Tim w open data strategy 12th may 2011

Open DataOpen Government
Tim Willoughby
Assistant Director
LGMA

Open Government?
“If people don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong”
“Jim Hacker”
Open Government (I980)

My name is Tim
I explain technology…

to people who don’t understand it…

people who think they do understand it…

people who despise it…

and people who worship it.

I research,
pilot and
write things...
…that help people understand how technology might help their Organisation…

I live here... According to Google Streetmaps
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In Technical Terms
I’m a Webservice –
Sitting between the Technical Teams and the Business Teams, translating and relating between them..
With Plenty of SOAP and REST....
Don’t bother me with your ideas now, I’ve got a job to do!

I live in Naas…
NAAS
Network as a Service
Used to be a Nice place to shop!

So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government
1990s: lCT expectedto make government more transparent, efficient and user oriented
2005+: disillusion as bureaucracy still in existence
Can Cloud Help?
Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

Do We Understand What the Citizen Wants?

Yes, but its not always cohesive

Local Government

Definite reference!
Taking the
ego out of
egovernment

Why would government look at Open Data

Sharing!

Local Government Evolution

Where Next…Open Data
What we are talking about is -
Government As A Platform?

Open is forcing Radical Change With or Without the Owners / Shareholders

It is all about the Data
2010 Spend on Spatial data and Software in the USA - IDC

Issues
Data Harvesting
How / Why does data get into your system
Position, accuracy, improvement.
Data Management
How do we manage our data
Do we have to capture data more than once
Geo Data
Costs of collection
Costs of Management
Quality
Data Quality
If we can’t trust the data to Share it, how do we use it to make decisions?

Data Standards
Most Adopting Standards from their software Supplier.
Have to move away from this position!
Open Standards

What do we aspire to…Real Life Standards

Where do we Start
People
Places
Events
Photos
Articles / Reviews
Concepts
Comments

Its Hard for Governments to experiment

Why Open Data?
More information might lead to more informed and better decisions – The Right to Knowledge…
Higher Quality?
Open Source – More Eyes – Better Systems…
Higher degree of effectiveness & efficiency
Strengthen trust in establishment
Leverage benefits of peer production
New business models

Why Not?
Loss of control & power?
Undermining of statutory Powers
Loss of revenues to existing business by threatening their established business models
Only those with the Social Tools can benefit?
Fear of the unknown

Opportunities
Apps
Maps
Community Based Information
The power of Combining Data Sets

Opportunities
Fix My Streets

FixMyStreet
Programme for Government
In local services, we will establish a website – www.fixmystreet.ie – to assist residents in reporting problems with street lighting, drainage, graffiti, waste collection and road and path maintenance in their neighbourhoods, with a guarantee that local officials will respond within two working days.

Principles of FixMyStreet
Digitise everything Once.
Dynamic Data Capture
Open data
Open source
Reduce the Barriers to Adoption
Social Media is the Glue
There can only be one fixmystreets
One Front End
More than one Back End?
Taxonomy – We all call things the same

Semantic Web

Semantic Web
Adult Humour
Political Insight
Current Affairs
SlapStick
Colours
Bart is Funny
Homer - Doh!

Pages as a Database
Cool Stuff for sale

Pages as a Database

Cloud Application

Data, Data Everywhere

Data is hidden behind the Applications…
But yet not available in Linked Format…
What is the Solution?
Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards

Opportunity
Unfinished Estates
QR Codes

QR Codes for Public Participation

These are Small, Near… Far Away

Architecture Model for Open
Five level saturation model by Tim Berners-Lee
★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence
★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

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