Presentation held for Open Government Dialog at Fraunhofer FOKUS Berlin 18. November 2013

1. Evaluation of the OGD Implementation
of the City of Vienna
Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems
Open Data Dialog 2013

2. Our Projects
• Austrian Chancellery
– Open Data Competition Austria
– Development of Open Government Data Standards
– Round table Public Sector Register Architecture
• City of Vienna
– Advisor to the SmartICT strategy
– Support on Open Data projects
– Study on the implementation of the Open Government strategy
• Ministry of Finance
– Re-occuring jour fixe with IT-department
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3. Agenda
• 2012: Field study
– Interviews (oral and written) with municipal
departments, citizens, business
representatives, researchers, journalists
• 2013: Workshop with Heads of Municipal
Departments
• Results, Interpretation &
Recommendations
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4. Qualitative and quantitative Interviews, content analysis, desk research
2012: FIELD STUDY - OGD
IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY OF VIENNA
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5. 196 Datasets - 106 Applications

6. Study design & Methodology
• Desk research
– Legal & European perspective, strategic
documents
• Written polls and interviews with
– Department OGD responsible;
– Citizens, business representatives,
journalists, researchers
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7. Statistics
• Study timeframe June – October 2012
• Stakeholder constituency:
– External: 2/3 < 41 years old, 40% of interview
partners within 21-30 years,
80% of written poll participants male
– Internal: Participation of every department; 1/3 of
municipal department representatives ICT advisors
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8. Organisational Setting
• Administrative steering power by municipal directorate
• De-facto independent departments with broad scope for
action, limited co-operation
• Virtual OGD-department: ICT, PR, Economy, labour &
statistics, data protection, land survey
• Departments required to nominate OGD responsible
• Central register coordinator to harmonize crossdepartment data structures and statistic methodologies
• Priorization according to OGD process model
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9. Results: Department voices
• Motivation: Employees see the value of their doing by
public appreciation (feedback and applications)
• Poor men’s information management by using the OGD
portal.
• Quality assurance by back-reported mistakes
• Potential for harmonised data-basis
• Increased effort by format conversions, personnel effort
highly dependent on existing ICT-infrastructure
• No measurable change of public contacts
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10. Results: External stakeholder voices
• Citizens: legal embedding of OGD, „How-To’s“ What can be done
with data?
• Business: OGD cheap and additional resource used upon business
requests
– BUT missing data harmonization complicates cross-sector data
comparison
• Academia: accessible high quality-data for analysis and
visualisation
• Journalists: Potential for revelations
– BUT insufficient technical & statistical expertise
• App-devs: Interested in technical challenges, very limited business
incentives
– BUT better back-channels to data-responsibles for inquires
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11. Results: Evaluation study – key findings
• Good
– Reusing what is available (CMS instead CKAN)
– Unambiguous organizational setting with
established monitoring processes
• Fair
– OGD public relations
– Subsidy schemes take OGD into account
• Potential
– Integrate OGD into OG measures, raise political
awareness
– Central ICT message bus and data storage
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12. Recommendations –
local authority / administration
• OGD as an infrastructure requires novel
re-financing – departments shall not be
punished for opening up their data
• Data harmonisation
• Department-spanning data bus
• Stakeholder-oriented PR and development
initiatives
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13. Recommendations
government / political layer
• From OGD portal to OG platform: OGD as
an integral part for Open Government
• Subsidies according to seed funding
methodologies: from idea to
implementation
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14. Recommendations federal layer
• Make open the default: prepare for FOI
• CC-BY (or comparable License) as default
of public funding schemes
• Elements of „school of data“ in schools
and university curricula
• Get business (chambers of commerce) on
the OD-board
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15. 2013: WORKSHOP &
DEPARTMENT RE-ASSESSMENT
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16. 2013: Workshop, Department
Re-assessment & further Plans
• Invitation by municipal directorate
– Targeting heads of municipal departments, political
bureaus and OGD responsibles
– ~2/3 of department representatives attended of which
many provided no data
• Goal:
– Convey goals of Open Government Roadmap 2014
– Increase data supply
– Discuss novel & stakeholder oriented publication
methods
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17. Workshop
1. Introduction of OG(D) by head of municipal
directorate and OGD Competence centre
2. Voices of municipal departments AND
application developers / academia users
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Implementations
Experiences
3. Presentation of International good practice &
work by department representatives:
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Potentials
Fears
Contribution to OG strategy 2014
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18. Workshop results
• Groundwork not yet finished: diverse
knowledge of what comprises OGD
– Big Data, Personnel data, Computer
surveillance mentioned in the same vein as
Open Government Data!
• BUT: Double as many ideas for
publication of new data sets identified
during the workshop than risks and
threats!
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Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation
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E-Democracy and E-Participation
E-Voting
Bottom-Up Movements
Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration
Open Collaborative Government
Democracy, Globalization and Migration
Connected Smart City
Technology and Architecture
Self-governance in Complex Networks
Rethinking Information Visualization for the
People
Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies
Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
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PhD Colloquium
Important Deadlines
Deadline for the submission of papers,
workshop proposals, reflections:
6. December 2013
Notification of acceptance
7. February 2014
Camera-ready paper submission
28 February 2014
Conference
21. - 23. May 2014

20. Dr. Johann Höchtl
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