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Releasing open data fuels economic activity, creating value in both the public and private sector. Research from McKinsey suggests that seven sectors could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping established companies to segment markets, define new products and services, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
While governments looking for economic outcomes from open data must focus on releasing assets with business value, the reach of that category across sectors is quite broad, as new research from New York University (NYU) makes clear.
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Developing an Open Data initiative: Lessons Learned
1. Developing an Open Data initiative:
Lessons Learned
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
Senior Consultant, World Bank
Gaborone, Botswana
07 Aug 2013 v0.2
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
2. The first 3 years of data.gov.uk
Over 9300 datasets
37 GB of geo data
Public Data Principles
Open Government
Licence
Transparency of
salaries, spending,
contracts and tenders
Four site versions, each
in response to user
feedback
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3. UK Government Transparency Data
For every central Ministry
and regional/city council: Expenditure
Senior staff salaries
Expenses
Official credit cards
Contracts
Tenders
Organisation charts
Local service &
performance data
Meetings
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5. Top-level political leadership essential
“Greater transparency
will enable the public
to hold politicians and
public bodies to
account”
“Public information
does not belong to
Government, it
belongs to the
public.”
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12. Data Publishing – Star Quality
Ease of reuse
Put your data on the Web with an
Open Licence (any format)
Make it available as structured data
(e.g. Excel, CSV, instead of PDF)
Use open, standard formats (e.g.
XML, RDF)
Use URLs to identify things (so
people and machines can point at
your data)
Link your data to other people’s data
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17. It’s not just about new data
Scope for “Open Data” also includes data
previously “published” but …
in non-reusable format
with restricted licence
only aimed at specialist groups
only for payment
only in response to requests
difficult to find
data.gov.uk contains a lot of data which
nobody knew was already published
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18. Handling the concerns of data owners
“People hug their database, they don't want to
let it go. You have no idea the number of
excuses people come up with to hang onto
their data and not give it to you, even though
you've paid for it as a taxpayer.”
– Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
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20. Manage expectations, prepare for mistakes
“We’re making a small start next
week. But eventually, it’s going to
make a big difference.”
“The information we’re publishing
next week won’t be perfect, and
I’m sure there’ll be some mistakes.
But I want to get on with it.”
UK Prime Minister 29 May 2010
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23. Data Quality
Release of data
will reveal issues
of data quality
Celebrate greater
checking of data!
Use as stimulus to
Measure
Prioritise
Improve
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30. Creating Sustainable Applications
Sustainable apps come from social
entrepreneurs – helped by geeks
Do things that matter to people
Make it quick and easy to do – “while you’re still
upset about it”
Make effective use of email
Use location: input and visualisation
Build in community support, action & stickiness
Use simple design
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33. UK Open Data Institute
Develop capability of UK
businesses to exploit value of
Open Data
Engage developers/small
businesses to build Open Data
supply chains and commercial
outlets
Help public sector use its own
data more effectively
Ensure academic research in
Open Data technologies
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34. UK Open Data Institute
Running 9 months
£200m/yr savings identified
5 startups incubated, 6 courses launched,
4 hackathons
27 private-sector company paying members
Over £2m of private sector funding secured
in 6 mths
1,500 visitors to London space – and
provides “neutral meeting space” for
government and entrepreneurs
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38. It’s not (just) an IT project!
CIOs can give leadership, but
CIOs/IT Directors often do not “own” the data
Key issues are business, policy and politics:
don’t let policy makers brand it as “just IT”
Keep the IT simple
‒ use Open Source (CKAN, Drupal, etc)
‒ use existing contracts/infrastructure with niche firms
‒ host data on existing websites or on public Cloud
Use revealed legacy data quality issues as
spur for improvement
‒ not as an excuse for doing nothing
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39. … and the biggest lesson of all
Overcome obstacles
practically
by doing,
not debating
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