making transparency work for you 2014

web: www.locality.org.uk email: info@locality.org.uk tel: 0845 458

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Harnessing Open Data to Nurture a Digital Civil

Society

Annemarie Naylor

Associate Director

Locality

Our members are:• Independent• Led by local people• Driving social change• Trading for community benefit• Developing community assets

About Us

The technological disruption that transformed the music industry a decade ago is fast impacting health, employment and education services. Our high streets are endeavouring to withstand the combined pressures of austerity and a burgeoning internet economy, such that local authorities are struggling to breathe new life into regeneration plans and stem the tide of vacant shops. Meanwhile, rural areas clamour for improved connectivity to halt the flight of young adults to our soon-to-be ‘smart cities’, and with 90% of jobs set to require e-skills within five years, those excluded communities already ‘left behind’ by the digital revolution face worsening employment prospects still over the years to come.

The Challenge (1) – Operating Context

• Localism – focus on ‘traditional community assets’

• Opening Public Services – diseconomies of scale, aggregating small data

• Digital by Default (?) – health, education, employment

• Assisted Digital – confidence, knowledge and skills

• “What Works” / Impact Investment – evidence-based policy, commissioning and payment mechanisms

The Challenge (2) - Policy

• Beneficiary Intelligence – data capture systems, data protection, public sector end user licenses

• Experience – annual reports, accounts, grant monitoring, contract reporting, campaigning and fundraising databases

• Knowledge: what open data would be helpful / is being made available, where can it be accessed, how can it be requested

• Understanding/Expertise: how to analyse/interpret open data

• Digital Enterprise (by and for communities): where to begin…

The Challenge (3) – Practice

The Opportunity

The Opportunity (1) - Ethos

The Permanent Culture Now website and content by Stephen Jones, Michael Thomas

• ODI, ODUG & the OGP• DCLG’s Revised Transparency Code• Publicly owned assets data • Procurement & Contracting Data• Open Data for Neighbourhood Planning• Charity Commission, CIC Regulator, Companies House

• Funders, Social Investors & Contracting Bodies

The Opportunity (2) - Practice

https://www.communityinsight.org/http://neighbourhoodplanner.org.uk/

http://www.ourdigitalcommunity.org/

http://okcast.org/

• Awareness Raising – emphasising the benefits of open data to stimulate interest amongst community organisations

• Accessing & Analysing Open Data in Local Communities – is there a role here for local libraries?

• Commercial Sensitivities & Data Coops – what will you do, what did you achieve and not HOW did you do it

• Investing in and Showcasing Digital Social Enterprises

Virtual Food for Thought…

USEFUL LINKS

www.locality.org.uk

http://www.mycommunityrights.org.uk/ http://planning.communityknowledgehub.org

.uk/

www.theplacestation.org.uk www.buildingcalculator.org.uk

http://www.ourdigitalcommunity.org/http://www.commonlibraries.cc/