Local and National Government

Open Data across Europe

Gesche Schmid

Programme Manager Transparency, LGA

Cambridge, 26 September 2012

Gesche.schmid@local.gov.uk

• Opening Up :

• Open and social ways to transform government

• Opening local government organisations and

businesses to new opportunities to develop

innovative services through the use of open data

and to encourage smart use of social media.

• EU funded Programme covering the North Sea

region of Europe. http://www.opening-up.eu/;

• Hashtag for the day #OpeningUp

North Sea Region:

Opening Up Partner organisations

• Intercommunale Leiedal, Kortrijk, Belgium

• Groningen municipality, Netherlands

• Hoeje-Traastrup municipality, Denmark

• Karlstad municipality, Sweden

• Hanze University, Groningen, Netherlands

• Porism Limited, representing esd-toolkit, UK

• Lessius University, Mechlen, Belgium

Opening Up ObjectivesInclude new

social media

channels in European

Service List Spearhead the

adoption and use

of open data

Integrate social media

into government and

business service delivery

Accredited

training programme

on social media

Build a community

of practitioners

in the NSRMeasure an

organisations capacity

to use social media

Develop transformational

citizen-led services

through the use

of social media

Opening Up

Janet Hughes, 18 September 2012 about Lambeth

http://www.egovmonitor.com/2012/09/18/lambeth-demonstrates-power-of-open-data-

for-policy-and-decision-making

“Open data shouldn't only be

accessible to software developers, statisticians and accountants.

As more and more open public data is released, we need to find ways to

make sure it is useful for people

who want to make a difference in

their local area. ”

Open data in local government in

England

• Open by default

• Open data to meet

– Transparency,

– Economic growth

– Social and environmental well being

– Efficiencies and improved services

• Meet local demands and needs

• Diverse, flexible, innovative, engaging, serving

• One size does not fit all

Spending data:

Body Name Body Name Amount Pay Date Description 1

Bristol City Council http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB@SYMES HARTCLIFFE & WITHYWOOD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP590 30/08/2012 EMPLOYEE TRAINING COSTS

Bristol City Council http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB@SYMES HARTCLIFFE & WITHYWOOD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP962.5 16/08/2012 EMPLOYEE TRAINING COSTS

Bristol City Council http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB10 SQUARED LIMITED 922.5 29/08/2012 EQUIPMENT, FURNITU

Hills are Evil:Identifies areas where wheelchair users can easily get around in Bristol. Mobile Bristol in collaboration between Bristol City Council, Media Sandbox and University of Bristol

Today we aim to

• demonstrate practical achievements and challenges – What we can we do with Open Data– Why we need Open Data

• explore the possibilities, legalities and technical skills needed in using Open Data under two broad themes: – the challenges faced by government in making

data available for use by other governments, citizens and businesses

– the challenges businesses, citizens and municipalities face in using open data to improve and streamline access to services

Agenda

Lunch12:50

Open data in a GIS-perspective

Bjorgulf Torjussen, Norway

12:30

Open data as an operating model in the public sectorJohn Sheridan, Head of Legislation Services at The National Archives

12:10

The use of open data in Ghent and the Ghent App ContestBart Rouseau, Head of Communication Strategy of the City of Ghent.

Opportunities and risks: the freedom of information and data

protection implications of open dataSteve Wood, Head of Policy Delivery, Information Commissioner’s

Office, UK

11:30

11:50

Refreshments11.15

Standards in UK & Progress

Paul Davidson, Local eGovernment Standards Body, UK

10:55

State of Play

Mike Thacker, Porism Ltd, OUP Partner

10:35

The LOD2 project and the life-cycle of Linked Data on the Web

Sören Auer

10:20

Keynote – Position in UK / EU

Andrew Stott

10.00

Afternoon Agenda: Use of data

Close15.45

Summary by chair, Dr Gesche Schmid15:30

Refreshments on the go!!

Marketplace of ideas. A place to show their projects and discuss

ideas!!

14:45

14:45

Top 20-datasets-to-goPaul Suijkerbuijk, Project leader of Dutch open data site

14:30

Practical examples of use of Open DataStuart Harrison, Lichfield District Council

14:15

Examples of making sense of data

Frank Willems, Hanze University, Netherlands

14:00

Open Knowledge Foundation co-founder Rufus Pollock

13:45

Market Place

• City of Ghent : Bart Rosseau

• Effective service delivery (esd) toolkit: Nicki Gill

• Groningen Hanze and Mechlen Lessius Universities: Marijke Lemal

• Information Commissioner’s Office: Katie Johnson

• Intercommunale Leiedal – Opening Up project: JeroenThibaut

• LGA Knowledge Hub: Michael MacCauley

• LG Inform: Tim Adams

• Linked Open Data 2 project / Open Knowledge Foundation: Mark Wainwright