Presentation in the first workshop of the Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries project. Looking at the context of open data, and the research case study planned for 2013 - 2014. See http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2013/step

1. Michael P. Canares
Step Up Consulting Services

2. What is this research all about?
National
Government
Local
Government
Units
• Budgets
• Summary of
funds
received and
expenditures
• Procurement
• Projects

3. The context of open government
data in LGUs in the Philippines
Global
National
Local
Global
• 2011 - Open government partnership –
Phil is founding member
National
• 2011 - Full Disclosure Policy (FDP) was
issued as a directive to local
government units
• 2011 – DILG implements FDP and Seal
of Good Housekeeping
• 2012 – DILG launched the FDP portal
Local
• 2011 - Local government units started
posting information required
• 2011 - In some contexts, FDP is
translated into office memorandum

4. The types of data in websites:
•Annual operating budgets
•Procurement documents – invitation to bid, notice to
proceed
•Statements of Receipts and Expenditures
•Status of programs and projects
Not necessarily OGD but
has the potential to be
published as data sets….

5. What do we want to look at?
Open Data
(information
provided by local
government units
in compliance to
the full disclosure
policy)
Domains of
Governance
(emphasis on
budgets, resource
utilisation, and
procurement
transactions)
Emerging
Outcomes
(how open data
makes
governments more
transparent and
accountable)

6. What sorts of outcomes?
• What local government
systems, structures, and processes
were impacted by the compliance to
share governance information
publicly through the LGU website?
• How has the sharing of governance
information affected the governed –
civil society
representatives, business
groups, the media, academic
institutions, civic groups, and other
stakeholders- in terms of their
participation in local governance?
Emerging
Outcomes
(how open data
makes governments
more transparent and
accountable)

7. MethodsMenu
Question Sources of Information Methods
1.How do provincial local governments provide government data
through websites? How do the governed (or their intermediaries)
access and utilize the information? Do current local systems, as
required by national mandate, conform to the characteristic of Open
Government Data (OGD) where any user can “use, reuse and
redistribute [a piece of content or data] – subject only to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike”?
Local government information
providers
Interest groups
FDP portal, PG websites
Key informant
interviews
FGD
Secondary data
review
2. What local government systems, structures, and processes were
impacted by the compliance to share governance information publicly
through the LGU website?
Local government leaders
(elected, appointed, and
career positions)
Secondary documents
Key informant
interviews
Review of
secondary data
3. How has the sharing of governance information affected the
governed – civil society representatives, business groups, the media,
and ordinary citizens - in terms of their participation in local
governance?
Interest groups
Secondary documents
Survey
Focus group
discussions/KII
Review of
secondary data
4. What facilitating or hindering factors have affected the way by
which information was made available to or accessed by citizens? In
what ways will local context be improved to ensure that the Full
Disclosure Policy makes local governments more transparent and
accountable?
Local government leaders
(both elected and appointed)
Interest groups
Secondary documents
KII
FGD/KII
Secondary data
review
5. What policy, mechanisms, or processes are necessary for the
Philippines to fully realize Open Government Data especially in the
context of local government units? What are existing challenges for
local government units to achieve Open Government Data?
Interest groups,
DILG, LGU
Viewing of websites, FDP
portal
FGD
KII
Secondary data
review

8. Our progress so far.....
• Detailed process guide on how to conduct
stakeholder and process mapping are already
developed
• KII and FGD questionnaires, with corresponding
analysis tools are currently being finalised, test
run in a non-site is scheduled in May 2013
• Communication tools based on issued protocols
are currently being designed, including a website
with built-in blog for the researchers, and a
project brochure
• Initial talk with DILG representatives for
endorsement

9. Questions?
Thanks for the kind attention.