17. Economic Value of Open Data
● Open Gov Data in EU would increase
business activity by up to €40 Bn/year
● EU Direct & indirect benefits up to €140
Bn/year (0.7% of GDP)
● Spanish study found ~€600m of business from
open data with >5000 jobs
● Australian study found ROI of ~500% from
open data
● Deloitte found open data was reused 10x-100x
more than charged-for data
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19. Core Reference Data for the Economy
Government data provides a National
Information Infrastructure
●Releasing GPS data now has $122bn/yr
benefits to US economy alone
●UK National Mapping Agency data supports
£100bn/yr of GDP activity
●Open Weather Data in US has created 400
companies employing 4000 people
●Open addressing data in Denmark gave
$21m/yr benefits and 22x ROI in first 4 years
(now 70x in steady state)
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20. Open Data improving public services
Patient 12+ Weeks
ratings MRSA-free
Blood
clots
2 recent
MRSA
Good C-Diff
Low record
Mortality
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22. Best Practices and Challenges
● Release interesting and useful data
● Use standard, open formats
● Use Open Licences
● Make best use of Cultural Data
● Create an open data “eco-system”
● Remember the “internal ROI”
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49. Objectives
● Care for the Collection
● Enhance the Collection
● Study the Collection
● Allow Access (sub-objective)
● Encourage tourism? – NO
● Contribute to economic growth? - NO
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53. UK Open Data Institute
● Develop capability of UK
businesses to exploit value of
Open Data
● Engage developers/small
businesses to build Open Data
supply chains and commercial
outlets
● Help public sector use its own
data more effectively
● Ensure academic research in
Open Data technologies
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57. Best Practices and Challenges
● Release interesting and useful data
● Use standard, open formats
● Use Open Licences
● Deliver incrementally
● Make best use of Cultural Data
● Create an open data “eco-system”
● Remember the “internal ROI”
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