Dataas an engine for change

Antonio AcuñaHead of data.gov.ukCabinet Office@diabulos

Open Data: Raw data available with no limitations on its use by third parties

Why? The potential for use is larger when everyone has access to it

One of the largest crowdsourcing experiments ever

http://prescribinganalytics.com/

 £200 million pounds in savings for the NHS

Data is not just the domain of

experts…It needs context

Open Data provides an opportunity to rethink how government captures and manages data

Provides a series of ‘healthy’ protocols for internal production/consumption

Interoperability, standardised open formats, metadata, taxonomy and vocabularies

out what you have and its condition

Find

www.data.gov.uk

http://standards.data.gov.uk/

How does it inform policy?

Quick ‘local’ work with data to answer questions we did not know we had

http://data.gov.uk/data/viz/investment-readiness-programme

New ways to handle our data

Vocabularies call it the same everywhere

Metadata, metadata, metadata

Quality is our number one priority

Thank you