Rich Watts: Civil Society 2.0: A Business Case

Civil Society 2.0: A business case NCVO Annual Conference, 1 March 2011 Rich Watts, Director of Policy & Development

Our vision is to enhance the everyday lives of disabled people in Essex and beyond
Our people
43 staff, nearly £1.8m turnover
52% are disabled people
100% Board Members with a self-declared impairment
Who we engage with
Approx 3,900 clients in 3 services across 4 local authority areas
Nearly 1,700 members
Nearly 130 volunteers
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 About ecdp

Performance dashboard
Publishing (innovative) service models
Management Board information
Annual reports
Open Data action plan
(Part of our wider engagement and transparency work, e.g. coproduction, use of social media)
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 Our Open Data work

Engagement
Colleagues in all teams at all levels
Members
Regular, new information to share
Quality
We collect this data anyway, but leads to better quality data
Better decision making
Deeper understanding of our work
Efficiency and performance
Need good systems and processes
If Open Data is telling you (and others) something, then need to do something about it
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 Open Data: internal drivers

Learning
Share learning with others
Foundation for others to build on
Enables mutual delivery of vision, mission and values
Relationships
Opens relationships with commissioners
Opportunity to wider relationship with general public
Reputation
Willingness to be open and transparent
Nothing to hide, plenty to share, lots to learn
Being ahead of the curve
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 Open Data: external drivers

The question of competition
Getting anyone to do something with the data
Local Authorities: power dynamics and motivations
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 Open Data - challenges

Cross-cutting work with beneficial impact in many areas
Open Data is a messenger
Drives improvement as much internally as externally
Worth engaging with anyway (and the external environment may follow)
Civil Society 2.0: A business case 1 March 2011 Open Data - summary

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