Public Health Organisations and Open Data

Open Data, What and Why…

National PHO CIO and IT Manager Group 19 October 2015

- Paul Stone- New Zealand Open Government Data Programme

What is open data and information?◦ Brief description of open government data policies and

the programme

“Shared Data” vs “Open Data”

Some innovative re-use of open government data

Your questions

Agenda

“Open data is data that anyone can access, use and share.”(Open Data Institute https://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data)

For NZ Government… licensed for legal re-use (NZGOAL) Non-proprietary and machine-readable

format

What is “open data”?

Foundations for Open Government Data and Information

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Data.govt.nz

Open Government

NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) Framework

Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply Creative Commons licences or no-known rights statements to information, data and content, published digitally or in hardcopy.Copyright = ownershipLicence = permissions to re-use (assigned by the copyright owner)Training videos at https://goo.gl/aFBU9W

NZ Data and Information Management Principles

• Open• Protected• Readily available• Trusted and authoritative• Well managed• Reasonably priced (“…expected to be

free”)• Reusable

NZ Data and Information Management Principles

• Reusable o at source, with the highest possible level of

granularity

o in re-usable, machine-readable format

o with appropriate metadata; and

o in aggregate or modified forms if they cannot be released in their original state.

NZ Declaration on Open and Transparent Government, 2011

Government direction to government agencies to proactively release all:

• publicly funded data• non-personal and unclassified• high potential value for re-use• managed according to the Principles• licensed for re-use (NZGOAL)• published on Data.govt.nz

Our job to encourage all that to happen!

To encourage and support the release of data and information

To understand the user communities (and raise awareness)

To assess the impact of re-use

The Programme

It is expected that open data will lead to:

Increased social and economic benefits (through new products and services)

Increased efficiencies Increased transparency and democracy

So, why?

First, let’s look at the difference between “open data” and “shared data”…

Video:https://vimeo.com/125783029

So, can Health Data be Open?

Raw transactional data should only be shared under “trust and control” – ie. shared

Transactional data that has been anonymised and/or aggregated can be made open

Statistics NZ are experts and can provide training

Open vs Shared Data

Shared data may lead to saving an individual’s life

Open data may lead to policy that saves many lives

Open vs Shared Data

LifeHackLabs

LifeHack Labs – deprivation/self-harm correlation

Significantly higher admissions to hospital as a result of self-harm in relatively well off areas – unexpected…

Mogeo - Campermate

ATM Finder

What about being able to find public health facilities…?

Here Maps

“allowing the public to search and navigate to any of your facilities with ease.”

Main provider of maps for:• car navigation

systems• Facebook• Microsoft• Samsung• Amazon• Yahoo• Garmin

Mogeo – Product Recalls

ThunderMaps

The delivery mechanism already exists

All that is needed is the open data…

What about Health Alerts???

Open by design = closed by design(Different mindsets but really just 2 sides of the same coin)

Open by Design

ContactProgramme:opendata@linz.govt.nz

http://www.ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government

Short Case Studies:http://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/case-studies/open-data

Me:pstone@linz.govt.nz@enotsluap