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Presentation at Botswana Innovation Hub in Gaborone on 7 August 2013
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Developing an Open Data initiative:
Lessons Learned
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
Senior Consultant, World Bank
Gaborone, Botswana
07 Aug 2013 v0.2
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
The first 3 years of data.gov.uk
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Over 9300 datasets
37 GB of geo data
Public Data Principles
Open Government
Licence
Transparency of
salaries, spending,
contracts and tenders
Four site versions, each
in response to user
feedback
UK Government Transparency Data
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For every central Ministry
and regional/city council:-
Expenditure
Senior staff salaries
Expenses
Official credit cards
Contracts
Tenders
Organisation charts
Local service &
performance data
Meetings
Leadership throughout the Organisation
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Top-level political leadership essential
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“Public information does not belong to Government, it belongs to the public.”
“Greater transparency will enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account”
Demand from business and citizens
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Also important to have passionate team!
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Policies & Legal
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Clear, common, licensing approach
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Standards
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Make sure data is re-usable
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Data Publishing – Star Quality
Put your data on the Web with an
Open Licence (any format)
Make it available as structured data
(e.g. Excel, CSV, instead of PDF)
Use open, standard formats (e.g.
XML, RDF)
Use URLs to identify things (so
people and machines can point at
your data)
Link your data to other people’s data
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Ease
of
reu
se
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Ensure Privacy of Personal Data
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Data within Government
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Focus on data on things that people care about
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It’s not just about new data
Scope for “Open Data” also includes data
previously “published” but …
in non-reusable format
with restricted licence
only aimed at specialist groups
only for payment
only in response to requests
difficult to find
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data.gov.uk contains a lot of data which
nobody knew was already published
Handling the concerns of data owners
“People hug their database, they don't want to
let it go. You have no idea the number of
excuses people come up with to hang onto
their data and not give it to you, even though
you've paid for it as a taxpayer.”
– Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html 18
Release data people want
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Manage expectations, prepare for mistakes
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“We’re making a small start next
week. But eventually, it’s going to
make a big difference.”
“The information we’re publishing
next week won’t be perfect, and
I’m sure there’ll be some mistakes.
But I want to get on with it.”
UK Prime Minister 29 May 2010
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Deliver incrementally
Not all Government data is accurate
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Data Quality
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Release of data
will reveal issues
of data quality
Celebrate greater
checking of data!
Use as stimulus to
Measure
Prioritise
Improve
Using citizens to help improve data
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Promote Use of Data
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Recognise success
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Create “Heroes” of totemic data releases
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Create “Heroes” of agencies who give data
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.. and “Heroes” among developers too
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Creating Sustainable Applications
Sustainable apps come from social
entrepreneurs – helped by geeks
Do things that matter to people
Make it quick and easy to do – “while you’re still
upset about it”
Make effective use of email
Use location: input and visualisation
Build in community support, action & stickiness
Use simple design 30
Open Data Ecosystem
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Photos: @memespring,
@MadLabUK, @paul_clarke
Continuously engage with developers
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UK Open Data Institute
Develop capability of UK
businesses to exploit value of
Open Data
Engage developers/small
businesses to build Open Data
supply chains and commercial
outlets
Help public sector use its own
data more effectively
Ensure academic research in
Open Data technologies 33
UK Open Data Institute
Running 9 months
£200m/yr savings identified
5 startups incubated, 6 courses launched,
4 hackathons
27 private-sector company paying members
Over £2m of private sector funding secured
in 6 mths
1,500 visitors to London space – and
provides “neutral meeting space” for
government and entrepreneurs
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Measure!
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Measure achievement
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Measure delivery and conformance
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It’s not (just) an IT project!
CIOs can give leadership, but
CIOs/IT Directors often do not “own” the data
Key issues are business, policy and politics:
don’t let policy makers brand it as “just IT”
Keep the IT simple
‒ use Open Source (CKAN, Drupal, etc)
‒ use existing contracts/infrastructure with niche firms
‒ host data on existing websites or on public Cloud
Use revealed legacy data quality issues as
spur for improvement
‒ not as an excuse for doing nothing 38
… and the biggest lesson of all
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Overcome obstacles
practically
by doing,
not debating
Discussion?
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End
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