open cook county plan strategic vision april 2011 www. cookcountyil.gov/opening-cook-county.ppt
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Open Cook County Plan
Strategic visionApril 2011
www. cookcountyil.gov/opening-cook-county.ppt
What is open government?
• Open government is making data accessible to the public in a usable format so citizens can make government better
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What is government 2.0?
A definition from Stephen Goldsmith, former Mayor of Indianapolis and current Deputy Mayor of New York City for Operations:
•0.5 is putting information online
•1.0 is an electronic way to fill out a form
•1.5 is providing citizens with ways to complain to government about an issue
•2.0 is creating platforms for citizens to collaborate around information to improve outcomes
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Why should we open government?
Opening government:
• Increases public trust
• Makes government more responsive, efficient, effective and fair
• Breaks down silos within and across agencies
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Cook County’s transparency problem
Many residents don’t know what County government is or what it does
Many residents don’t know how their tax dollars are collected or spent
Historical lack of transparency means many local citizen activists are disengaged and
cynical
Lack of transparency breeds doubt, skepticism, inefficiency and corruption
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The ordinance is Step 1 in our plan to bring open government to Cook County
1: Ordinance
Cook County’s open data ordinance
begins making data public. Agency heads partner with Board
President and Commissioners to make initial high-value data sets
public.
2: Data portal
County launches a single-site portal
centralizing data in developer-friendly
formats. Data offerings
continuously expand.
3: App contests and data camps
County encourages developers and
activists to drive new and improved
government services through mobile apps
and data visualizations.
4: Continuous improvement
County expands data offerings, provides ongoing incentives for developers and
activists and opens a conversation about
improving our government.
Click on a button to learn more about each step
Timeline
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Step 1: Cook County’s open government ordinance
Ordinance to be filed in April
Click on a button to learn more (requires internet connection)
• This ordinance formalizes our open government plan and changes the County’s data bias from private to public
• County leaders built our ordinance using model legislation from other municipalities like San Francisco and King County, Washington
• Our ordinance considers best principles of open data, as well as the model of President Obama’s Federal Directive and the Local Open Government Directive created by representatives from Code for America, the Sunlight Foundation and others
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SF’s ordinance
King County’s ordinance
Other model
legislation
8 Open data
principles
Federal Open Gov Directive
Local Open Gov Directive
Step 2: Cook County’s open data portal
County portal will arrive soon
Click on a button to learn more (requires internet connection)
• The County will create a single-site data portal that centralizes new and existing public data sets in machine-readable, developer-friendly formats
• Our portal will build on the success of open data portals in other municipalities, such as New York City, San Francisco and Washington, DC
• Our portal will build on the success of the federal open data portal: www.data.gov
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NYC’s portal
SF’s portal
DC’s portal
Federal portal: Data.gov
Step 3: App contests and data camps
Click on a button to learn more (requires internet connection)
• In open government municipalities, data-enabled developers and activists have revolutionized government services using mobile apps
• We will encourage and incentivize activists to find inefficiencies and to visualize data in ways that contribute to the policy conversation
• We will encourage and incentivize developers and activists to help us make our government better using contests, data camps and other programs
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Step 4: Continuous improvement
• Open government is a growing, maturing movement
• We will begin a running conversation with local thought leaders and activists to identify ways to improve our government and to bring new and more meaningful data to the public
• Chicago’s developing technology cluster, anchored by companies like Groupon and Everyblock, drives leading developers and open government thinkers to Cook County
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March-April 2011 Summer 2011 2012 Beyond
Enact open data
ordinance
Host launch party/
App contest
Continue fostering developer community through data camps, and
contests and conferences
Partner with vendor to create single-site data portal
Use resulting information to improve government efficiency, effectiveness
and fairness
Invest County data
ownersExpand public data offerings
The timelineWe can rapidly transform Cook County
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