How do you get better outcomes for government? You make sure the right people have the right information to make the right decisions. This is a brief to market asking how they can help government do this. Presented to a full house at the CBR Innovation Network as the first step forwards by the ACT Government as it seeks to embrace a data-driven culture...

1. Data Management Pilot

2. christopher.norman@act.gov.au
christo_norman
https://au.linkedin.com/in/christonorman
Christopher Norman
Director, Digital Transformation
Office of the Chief Digital Officer

3. 1. why we want to do this
2. the current world in which we live
3. our vision for this program
4. some of the challenges we see
5. how you can become a part of this process

4. Those who do not remember the
past are condemned to repeat it...
G e o r g e S a n t a y a n a
Those who think the past will keep repeating
itself are destined to remain there...
J o n C u m m i n g
Both actually…

5. Digital will redefine industries
Data will redefine knowledge
AI will redefine society

6. We are obsessed with an urgency to become
Dataculturalists.
We need to learn, corral, obser ve, analyse, use and
value our growing resource.
… t o d e l i v e r b e t t e r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s ; a n d
p ro v i d e a n a c c e s s i b l e re s o u rc e f o r a l l b u s i n e s s e s ,
c i t i z e n s a n d c o m m u n i t y g ro u p s .

7. Today in the ACT Government we have:
• Thousands of data sets – generally silo’d one from the other
• Hundreds (thousands) of business systems
• Some data warehouses
• Masses of data
• Varying maturity
• Some analytical tools
No coherent, holistic approach towards managing and using data

8. Some of the problems we have today
I can’t find the data I need
• Data is scattered everywhere
• Who knows who owns it?
• Who knows that it exists?
• How do I get it?
I can’t understand the data
• Experts wanted: apply here
• Poorly documented
• Is it authoritative
• Quality is questionable – or unknown
I can’t use the data I found
• Results are unexpected
• The privacy attributes are unclear
• Data needs to be transformed from one
form to another
Lost
Very Lost

9. Two high level use cases
What’s in it for me?
• “It takes me forever to do
mundane activities, month in,
month out”
A catch 22 problem
• “I need to link datasets from
across Directorates to gather
insights”
• “I am not allowed to see the
data from other Directorates due
to privacy and legislative
constraints”

10. Vision
Improve outcomes for government and community by
maximising the value held in data
Establish a clear case for a whole-of-government,
privacy-centred data management practice
Mission

11. Thinking about the platform
Sources Ingestion Storage Discovery Consumption
Analysis &
Presentation

12. Thinking about the platform
ACTGov
•Structured data
•Record level
•SQL & Oracle
•Sliced
Ingestion
•Scheduled
•En masse
•Incremental
•Differential
Storage
•Clear separation
•Physical, logical or
virtual
Discovery
•Methods
•Searchable
•Browsable
•Means
•Identity
•Dataset meta-data
Consumption
•Downloadable
•Queryable
•Programmatically
Analysis &
Present
•AI
•BI
•Spreadsheet
•Web
•Paper
Privacy and Security Centred

13. If we can show people
There is something in it for me!
• “A data warehouse just for me!”
• “I can save time and money”
That problems are not insoluble
• We can reconcile linking with
privacy and security
• We can provide insights easily
This pilot will have proved its worth

14. If you think you can help…
We want to establish who we are partnering with by
the end of this month. Our decision will be based on:
 Understanding of the Territory’s objectives
 Alignment of deliverables with objectives
 Approach to implementation and handover
 Value for money
Put forward a proposal – a pitch within the next two weeks

15. Remember
• We want to be moving as quickly as possible.
Something demonstrable this year
• This is a pilot to prove a bigger concept
• We hope to deliver an MVP that we can build bigger
and better later on
• We are open to people partnering to create a solution

16. Register your interest at SBIP@act.gov.au and
• send you a pack
• arrange a time for you to present your ideas and approach
We will

17. Vision
Improve outcomes for government and community by
maximising the value held in data
Establish a clear case for a whole-of-government,
privacy-centred data management practice
MissionQuestions?