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

andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

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”

Financial Transparency: Contract Level

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Original text

of contract

“Rate this

contract”

Key details

and links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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End

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