Presentation to open data developers at the University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 28 February 2015

1. Open Data: T&T Readiness Assessment
Andrew Stott
Senior Consultant
World Bank
UWI
28 February 2015
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

2. Open Data: What’s the idea?
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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.

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8. A World of Open Data
Now over 260 governmental Open Data sites
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9. Helping built the Web of Data
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10. Data Publishing – Berners-Lee’s Scale
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 Put your data on the Web with an Open
Licence unstructured (eg PDF, HTML)
 Make it available as structured data
(eg Excel, ESRI)
 Use open, standard data formats
(eg XML, CSV, JSON, OGC)
 Use URIs to identify things (so you and
others have unique reference)
 Link your data to other people’s data,
and help them link to yours (eg RDF)
BetterWorseMinimum
http://5stardata.info/

11. Why?
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12. Deloitte POPSIS Case Studies
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Case Data Type Country Increase
BEV Mapping AT Downloads: +200% to +7,000%
DECA Addresses DK Uers: +10,000%
Destatis Statistics DE Users: +1800%
Downloads: +800%
IGN-
CNIG
Mapping ES Volume: +200%
Users: +200%
KNMI Weather NL Users: +1000%
Met.No Weather NO Users: +3000%
Spanish
Cadaster
Cadastral ES Downloads: +800% to +1900%

13. Statistics Germany
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Users: +1800% Downloads: +800%

14. Main Uses of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

15. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

16. Enrichers
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17. Aggregators
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18. Developers
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19. European Union: potential of €200bn a year
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20. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

21. OpenlyLocal: a dashboard for each City
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22. Is My Money Being Spent Well?
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24. Transparent and Accountable Government
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25. Contracts: A great example from Slovakia
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
Original text
of contract
from Gov
website
“Rate this
contract”
Key details
and links
Fair-Play
Alliance

26. International Corporate Transparency
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27. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

28. Performance of individual hospitals
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30. Disaster Risk Management
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31. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

32. Getting data more easily
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33. Improving government data
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34. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
• A tool developed by the World Bank to help
prioritize actions in an Open Data Program.
• A rapid assessment to identify where
interventions can most effectively applied.
• A tool designed to support an economical and
action-oriented assessment of the readiness of a
national government to evaluate, design, and
implement an Open Data Program.

35. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
What is?
- Diagnostic and planning
tool
- Recommendations for
action based on best
practices
- Start of a robust and
consultative dialogue
among relevant
stakeholders
- Beginning of a process
- ‘Living’ document
What is NOT?
- Measurement tool
- Formal evaluation
exercise
- Successful and
sustainable Open Data
Program
- The end or result of a
process

36. The Eight Critical Factors
for Successful Open Data

37. Leadership
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38. Policies & Legal
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39. Government Institutional Structures &
Skills for Data
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40. Data within Government
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41. Demand for Open Data from Civil Society
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42. Open Data Ecosystem
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43. Financing
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44. Technology Infrastructure & Skills
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45. Datasets examined this week
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Tourism
Energy
Environment
Contracts
Census
Education
Budget
Crime
Payments
Land
Statistics
Weather
Elections
Aviation
Prices
UWI
Health
Labour
Arts Events
Agriculture
Company
Imports
Roads
Arts Sudsidies
Youth
Library
Maps

46. Issues to discuss
 Opportunities for Open Data in T&T?
 What data is important to you?
 What do you/would you do with it?
 How easy/difficult is it to get data currently?
 What happens when you try?
 What examples of data-driven applications?
 How widespread are the skills to use data?
 How do developers/activists organise?
 How is the access to supporting services eg
hosting, cloud? 46

47. Discussion
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48. End
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