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Why should Government be like a double chocolate chip cookie? Talk for DataCross, CorrelAids swiss chapter, on the future of open government data and the data ecosystem the Data Team of the Kanton of Zurich is building
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- 1. Kanton Zürich Fach- und Koordinationsstelle Open Government Data open data for an open future Laure Stadler - Open Government Data Unit Illustration by vectorjuice
- 2. Hi, I’m Laure librarian at heart, information scientist by background believes in the good over shares head of OGD @ Kanton Zürich
- 3. − data is generated, used and stored on all three political levels, depending on the task it was necessary for − therefore all political entities publish their own OGD. You can find it pooled on opendata.swiss but often in independent datasets Bildquelle: https://www.woz.ch/2101/die-schweiz-der-zukunft/gruendet-die-kantone-neu Open Government Data
- 4. Open Government Data @ktzh − decentralized organisation, centralized access: every governemnt branch publishes their data themselves − Team “Data” at the Statistical Office promotes and facilitates publication and use of OGD within the government and for the whole public − OGDs are the main ingredient* of our data ecosystem: they drive automatization and help building a collaborative data community *see: T. Lo Russo (2022): Open Government Data - key ingredient instead of side dish, https://medium.com/openzh/open-government-data-key- ingredient-instead-of-side-dish-8623920f608f
- 5. «Open Data Ecosystem» Data Publishers Data Users Open Code Open Data Viz zh.ch Data Catalogue (GUI) & Info sites zh.ch/daten Data access CSV LOD API Open Data Icons by Freepik - Flaticon ; Design & Concept by Corinna Grobe, Gianluca Macauda (2022) Webserver MetaDatenVerwaltung (GUI / API) observablehq.com/@statistikzh
- 6. Open Government Data an that publishes its freely
- 7. an open government − feels as a part of society − “public servant” is a tag some members of society wear for a while − sharing (data) is caring (for ones own needs as a member of society)
- 8. How the cookie works Data Publishers Data Users Open Code Open Data Viz zh.ch Data Catalogue (GUI) & Info sites zh.ch/daten Data access CSV LOD API Open Data Webserver MetaDatenVerwaltung (GUI / API) observablehq.com/@statistikzh Icons by Freepik - Flaticon
- 9. that shares its data freely − we need to be many − how do you build big (data) communities? − it needs to be easy − how do we make public servants feel comfortable with the idea of sharing their data? − it needs to be useful − how do you show the need for and impact of open data?
- 10. Thank you! next up: − Open Data Beer, Zürich, 07.03.2023, opendatabeer.ch − GovTechHackathon, Bern, 23.-24.03.2023 contact & more info 📧 info@open.zh.ch linkedin.com/company/statistik-zh twitter.com/OpenDataZH slide deck «Open Data Ecosystem»
Editor's Notes
- Good evening and thank you for your interest in open data. Dylan has invited me to speak about my vision for open government data, thank you for the opportunity. In the next 20 minutes I'll tell you where we are now, what future I want to work towards. And why this future is a double chocolate chip cookie. Towards the end of my presentation we hopefully will fall into a discussion naturally, so please save your questions for then.
- HI, I’m Laure. Before we can talk about my vision for OGD you need to know me a little: I started my career 20 years ago as a trainee at the library and one of the most important things I learned there was to never omit information. I remember this scientology book we received and to me it seemed logical to throw it away - after all it was dangerous, right? but my trainer told me to add it to the collection and contextualize it with other books. Since that day I trust that people do make the right decision for them if they do have enough information. I believe that we all should work towards the good on earth, in society, within ourselves. and I believe we do that with data; by informing people; by enabling people. And of course I do have my faults, I sometimes over share - apologies - but by now you all know that I also do that because I think it is better to over share than to under share. And I work with this wonderful team that shares these believes (and bears with me): that Team is the Data Unit of the canton of Zurich. We are located at the statistical office. I recently became head of open government data - but the as a team we work on a better world through data. So where do we stand today?
- (as we are international tonight I feel like it is important to start with a short overview on where and how to find Open Government Data from Switzerland.) to understand open government data in switzerland you need to know how the swiss government itself works. administrative responsibilities are shared between three political levels: the confederation, the cantons and the municipalities. Nothing that can be done at a lower political level should be done at a higher level (=Under the principle of subsidiarity). If, for example, a commune is unable to deal with a certain task, the next higher political entity, i.e. the canton, has a duty to provide support. So the data that is used for fulfilling administrative tasks is distributed between three political levels and no one office could provide it all. You can find all of the open government data from any swiss administration or government branch on opendata.swiss
- What is true for the big picture is also true for the canton of zurich: for publishing OGD we mimic the decentralized organization of our administration. but on one platform and with one point of access for all open data. the government branches that work with the datasets in the first place are also responsible to publish and maintain it as open data. In turn we, that is the team “data” at the statistical office, support them in every way we can: we provide all the infrastructure, we counsel the data publishers on how to improve the whole process through open data, we promote their open data so it gets known and used. But in the end it is always the data publishers who decide what they publish. Open data serves as the “main ingredient” of our work. We build our data services on top of it, we show how efficient your work can be when you use open data for automatization or when sharing it to work with other parts of the administration. this isn’t everyones approach, some cantons clean and publish datasets as a service for their data publishers and are much quicker in publishing new datasets. but we chose this more time consuming way because of 2 things: there are no data inventories for the government or even some of it’s offices. and second counseling on one dataset helps us to build trust and teach some data literacy. we really hope this trust and this literacy leads to the data publishers finding more dataset to publish and that they will start counseling others on how to work with open data themselves.
- how does this work? everything starts with administrative entities who are or become our data publishers. they are responsible for the data they use for their work and they stay responsible for it when it becomes open (data): Data Publishers publish their data through our “MetaDatenVerwaltung” (typically published as CSV, API oder Linked Open Data) they can do that via a self-explanatory graphical user interface or through an R-Package they stay data owners and are in full control of what is published Open Data is all about sharing and collaborative use of data (Data Sharing) we make sure, the data is always accessible through the same URL, so it can be accessed directly by various services both Open Code and Open Data Viz serve as intermediary for an easier understanding of Data that way Open Data becomes the linchpin between Data Publishers and Data Users so - all well and good with open government data in the canton of zurich? in a way, yes. i’ve seen the work my co-workers have done over the last 2 years and it lead to this impressive eco-system. if you want to know more about how we work I'll show you a QR-Code to access the full slide deck by Corinna & Gianluca at the end of these slides. Together we unlocked the future. For now this still is the open data ecosystem, so it lives within a small community of public servants who are data literate and have an open mindset. how do we make it snowball from here?
- what I really want is not Open Government Data itself. I want a open government. One that realizes it is part of society and therefore profits from publishing its data freely.
- An open government should feel as part of society, not apart from society. In an open government public servant would be a tag some members of the public wear for a while. Pretty much like a double chocolate chip cookie where some chocolate chips are happily embedded in a dough of chocolate and keep melting into it. But if I had to guess right now, I’d say less than 2% of all government data in zurich is already open. Because we don’t know it exists, because the people working with it don’t know about the concept of open data or because they don’t want to share their data. Whenever I meet someone from another administrative office I ask them about their data and whether we could publish it. Sometimes they’re all here for it, sometimes … not so much. The main reasons for a no are: they don’t think their specific data is interesting to anyone they don’t think the public could understand their data they themselves or their bosses are afraid of consequences and this is sad. Because public servants are an amazing bunch of people. They chose to work for the benefit of everyone even though they earn less than they would in finance i.e. But working for the government is highly regulated, it can be slooow and we all do have way more work than we could ever get done. So it’s easy to lose sight of why you are doing this and that, in fact, your job could make a difference. So what I really want is to use open government data as a way to an open government mindset. To connect the sense of purpose with a feeling of possibility. yes you can share your data, it is easy and only good things will happen if you do. And hopefully this experience will shape the self-perception of public servants - that they are members of the public, that informing the public through open government data is empowering themselves. That could look like a story that happened last month:
- What would that mean? Beispiel Energiedaten Winterthur: One of our Data Publishers, The City of Winterthur, contacted us with the idea of a new dataset. So this means Publlishers on a different political level know OGD and reach out to work together. They had talked to another department within administration to publish data on power consumption. So the publisher we worked with started to reach out to other parts of administration to guide them to publish open data. They had to, because When I first talked to Stadtwerk Winterthur, the local energy provider who holds the dataset, they had already prepared it according to our data standards. It was ready to be published All they needed was some help with the accessability: we helped describe the data and wrote a script to update it on our webserver every night We finally promoted this new data set. That's how a data user, Sara Hänzi, learned about it and built a shiny dashboard around this data. The cookie will be done, once Winterthur uses Saras Dashboard to improve their insight and data. Wich will be at March 7th at our next open data beer so how do we make stories like this happen time and time again? i’ve got some generic answers and some ideas I can tell you about, but we have now arrived at the point of our evening, where I do have more questions than answers. ->
- How do we become a government that shares its data freely? many: in change management they say you need ⅓ of a group to change its culture. We are about 30’000 employees in the canton’s administration alone and many more in the municipalities ; how do you build a community of 10’000 people? :D of course we don’t need 10’000 people to actively work on publishing open government data, but in order to free more data we do need active data guides in every administrative office of the canton (and the communes), because someone needs not only to know what data might exists but also know how to clean and describe it. and we do need to connect these data guides so they can work together to align data processes through shared data. So how do we connect and motivate data guides of every administrative office in a government that does not prioritize working together? How do you build a big and active data community? easy: and by easy i actually mean “comfortable”. i said before, that government was a highly regulated environment, therefore public servants in a lot of offices are selected and trained to make sure they never make a mistake. if in doubt you better don’t do it. and they do have good reason for that, we all know a mistake could lead to budget cuts. Publishing data should feel like the safer option. How do we do that? how do we make rather cautious public servants feel comfortable with the idea of sharing their data? I have some ideas: use familiar project management tools, map out the whole process in typically used standards … but I am sure you have more ideas, what are they? useful: we don’t have a lot of time, no one does. if we are going to take on a new task, no matter how small, it has to serve the purpose I work/was hired for. data publishers need to understand the impact shared or open data could have. This would be solved if every public servant was data literate. But until then, we have to show them the need for data and what could be done with it. And here I relly need your help: whenever you search for data in vain, whenever you find data and use it for a project - please tell us. You can always write to us at open government data unit and we will forward it to the right office.