1. Open Government: The Road Ahead
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
@dirdigeng
Chisinau, Moldova andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
16 May 2012

2. The Road Ahead
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3. First: where have we come from?
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4. UK: “Liberty” speech – Oct 2007
 “Government belongs to
the people, not the
politicians.”
 “Public information does
not belong to
Government, it belongs to
the public.”
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5. US: Day 1 Memo on Open Government
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6. UK: Coalition Government Transparency
Expenditure
Senior staff salaries
Expenses
Contracts
Tenders
Organisation charts
Public service
performance 6

7. Financial Transparency: Macro Level
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8. Financial Transparency: Transaction level
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9. Financial Transparency: Contract Level
Fair-Play
Alliance
“Slovakia’s
Most Wanted
Watchdog”
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/

10. Open Data
~230 government open data sites world-wide
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11. Crowd-sourcing regulatory reform
40% of comments rated useful by agency
50% of regulations will be scrapped/changed 11

12. Crowd-sourcing a city’s future
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13. Crowd-sourcing a constitution
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14. US: Challenge.gov
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15. UK: e-Petitions from 2007
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16. US: e-Petitions
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17. MySociety
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18. Sunlight Foundation
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19. “Transparência Hacker”
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20. 55 Countries in OGP
 Transparency
 Citizen
Participation
 Accountability
 Technology and
Innovation
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21. OGP establishes independent scoring
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22. Open Government:
Key Learning Points so far
 Open Data a key enabler
 Best Open Government has both
‒ “Push” by Government leadership
‒ “Pull” from civil society
 Policy making and service design needs to be
“co-creation”
 Government must be prepared to listen and
act – else all this is wasted
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23. The Road Ahead
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24. The Road Ahead really looks like this
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25. Lots of information, but can it be found?
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26. Lots of information, but is it accurate?
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27. How to keep citizens interested?
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28. How to get public services to listen, and act?
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29. and as public agencies wake up … ?
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30. Leadership
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31. Partnership between Government and Civil
Society
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32. Recognise success
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33. OGP is not a race. But it is.
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34. End
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