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This is the slide deck used by me at Civil Service Live on 22 September 2015 to introduce and discuss the Open Defra project work and the culture change needed to release 8000 Defra datasets by June 2016.
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- 2. 2 What would the environmental impact of a moto-cross trail here be? Would this be a good place to grow vines? What is the soil type, how steep is it which way does it face? Is this woodland ready to fell? What species are present? What’s it worth? Would we get permission to route a powerline here? What can I see standing here? How many visitors come here? Why? Is this moorland in good enough to effectively capture rain and prevent flooding in the valley? Where were the cattle in this field breed and sold? Who owns this farm? How well connected is it? Could it be the base for a rural technology centre? Why unlock our data vaults? Can I canoe here? What’s the water flow like? What crop is being grown in this field? How many businesses would be flooded if this river broke it’s banks? What’s the soil and geological make-up of this land? What’s the average annual rainfall? Should I restrict access here due to fire risk?
- 3. What is #OpenDefra? • Unlocking 8000 datasets from Defra’s vast data vaults by June 2016 • Enabling a cultural change to make releasing data as open data the norm • Speaking-out about the value of our data and how it is used • Encouraging innovation through hack days & innovation challenges with data users • Fixing business processes to enable a quick, risk based approach to data release • Improving the data we make available
- 4. Data (Noun) Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. (Oxford English Dictionary) Open Data Data that anyone can access, use and share (Open Data Institute)
- 5. ACCELLERATOR • In response to user feedback & demand we’ll: • Improve data • Implement data services or linked data • Combine & consolidate data • Publish data, as-is, as quickly as possible • Publish once risk based approval is complete Now • Exploring what data is held or what data can be extracted from systems • Identifying current barriers to release • Identifying potential users • Exploring options to encourage use Improve Maintain • Provide service levels for data & data services • Where prioritised by users • Where there is viable business case • Total number of datasets may reduce as we become more efficient and combine datasets Next ACCELLERATORHow are we unlocking our data? Now • Exploring what data is held or what data can be extracted from systems • Identifying current barriers to release • Identifying potential users • Exploring options to encourage use Improve • In response to user feedback & demand we’ll: • Improve data • Implement data services or linked data • Combine & consolidate data Maintain • Provide service levels for data & data services • Where prioritised by users • Where there is viable business case • Total number of datasets may reduce as we become more efficient and combine datasets Next • Publish data, as-is, as quickly as possible • Publish once risk based approval is complete
- 6. #OpenDefra www.gov.uk/defra defradigital.blog.gov.uk Michael.e.rose@environment-agency.gov.uk © Crown copyright 2015 You may re-use this information (excluding logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.
- 7. #OpenDefra www.gov.uk/defra defradigital.blog.gov.uk Michael.e.rose@environment-agency.gov.uk © Crown copyright 2015 You may re-use this information (excluding logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.
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- Good morning/afternoon I’m [name], [role] from the #OpenDefra team <or your organisation> Today I want to give you a very short introduction to #OpenDefra our new approach to data sharing and utilisation. When our Secretary of State, Elizabeth Truss, set out her vision for the future of British food & farming and the environment in June she announced that over the next year we will be unlocking our vast data vaults to make 8,000 datasets publicly available, in the biggest data giveaway that Britain has ever seen. Improving how we use & share data is a key to Defra’s future success, it is key to delivering our plan to unleash the potential of food, farming, nature and the countryside, championing the environment and protecting us all from natural threats and hazards. <NEXT>
- The Secretary of State believes that anyone with a great idea, should have full and open access to our data and that this has the potential to bring billions of pounds to our economy. She has challenged developers, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, NGOs, and farmers to find new uses for the data. To do things like: <REVEAL> Help wine lovers sip English bubbly made from the sweetest grapes because growers have found the field with the best soils and slopes <REVEAL> [to] Enable canoeists to be able to check an app to see how fast their local river is flowing. <REVEAL> [and to] help rural businesses grow and innovate in tech-countryside She also challenged us, the public & civil servants in Defra, to make better use of data. To do more for less and cut down red tape. <REVEAL> For example she challenged us to survey the country’s crops without tramping the fields, so farmers get less bother from inspectors and our costs are lower. <REVEAL> Our data can help us and other people answer lots of fundamental questions about our environment, these answers will help protect it and make it highly productive. Within Defra we have a continuing long-term challenge to change the way we use data and embed a data driven culture. <NEXT>
- But what does this mean for Defra? Our vision is that We will make more use of data science and big data techniques to get insight from our data, our data scientists will be the first people who are asked for a solution when a new challenge or issue arises We will innovate and exploit emerging data resources, including the vast amounts of earth observation data that’s now freely available [and of course] we will work in the open and sharing our methodologies, models, code and of course data openly whenever possible So how do we achieve this? To make 8000 datasets available in 12 months we have setup an open data accelerator project, to drive data publication and sort out our business processes and governance. We’ll be working hard to promote cultural change right across Defra to make sure we are only collecting the data we really need and to ensure we have the capabilities to use and share as much of the data we collect as possible [and] we will raise awareness of the value of our data and explore how it can be used with technology businesses, NGOs & Farmers You’ll be able to follow our progress by following #OpenDefra. <NEXT>
- <OPTIONAL SLIDE> At this point it might be worth pausing a moment to consider what we mean by data and open data. As you can see data is defined as “Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis” this is a very broad definition and in the context of #OpenDefra when we talk about data we can be a little more specific, we mean: Organisational data: data about our finances, organisational structure and performance [or services, teams, and people] Contextual data: about land use, habitats, flood risk, noise, farm boundaries, imagery, base mapping and so on Operational data: customer data, data used to target and monitor, data that is a product of R&D But what about open data? Well that is any of the above that is released under an open licence, in our case the Open Government Licence. The Open Government Licence is very simple it allows ANYONE to do ALMOST ANYTHING with our data, providing its source is acknowledged. <NEXT>
- <STUFF IN [] IS FOR MORE TECHNICAL AUDIENCES> The need to accelerate our data releases means we need to work fast and take risks to provide early opportunities for data users to innovate <REVEAL> We are currently working with colleagues from right across Defra, [in every directorate, organisation and team] and with key stakeholders to identify what data we have, who our data users are and what data they want most. [We are calling this our discovery phase.] <REVEAL> We will build packages of data that we can release as quickly as possible as they are. The data probably won’t be prefect but it will be usable and easy to find on DATA.GOV.UK. [The datasets will be in an alpha form at this stage] <REVEAL> These stages form the key parts of our immediate Open Data Accelerator Project <REVEAL> Later if there is a demand we will improve datasets providing [BETA] products and services that respond to user needs <REVEAL> Finally where users really need it and business cases stack up we will implement more formal service levels [in live services] <REVEAL> Throughout this process we will be engaging with potential data users, the developers, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, NGOs, and farmers, to understand what they need from us and to find new uses for the data and demonstrate it’s value We will also be working closely with Defra colleagues to ensure they have the skills, tools and support they need to rise to the challenge and work in new more open ways. We will be asking for feedback throughout the process through a programme of events and challenges, via social media, on DATA.GOV.UK or direct to us, if it’s tagged #OpenDefra we’ll spot it and think about it.
- SLIDEDECK put together by Andrew.Newman@defra.gsi.gov.uk <INTERNAL> We will need your help to meet this challenge, we need you to identify, document and publish our open data. <EXTERNAL> We will need your help with this and this will create opportunities for the wider open data community, we will make sure we flag these opportunities through out our #OpenDefra campaign. Hopefully we’ve answered some of you initial questions about #OpenDefra, please get in touch if you have any questions, if you use the hash-tag #OpenDefra we should find you or contact us directly and follow our progress on the Defra Digital Blog. I’d be happy to take any questions you may have. <END>