Jeff Kaplan - Consultant, ICT Unit, World Bank

Email: jeff@openesolutions.com Twitter: @jeffkaplan88

Open Government Data in Developing Countries: Kenya & MoldovaOctober 3, 2012

Moldova Joins Global Leaders in Open Data

• 16th national Open Data portal• 1st in Eastern Europe / CIS

But it’s not a portal-centric strategy...

Systematic Approach to Open Data in Moldova

AprilDec 10 - Mar 11 May June July Aug. Sept.

300downloads

187

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15,000

17

213

19,500

3,300

92115

4,000

Socializing open data among MD agencies;

pre-launch preparations

Sept 26Chisinau adopts

alerte.md

April 29Open Data Directive

July 15-16

May 25BOOST database

Released

Sept 20

April 15Apps Contest launches

67 datasets

5 agencies

April 15

19

243

20,400

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Portal anchored with key, high-value data sets: public expenditures database (BOOST) + data bank of National Bureau of Statistics

Sustainable pipeline of agency data sets driven by Open Data Directive

Over 20,000 downloads to date

18 public agencies have uploaded data onto data.gov.md

Investments in co-creation & apps development using open data paying off (alerte.md)

Highlights

Strong linkage between Open Data and national eTransformation Strategy, championed by Prime Minister for over 1 year.

Clear value add for World Bank’s catalytic role in early stages

Time invested in socializing open data created real ownership by MD agencies

Don’t waste time fighting resistence; find first mover agencies and move forward with them on open data

Leveraged portal success into whole-of-government Open Data Directive

Launch was well synchronised with co-creation events to generate apps and reuse of open data (Contest, TechCamp) partnering with private sectors + CSOs

Understood that promoting apps that meet agency priorities can result in more sustainable apps/e-services (e.g., alerte.md adopted by Chisinau)

Open data is, by design, part of effort to build an Open Innovation Ecosystem

Lessons Learned in Moldova (Pt. 1)

Lessons Learned in Moldova (Pt. 2)

Promoting reuse by targeting most valuable data sets (e.g., BOOST)

More data, more data, more data

APIs on data.gov.md to make data sets more usable for developers

Apps Store: data.gov.md needs to expand its apps offerings

Building Communities of Interest and Community of Practice around data

Greater investment in reuse & co-creation (Field of Dreams does not work)

Apps Innovation Fund

Approval of full Open Data Program

Hiring dedicated Manager for Open Data within eGC

Work in Progress:

Moldova’s Comprehensive Open Data Program

• Data.gov.md 2.0• Apps / e-services• Crowdsourced data

• Data.gov.md 2.0• Challengs/contests• Agency OGP Plans• Agency pilot projects• Local gov data

• Apps Innovation Fund• Challenges• Apps store - data.gov.md• Hackathons, Techcamps, etc• Visualizations/apps partnerships

Citizen Engagement

OpenData

Co-Creation &Innovation

CoreComponents

Infrastructure Policies Standards Data sets Technology (Cloud +)

Change Management Institutional Capacity

Moldova Open Data Program: Components

Moldova Open Data Program

Data.gov.md

Apps Innovation

FundCo-CreationActivitiesOpen Data

DashboardsOpen Data

LicenseOGD

Manual Citizen.md

DecNov.2011

Jan 2012 Feb Mar April May

Approval ofOpen Data Program

Open Data License

Individual AgencyOpen Data Plans

OGP Best Practices Manual 2.0

Agency Data Inventories

Local Gov Dataon Data.gov.md

Open Data Dashboards & Perf Indicators

Moldova Open Data Program: Next Steps

Data.gov.md 2.0Data.gov.md 3.0

Open Data Lessons for Developing Countries (Pt. 1)

Small developer community? Enables Gov to really partner with local developer community

Few IT professionals within gov? Real ROI from encouraging others to use your data to build services/apps. And they will do it faster, cheaper, more innovatively.

Hard to convince entire gov to open data? Identify first movers ... And move forward with them. Others will catch up (by mandate or pressure).

Little budget resources? Target partnerships with others willing to contribute with code, promotion, even funding.

Take advantage of your “disadvantages”

High mobile penetration

Promote development of mobile apps using open data

Visible, high-level political support

Push open data on whole-of-government basis

Large talent pool of developers (or small but active community)

Identify data they want most and release it as open data

Open Data Lessons for Developing Countries (Pt. 2)

Take advantage of your advantages