Open DataOpen Government

Tim WilloughbyAssistant Director

LGMA

Open Government?

“If people don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong”

“Jim Hacker” Open Government (I980)

My name is Tim

I explain technology…

to people who don’t understand it…

people who think they do understand it…

people who despise it…

and people who worship it.

…that help people understand how technology might help their Organisation…

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I live here... According to Google Streetmaps

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I live in Naas…

• NAAS– Network as a Service

• Used to be a Nice place to shop!

So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government

1990s: lCT expected to make government more transparent, efcient and user oriented 2005+: disillusion as bureaucracy still in existenceCan Cloud Help?

Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

Do We Understand What the Citizen Wants?

Yes, but its not always cohesive

Local Government

Why would government look at Open Data

Sharing!

Local Government Evolution

Where Next…Open Data● What we are talking about is - ● Government As A Platform?

● Open Data is not the end..

● Cannot be – just for Open Data Sake...

● Open Data has to be part of the Day Job

Open is forcing Radical Change With or Without the Owners / Shareholders

So – What are we Doing

●Enterprise Ireland have set up Irish Cross National Working Group on Open Data

AcademiaLarge / Small BusinessCentral / Local / Semi-State Gov

●Fingal County Council – Open Fingal●Dublin County Councils - DubLinked

Cross Industry National Working Group

Addressing Prime 2, Opportunities for change, GeoDirectory, PRA

Security Surveillance, Privacy, Confidentiality,

Standards Protocol for Use, Governance, Adoption, Developments,

Enterprise Apps, Commercialisation, Economic Benefits, Education, Jobs Initiatives,

Citizenship What does the citizen want from Open Data?

Decisions

●Open Data week 7th Nov-12th Nov●All Government Tenders will reference Open Data●Paper for Government●It makes sense●Continue the Journey Together

10/3/11

open source / open datathe fix your street model

10/3/11

mobile apps – the new frontier of local government

10/3/11

Metered Water Application

FUTURE DOMESTIC WATER APPLICATION

10/3/11

from: physical, the (qr code), online source, & augmented reality

10/3/11

qr code to detailed further information

10/3/11

Social and Multi MediaResponding through innovation

It is all about the Data

2010 Spend on Spatial data and Software in the USA - IDC

IssuesData Harvesting

How / Why does data get into your system

Position, accuracy, improvement.

Data ManagementHow do we manage our data

Do we have to capture data more than once

Geo DataCosts of collection

Costs of Management

QualityData Quality

If we can’t trust the data to Share it, how do we use it to make decisions?

Data StandardsMost Adopting Standards from their software Supplier.Have to move away from this position!Open Standards

What do we aspire to…Real Life Standards

Its Hard for Governments to

experiment

Why Open Data?● More information might lead to more informed and beter

decisions – The Right to Knowledge…● Higher Quality?

● Open Source – More Eyes – Beter Systems…● Higher degree of effectiveness & efficiency● Strengthen trust in establishment● Leverage benefits of peer production● New business models

Why Not?● Loss of control & power?● Undermining of statutory Powers● Loss of revenues to existing business by threatening their

established business models● Only those with the Social Tools can benefit?● Fear of the unknown

FixYourStreetProgramme for GovernmentIn local services, we will establish a website – www.fixmystreet.ie – to assist residents in reporting problems with street lighting, drainage, graffiti, waste collection and road and path maintenance in their neighbourhoods, with a guarantee that local officials will respond within two working days.

Principles of FixYourStreet● Digitise everything Once.● Dynamic Data Capture● Open data● Open source

● Reduce the Barriers to Adoption

● Social Media is the Glue● There can only be one fixyourstreets

● One Front End

● More than one Back End?

● Taxonomy – We all call things the same

Semantic Web

Semantic Web

Adult HumourPolitical Insight

Current Affairs

SlapStickColours

Bart is FunnyHomer - Doh!

Pages as a Database

Cool Stuff for sale

Pages as a Database

Apps

Cloud Application

Data is hidden behind the Applications…

But yet not available in Linked Format…

What is the Solution?Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards

QR Codes for Public Participation

These are Small, Near… Far Away

Architecture Model for Open

Five level saturation model by Tim Berners-Lee★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

Conclusion

We can learn from the early adopters Key Challenges

Policies – Corporate culture – change management - refresh needed

Innovation by Design – Crowdsourcing internally and externally

Community engagement Sustainable resourcing Technology – Public Cloud / Open Source Standards Cross Industry Support