The Open Data Institute, founded in 2012 by key figures in open data, aims to promote open data as essential for reproducibility in policy-making. The document outlines the importance of open participation, informed debate, and community engagement in policy decisions, while acknowledging the complexities and limitations of reproducibility. It emphasizes the benefits of open data, including enhanced public engagement, improved services, and increased transparency.

1. Ellen Broad – Policy Lead – @ellenbroad – ellen.broad@theodi.org
Reproducibility in policy

2. Open Data Institute
• Founded October 2012
• by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt &
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Independent institute
• global network
• innovation unit

3. We will catalyse an
environment of open data,
to create economic, social
& environmental value.
ODI Mission Statement

4. Open data – data that anyone
can access, use and share - is
a key element of
reproducibility

5. What does reproducibility
in policy look like?

6. http://london-fire.labs.theodi.org/
Open, Informed Participation

7. Open data and policy
Decision making informed by data
Open participation in policymaking
informed debate
Active engagement with community
actively encouraging data use
encouraging them to publish

8. Open “other stuff”
Policy modelling
Discussion papers
Minutes of internal discussions
Details of submissions
Advisory Groups

9. http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-app-part-1/
Innovative Uses of Data

10. The limits of reproducibility in
policy making

11. Policy can be messy
Sir
Humphrey,
Yes
Minister:
“I
have
served
11
governments
in
the
past
30
years.
If
I'd
believed
in
all
their
policies,
I'd
have
been
passionately
commi=ed
to
keeping
out
of
the
Common
Market,
and
passionately
commi=ed
to
joining
it.
I'd
have
been
u=erly
convinced
of
the
rightness
of
naConalising
steel
and
of
denaConalising
it
and
renaConalising
it.
Capital
punishment?
I'd
have
been
a
fervent
retenConist
and
an
ardent
aboliConist.
I'd
have
been
a
Keynesian
and
a
Friedmanite,
a
grammar
school
preserver
and
destroyer,
a
naConalisaCon
freak
and
a
privaCsaCon
maniac
…”

12. The “reproduce” in
reproducibility makes me
nervous…

13. Open data: the big picture
New discoveries, new business models
Social environmental improvements
Increased public engagement
Improved public services
Transparency and accountability

14. Ellen Broad – Policy Lead – @ellenbroad – ellen.broad@theodi.org