Anti Corruption Training: open data as a policy instrument

#opendata as policy instrument in local and regional government

Experiences from the Netherlands

UNDP Webinar, 10 February 2016

Ton Zijlstra, @ton_zylstra, http://thegreenland.eu

• In open data since 2008 (longer in open gov)

• Co-founder of The Green Land, thegreenland.eu

• Across Europe, based in Netherlands

• At local, national and EU level

• Senior expert World Bank (Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazachstan, Serbia, Malaysia)

• Activist in my hometown on open data and IoT

our immediate living environment

value, efficiency, impact

reasoning from where impact is wanted

(policy) issue

stakeholders open data

new actors (500 apps, 5k people, TfL stopped)

value, efficiency, impact

open data as enabler for people around issues

(policy) issue

stakeholders open data

OPEN data

openDATAvs

serious issues

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ThemesPolicy goals

#pnhslim

Datasets Publishing

Stake-holders Meet-ups

Re-use

ThemesPolicy goals

#pnhslim

Datasets Publishing

Stake-holders Meet-ups

Re-use

André Kapitein Smartsensors.me

www.smartsensors.me

Rebecca Karsters ‘t Schaapie Kinderopvang contact@hetschaapie.nl www.hetschaapie.nl

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Lex Hendriksen Gemeente Haarlem

ahendriksen@haarlem.nl www.haarlem.nl

Frank Verschoor The Green Land frank@thegreenland.eu www.thegreenland.eu

B’oost

Medemblik

http://openspending.nl

reasoning from impact, deploy open data as intervention

https://www.noord-holland.nl/web/Projecten/NoordHolland-Slimmer/Toolbox-Open-Data.htm

data as interaction with the public

maps.amsterdam.nl

#pnhslim

citydashboard.waag.org

data as interaction with the public

http://www.provinciegroningen.nl/objecten

open data as primary channel

open data training for 50 people in Utrecht

value, efficiency, impact

open data as enabler for people around issues

(policy) issue

stakeholders open data

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working directly on their current tasks

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/driek/2938311931

internally addressing data holder concerns

“Involve all stakeholders asap, and create an equal information position”

value, efficiency, impact

building the triangle

(policy) issue

stakeholders open data

Our common

‘problem owners’, ppl with tech skills,

under represented getting or creating

Networked life, networked work, networked learning

know the gov does not exist. find 1 civil servant

finding the guy in the blue shirt

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budgetmonitoring.nl

getting & understanding the data, visible stakeholders

‘do’ data

‘know’datavs

• Pick a living issue

• Building relationships matters most

• Getting / using data is enabler of relationships

• Using data provides new agency to ‘new’ stakeholders

• Costs are time and effort mostly, money much less relevant

Thank you!

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