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Improving Government through
Open Data and Open Engagement
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
Chisinau, Moldova [1a]
12 Mar 2012
@dirdigeng
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Open Data in Transparency
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Financial Transparency: Macro Level
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Financial Transparency: Transaction level
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Financial Transparency: Contract Level
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Fair-Play
Alliance
“Slovakia’s
Most Wanted
Watchdog”
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Financial Transparency: Contract Level
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Original text
of contract
“Rate this
contract”
Key details
and links
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Transparency promoting sustainability
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UK Coalition Government Transparency
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Expenditure
Senior staff salaries
Expenses
Contracts
Tenders
Organisation charts
Local service &
performance data
Meetings with lobbyists
Meetings with press
owners
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Open Data in Public Service
Transformation
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Better Information services to the public
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Transport, public
facilities and crime data
among most downloaded
Smartphone Apps
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Enabling others to mine data to improve
public outcomes
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Prescription data
Patient outcome
data
Longitudinal health
records
Pupil-level
education records
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Use data to compare and choose hospitals
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12+ Weeks
MRSA-free
Good C-Diff
record Low
Mortality
2 recent
MRSA
Blood
clots
Patient
ratings
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Open Data is a hub for civil engagement
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Crime: Data Engagement
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Local team
Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube ….
Local police
Twitter feed
How YOU
can get
involved
It’s very local
Accessible data on crime
Attract Inform Engage Action
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Working with Civil Society
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Citizen-sourced data
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Crowd-sourcing to improve official data
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Civil Society front-end to public services
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Data and Civic action 2.0
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“1.0” function
Crowdsource
Knowledge
Form groups
in civil society
Social
functionality
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Crowdsourcing Policy
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Crowd-sourcing efficiency cuts
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Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform
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40% of comments rated useful by agency
50% of regulations will be scrapped/changed
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Crowd-sourcing a city’s future
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Crowd-sourcing a constitution
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e-Petitions
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Road charging attracted 1.8m signatures
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and caused policy reversal
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Summary: Key International Learning Points
Open Data a key enabler
Important to grow open data “ecosystem” in
civil society
Design to Engage rather than just inform
Co-creation not consultation
Government must be prepared to listen and
act
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Questions?
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