency
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Where the person
is in the structure
Pay
Responsibil
Contact details

53. Do officials turn off their lights at night?
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54. OpenlyLocal: a dashboard for each City
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55. International Corporate Transparency
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