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Open Data at Locate15 Conference 11 march 2015
- 1. - Keitha Booth NZOpen 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
- 3. We all usedata in our daily lives
- 4. Some use dataor content illegally
- 5. We participate ingovernment in different ways
- 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 DataAgenda-Setting Workshop 2015 Open Government Data Initiatives
- 8. Open data supplymust be regular and long- term
- 9. This needs engagedgovernment agencies
- 10. What people wantto use is high value data
- 11. This needs engagedusers
- 12. More open governments Strongermulti-sectoral collaborations on open data Empowered citizens who use and benefit from open data Asia 2020
- 13. Economic growth •New business & employment •Newtools, 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
- 14. Political - Yes Organisational- Yes Technical – Good progress Legal - Yes Economic and Social – early days
- 17. Elections; legislation National statistics; maps; environmental reporting Companyand land registers Budget and budget spend Public transport timetables Health and schools sectors performance; crime statistics Government contracts
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- 30. Funding Commercialisation vs publicgood Loss of revenue Demand exceeding capacity to make data available Organisational capability Technical capability Assessing impact Maturity level
- 32. Regional Open DataAgenda-Setting Workshop 2015 Open data is hot in New Zealand
- 33. Open data allowslegal 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
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Editor's Notes
- #3 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
- #4 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
- #5 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.
- #6 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.
- #7 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)
- #8 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.
- #9 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.
- #10 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
- #11 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.
- #12 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.
- #13 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
- #14 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..
- #15 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
- #16 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.
- #17 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
- #18 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%.
- #24 An alerts service using location data
- #25 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
- #26 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
- #28 And finally, apps created for better public services: For fisherfolk and fishing inspectors
- #29 local marine rules and information
- #30 Setting out local facilities for travellers
- #31 We are pretty proud of our progress but must accelerate it. MOF expecting more. Which means addressing challenges common to all open data programmes
- #32 We are writing up impact assessments in case studies. This is the first stage of our benefits realisation work.