Presentation to a World Bank conference on 23 July 2014. More detailed paper at http://blogs.worldbank.org/ic4d/open-data-economic-growth-latest-evidence

1. Open Data and Economic Growth
Andrew Stott
Senior Consultant
World Bank
Washington DC
23 July 2014 v0.3
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

2. Why is Open Data beneficial?
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3. New Data-Driven Services
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estate
agents/
realtors
Financial
services
builders and
other local
services

4. Greater Efficiency
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5. Better Decisions
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6. The Size of the Potential Prize
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7. McKinsey Global Institute
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8. European Commission: Vickery & Deloitte
 Open Gov Data in EU would
‒ increase business activity by up to €40 Bn/yr
‒ have total benefits up to €200 Bn/yr
 Open Data was reused 10x-100x
 New types of re-users, in particular SMEs.
 Costs increase very little
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9. Omidyar/Lateral Economics
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10. Possible Benefits of Open Data
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Date Study Total
(%GDP)
2013 McKinsey 4.1
2011 EC 1.5
2014 Lateral Economics 1.1
2013 Shakespeare 0.4
Normalised using IMF, World Bank and OECD data

11. What are the Open Data
Businesses
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12. Suppliers
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2004 2010
Online
publications
Pay per use Free of charge
Downloads 130,300 1,093,000
Premium
Accounts
36 69
Premium
analyses
78,000 EUR 152,000 EUR

13. Aggregators
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14. Developers
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15. Enrichers
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16. Enablers
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17. Measuring Benefits is not easy
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18. Timescale?
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19. Which data is most valuable or
most widely valuable?
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20. Geospatial Reference Data: Maps & Addresses
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21. Transport Information
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22. Census and other detailed statistics
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23. Government Spending and Procurement
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24. Weather Data

25. National Information Infrastructure
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26. How can Governments achieve
the benefits?
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27. Government as Supplier
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28. Government as Leader
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29. Government as Catalyst
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30. Government as User
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31. Further Details
http://blogs.worldbank.org/ic4d/o
pen-data-economic-growth-
latest-evidence
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32. Thank you
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