BCS Public Data Corp debate/ Jonathan Raper

Why #opendata has to be free Jonathan Raper CEO, Placr

… government for the people…
Government’s public tasks
Keep order (police, defence…)
Act when market fails to provide (transport, NHS…)
Hold the ring when no-one else can (land register…)
Leave the rest to the market, and regulate
Raise tax to pay for the public tasks

Charging for government services
Charge where there are usage costs for each user
Sports centre
Bus ticket
Medicine prescription
Do not charge where marginal costs are low or 0
Museum
Policing
Parks
Develop this principle for digital services

Charging for government data
Data has unusual economic properties
Fixed costs to produce, low or zero costs to distribute
If gov data is created as part of a public task then charging for a 2 nd time is a stealth tax
Charge the costs to the government 1 st purchaser
Release all data from public task as #opendata
Some gov data is produced as digital infrastructure
Costs have to be distributed over many public tasks
Release the data from these public tasks as #opendata

How to release public task #opendata
Static data can be distributed through datastores
Dynamic data has use-dependent distribution cost
Extra public funding for new infrastructure needed, or
Sponsorship eg London Underground by Microsoft, or
Crowd serving distribution tree
Licensing through Open Government Licence
Transitional arrangements for existing funding?
Release raw data, not processed data, to reduce costs
Eliminate biz development in trading funds
Regulate costs in state data monopolies

Winners and losers?
Winners
Everyone, through lower costs eg land transactions
More tax revenues from innovation around #opendata
Chance to create a 21 st century digital infrastructure
Transparency and accountability embedded in gov
Liberalised home market to foster new info industries
Losers
Some extra tax costs for regulation and ?distribution
Management of state monopolies lose power
No PDC PLC to privatise

Public Data Corporation consultation

An alternative PDC vision
Supervise releases on Data Utility model
National Digital Infrastructure Agency
Defining public tasks in data terms
Finding public task owner who is “1 st purchaser” and attributing costs to their budget
Lowering data production costs in government
Providing regulation of monopoly data producers
Liberalising data markets, especially in distribution
Stimulating innovation with Tech City and TSB

Critical issues
Clarify what investor interest justifies options for PDC that are being consulted on
Ensuring the ‘affordability’ of #opendata releases by reducing costs or identifying sponsorship
Ensuring that cost-benefit analysis of #opendata is assessed over infrastructure timescales
Disentangle public-private IPR where system integrator have roles in current system
Prove pathfinder revenues from #opendata

Contact
http://www.placr.co.uk
@madprof
[email_address]

BCS Public Data Corp debate/ Jonathan Raper

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