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Open Data at Locate15 Conference 11 march 2015
1. - Keitha Booth
NZ Open Government Information and Data Programme Manager
- Land Information New Zealand
2. Scene setting
Enter open data
What this means for data suppliers and users
What this means for society
Testing New Zealand’s approach
Summary
6. Enter open data
Accessible: Proactively published, and available free of charge.
Machine-readable: Published in file formats and structures that allow
computers to extract and process the data for easy sorting, filtering and
content searching.
Re-usable: Available under legal regimes or explicit terms that place a
minimum of restrictions on how the data may be used; at most, the publisher
can specify how the source should be acknowledged.
Source: Open Data Barometer 2015
7. Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop 2015
Open Government Data Initiatives
12. More open governments
Stronger multi-sectoral collaborations on open data
Empowered citizens who use and benefit from open data
Asia 2020
13. Economic
growth
•New business &
employment
•New tools, products
•Taxation revenue
Better social
outcomes
•Data to improve daily
decisions
•Insights from analysis
Efficiencies
•One authoritative
source
•Evidence-based
policy
Transparency
and
democracy
•Public participation in
policy development
•Reporting on
performance
30. Funding
Commercialisation vs public good
Loss of revenue
Demand exceeding capacity to make
data available
Organisational capability
Technical capability
Assessing impact
Maturity level
31.
32. Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop 2015
Open data is hot in New
Zealand
33. Open data allows legal re-
use & innovation
It creates efficiencies
It improves service delivery
It allows evidence-based
policy development
It does need bold business
practice changes
Realising impact will take
many years
I’m going to make some assertions about our typical behaviour in the online 21st century
Place open data into this context
Consider what this means for data suppliers and users
And for society
Provide a brief case study of open government data in NZ
Then draw some conclusions
The information revolution means that we all use data in our daily lives. Some times it is government data, for example, bus timetables, weather forecasts, maps, legislation, data about schools’ performance
some times it is non-government data – weather forecasts in some countries, music, images, lots of content
Sometime it is data derived from government data – maps, visualisations of official statistics, charts.
Think about what data or content you have used or downloaded this week
Because we download copies without checking that the copyright owner has licenced us to copy it. Thatg is 21st century behaviour. It is a pretty special person who can put his or her hand on their heart and say they have never copied something without permission. We may even put this into presentations such as this without attributing the copyright owner. We may let our siblings or children download music or movies illegally. Lawrence Lessig, essentially the father of Creative Commons licensing, has described this situation very clearly – we are creating a generation of criminals – essentially because current copyright law was not written for the online 21st century.
We participate in government in different ways, but there are some common aspects.
Easy interaction at personal and business level
Know about the political system and what government is doing at federal, state and local government levels
Contribute to democratic activities, e.g. policy development, participation
Some of us want to innovate with government data; create new knowledge or products
Set up a viable business or social enterprise, deliver government services as an NGO, deliver geospatial data services
We want feedback mechanisms, we want to know that government has listened, or transacted, or downloaded the files in the open format we need.
Essentially, we want to see government operating as a single entity in the that best suits us.
This is where open data comes in. Its time in the sun is NOW.
OPEN DATA is HOT, because it is RELEVANT - it can address many of the issues I just highlighted., and help us return to being good corporate citizens
Open data allows legal re-use because it is licensed, its formats comply with open standards, computers can extract it without human intervention, it is free of charge, and non-discriminatory
These principles are not an issue in NZ as publicly funded data is free. The rationale is that as taxpayers we have already paid for it. Our MOF is very clear about this – “there is zero tolerance for agencies not releasing publicly funded data”.
I understand that Australia is having a debate about whether open data is free or whether there should be a fee.
(These principles build on the first widely acknowledged principles of open data drawn up on December 7-8, 2007)
Open government data ctivities are wide-spread
Map shows the extent to which there is a well-resourced open government data initiative in 86 countries – not those in white.
Higher scores (darker colours on the map) indicate a well-resourced initiative, with strong political commitment. Australia and NZ are there.
Moving to what this means for data suppliers:
They must release data in open standard formats and licensed for legal re-use, and have certain and clear data update processes
They must also actively publicise what open data they have released so that users can find it easily
And government departments must focus on releasing the raw data, unless there is a strong business imperative for them to add value to the data.
Otherwise, third parties will add the value; it’s not government’s role.
Looking at the supply side – government agencies must be engaged:
Strategically aligned with government open data policy
Senior management engaged – policy reflected in business documents, eg. Long-term business plans
Releasing fully open data as business as usual
Therefore, highly connected with their users
Knowing what data is most used
Knowing what it is used for
Knowing what impact that use has had
Using that wisdom to drive their own business priorities and create efficiencies
Looking at what this means for data users:
High value data is what users want.
Data suppliers must have mechanisms for users to request data, plus a feedback capability
Different sectors may use different terms from ‘high-value’. For example, foundation spatial datasets could be high-value data, provided they were agreed in discussion with users, and not given that status by the suppliers. Likewise ‘fundamental” spatial data sets.
So, successful open data programmes engage with stakeholders directly or through data request mechanisms.
User demand for open data will vary, depending on the context , e.g. for commercial reasons, or for democratic reasons
There are 3 common requirements: agencies must have mechanisms for engaging with and listening to users, users need to know what is there, and users must demand what else they want to re-use.
And of course open data has no value until it is re-used.
So, looking at what open data means for society:
Outcomes/impact will differ
These were agreed in February by participants from 11 Asian countries .The outcome for them as developing countries was more open governments, broad collaboration by suppliers, including intermediaries, and ,therefore, empowered citizens
NZ, as a developed nation, has a more mature programme . Our first report promoting open government was released in 1980. So our programme goes beyond transparency to also expect economic and social outcomes, and greater efficiencies from the re-use of open data..
So, let’s look more closely at NZ’s Open Data programme.
There is political will . We have 3 Cabinet approved policy settings; annual progress to Cabinet; Active interest at senior cabinet level
Central government strategically aligned, with a data champion at executive level in all 32 government departments and many local government agencies and CRIs
Technical capacity and capability is improving
There is a licensing framework
Funding is primarily from baselines; with some club-funding of the OD programme
Realisation of impact is still at an early stage
Read out totals. All data is better than pdf format, but not enough APIs or web services.
Note that 2054 of the datasets are geospatial data.
Note that geographic boundary files have been added – in xls.
To view geographic boundaries, you need a geographic information system (GIS) installed. If you do not have a GIS, you can download software that can read these files
One indicator of open data implementation by the Global data barometer is release of 15 sets of open government data - clumped here to fit on the slide.
Now, I’ll show you some examples of NZ’s release of these datasets. We have released all of these, except the government contracts where we only scored 15%.
An alerts service using location data
Building our Footprints Competition
Engaged 38 students with geospatial technologies, and contributed to the Canterbury rebuild by capturing digital building footprint shapes for managing property data
Released under a CC license so it can be reused by interested parties, which so far includes Canterbury councils and OpenStreetMap
Nearly 20,000 building footprints were captured
Bringing together environmental data from central government, CRIs and local government for the general public. Currently data and info on fresh and beach water quality
And finally, apps created for better public services:
For fisherfolk and fishing inspectors
local marine rules and information
Setting out local facilities for travellers
We are pretty proud of our progress but must accelerate it. MOF expecting more.
Which means addressing challenges common to all open data programmes
We are writing up impact assessments in case studies. This is the first stage of our benefits realisation work.