Presentation to Civil Society at the University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad on 28 February 2015 by the World Bank to civil society representatives including those from the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society

1. Open Data: T&T Readiness Assessment
Andrew Stott
Senior Consultant
World Bank
UWI
28 February 2015
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

2. Open Data: What’s the idea?
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6. What is Open Data?
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Open data is
data
that can be
freely
used,
reused
and redistributed
by anyone
for any purpose.

7. Why?
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8. Main Uses of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

9. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

10. OpenlyLocal: a dashboard for each City
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11. The emergence of data-driven journalism
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12. Is My Money Being Spent Well?
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14. Transparent and Accountable Government
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15. Contracts: A great example from Slovakia
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
Original text
of contract
from Gov
website
“Rate this
contract”
Key details
and links
Fair-Play
Alliance

16. Do officials turn off their lights at night?
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17. International Corporate Transparency
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18. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government

19. Performance of individual hospitals
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20. Schools

21. Irene Choge, data journalist, NTV, Kenya.
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22. The Health Assignment: Toilets and Grades
22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58R2yNQtio

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24. Disaster Risk Management
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25. Performance of local police and courts
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26. “Police.uk is a success story”
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“I am constantly afraid of becoming a victim of
crime, but this website has made me more
relaxed now that I know what has happened
and where. Crimes are not quite as rife in my
area as I imagined. I also feel that I have some
sort of link now with my local police. Well done”
“
“Local information for interest, and
details of who my local officers are. It's
good to feel involved and informed. I
think this will help us all take more
responsibility for our own areas”
“The new 'Draw Your Own
Area' function is a vast
improvement which will
allow regular comparisons
to be made about an entire
town or village.”
“It's just great to have the
transparency because it will
encourage me and others to report
crime because the result of doing so
is now visual rather than notional.”
Site feedback: 70% of respondents
agree website is easy to use whilst
66% agree information is easy to
understand
Over 56 million
visits since
January 2011
33% of adults
aware of and 11%
have used the
site
2/3 of users say
they’ll return to
the site to see if
crime goes up
and down
2/5 of users say
they’re now more
likely to take
steps to improve
their personal
safety£300,000 set-up, £150,000/year to run

27. Open Data used to drive Citizen Engagement
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Local team
Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube ….
Local police
Twitter feed
How YOU
can get
involved
It’s very local
Accessible data on crime
Attract Inform Engage Action

28. Open Data provides a hub for civil
engagement
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29. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
• A tool developed by the World Bank to help
prioritize actions in an Open Data Program.
• A rapid assessment to identify where
interventions can most effectively applied.
• A tool designed to support an economical and
action-oriented assessment of the readiness of a
national government to evaluate, design, and
implement an Open Data Program.

30. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
What is?
- Diagnostic and planning
tool
- Recommendations for
action based on best
practices
- Start of a robust and
consultative dialogue
among relevant
stakeholders
- Beginning of a process
- ‘Living’ document
What is NOT?
- Measurement tool
- Formal evaluation
exercise
- Successful and
sustainable Open Data
Program
- The end or result of a
process

31. The Eight Critical Factors
for Successful Open Data

32. Leadership
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33. Policies & Legal
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34. Government Institutional Structures &
Skills for Data
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35. Data within Government
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36. Demand for Open Data from Civil Society
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37. Open Data Ecosystem
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38. Financing
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39. Technology Infrastructure & Skills
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40. Datasets examined this week
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Tourism
Energy
Environment
Contracts
Census
Education
Budget
Crime
Payments
Land
Statistics
Weather
Elections
Aviation
Prices
UWI
Health
Labour
Arts Events
Agriculture
Company
Imports
Roads
Arts Sudsidy
Youth
Library
Maps

41. Issues we would like to discuss
 What are the top social/community issues for
you?
 What data would help you on these?
 What do you/would you do with it?
 How easy/difficult is it to get data currently?
 What experiences have you have with the
Freedom of Information Act? Has it helped?
 What happens when you try?
 How would you like access to data to work?
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42. Discussion
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43. End
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