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Open Data for Economic and Social Development: Why Government Should Care
1. Open Data for Economic and Social Development: Why Government Should Care
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
Senior Consultant,
World Bank
Istanbul
17 Sep 2014
@dirdigeng
andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
2. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government
3. Clarity about objectives
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More Efficient Government
More Transparent Government
Improved public services
New Economic and Social Value
4. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government
7. Evidence base for EU Open Data Directive
Open Gov Data in EU would
‒increase business activity by up to €40 Bn/yr
‒have total benefits up to €140 Bn/yr
Open Data was reused 10x-100x more than charged-for data
Lowering charges may attract new types of re- users, in particular SMEs.
Costs appear to increase very little: in fact, they may eventually decrease
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All economic analysis and case studies point the same way
14. $930m business from Open Data
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Weather for 1m points
60 years of crop yield data
14 TB of soil data
Company formed in 2006
Sold to Monsanto October 2013 for $930m cash
24. Data Imperialism?
~80% of the benefit goes to a country’s data end-users – citizens, businesses, visitors, investors
~½ of the business value chain is intrinsically local (10% of total benefit)
Therefore only 10% of total benefit is internationally contestable
Worst case: country get 90% of the potential benefit from their data
Best case: early-movers get to steal neighbours’ lunch as well
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25. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government
26. Performance of individual hospitals
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12+ Weeks MRSA-free
Good C-Diff record
Low Mortality
2 recent
MRSA
Blood clots
Patient
ratings
28. Uganda: Open Data and Community Health Monitoring
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33% reduction in under-5 mortality
20% extra utilisation of out-patient services
Significant improvements in:
Immunization
Waiting times
Absenteeism
30. Open Data used to drive Citizen 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
32. Push-back from professions
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http://bma.org.uk/news-views-analysis/news/2013/june/consultants-face-online-rating
33. “We welcome this in principle but ….” (1)
‘Some consultants may take on higher risk cases that would lead to raised mortality rates’
‘Some patients could have multiple health problems’
‘Most consultants work in teams.’
‘Patients’ experiences are obviously highly subjective’
‘A range of factors can affect the feedback they provide’
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34. “We welcome this in principle but ….” (2)
‘Different ways of working make it harder to gather meaningful data for patients’
‘It is critical that any information provided is accurate and in context.’
Whereas there are ways of comparing performance in some specialties, such as cardiothoracic surgery, in other areas it is much harder.
‘It will be misleading and cause unnecessary anxiety to patients.’
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35. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government
37. Politicians start to get nervous ….
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http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-crooked-american-politicians.php
38. It’s hard to uncover major issues
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Input
•285,000 records
•1.17m rows of data
•PDF documents Findings
•$34bn spent in 8 years
•Aid increased 1,965%
•20 companies benefited most
45. Policy Objectives of Open Data
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New Economic and Social Value
Improved public services
More Transparent Government
More Efficient Government
46. Government can be an Open Data user too
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Greater Manchester estimated £6.5m savings from finding and using its own data more easily
47. EU Inspire Directive on Geospatial Data
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One Government reported fiscal ROI 8:1 in first 4 years, plus wider benefits
48. British Columbia Open Data
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Government itself is #1 user of its data
33% of downloads come from within BC Government
49. Data Quality
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Release of data will reveal issues of data quality
Surprisingly little criticism
Celebrate greater checking of data!
Use as stimulus to
Measure
Prioritise
Improve
52. It’s not just about new data
Opening new data is hard.
So includes data previously “published” but
in non-reusable format
with restricted licence
only aimed at specialist groups
only for payment
only in response to requests
difficult to find
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data.gov.uk contains a lot of data which nobody knew was already published
53. Handling the concerns of data owners
“People hug their database, they don't want to let it go. You have no idea the number of excuses people come up with to hang onto their data and not give it to you, even though you've paid for it as a taxpayer.”
– Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
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54. Still everyone thought that they were an exception
It’s held separately by n different organisations, and we can’t join it up
It will make people angry and scared without helping them
It is technically impossible
We do not own the data
The data is just too large to be published and used
Our website cannot hold files this large
We know the data is wrong
We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where it is wrong
We know the data is wrong, and we will waste valuable resources inputting the corrections people send us
People will draw superficial conclusions from the data without understanding the wider picture
People will construct league tables from it
It will generate more Freedom of Information requests
It will cost too much to put it into a standard format
It will distort the market
Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc extract
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55. Handling reasons for exceptions
Most reasons are valid in some contexts
The reasons quoted are not necessarily the real ones, just plausible-sounding ones
No-one likes to be told that they are wrong
Disproving one reason may just provoke a different reason
No-one likes to be told that they are wrong again and again
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56. Better to work with the data owner
What are the risks?
How could they be mitigated?
How could remaining risks be managed?
Would it be less risky if
‒Some records were removed?
‒Some fields were removed?
Let’s focus on what can be opened
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