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Open democracy with
open data
Irina Bolychevsky
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We are a global network using advocacy and
technology to open up knowledge and see it used
to empower citizens and organizations to drive
positive change
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Working groups

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Building an open, inclusive,
fair, democratic
government with open
data

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1: Open by default
What does this mean?
Why does it matter?
Example?

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opendefinition.org

A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike.
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Reusability process
Step 1: get the data openly licensed
Step 2: make it accessible - metadata, formats,
machine readability, portal (ckan.org)
Step 3: start building, linking and turning data
into something more - information
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Obama: open and machine readable

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2. Licencing
Clear, standard default licences
are important
Legal guarantee for reuse
http://br.okfn.org/2013/08/28/dados-meio-abertos-sobre-o-uso-ereuso-dos-dados-governamentais-brasileiros/
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/

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3: Publish unpublished datasets
Registry of what exists
● participation
● see what people want
● building in transparent
process

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data.gov.uk case study

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4: Engagement
Data Journalism
Civil Society
Ask for help

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DataJournalismHandbook.org
● Free online - with Spanish, Russian
and French versions
● What is Data Journalism? Why is it
Important?
● Numerous case studies: BBC,
Guardian Datablog, Zeit Online..
● How to get, transform, understand
& visualise / deliver data
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index.okfn.org

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http://project-open-data.github.io/

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http://data.gov.uk/odug

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5: Open Data Portal
Central registry
Local / regional
Federation
New extensions
Engagement
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CKAN - open source data publishing
1. search and discoverability for re-users of data
2. data management tools for publishers

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Online home for data
Central keyword search
Facet by tags, location, format, licence, publishing
department
Browse by groups, keywords, publishers
Standardized interface for viewing
Link to datasets or data directly
Previews and data exploration where possible
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Data Management for Publishers
Easily store and update metadata records
Workflow and approval
Fine grained authorization controls
Broken link reports
Download and view counts
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Add and edit dataset metadata

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Authorisation & access control

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Stats & analytics
CKAN comes with inbuilt stats + integration with Google Analytics
Includes dataset counts, download counts + reports

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Link checker and 5 star ratings

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Sophisticated geospatial capabilities

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Geo-Search: Filter by location / draw bounding box
WMS previews
Plotting GeoJSON / Longitude & Latitude in tabular data

Support for:
● INSPIRE
● GEMINI 2.1
● CSW
● ISO 19139
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Harvesting and normalization
Get metadata from external catalogs and endpoints
CKAN will parse, validate and normalise to create metadata
records that look the same to end users no matter where
they came from
We can currently harvest: other CKAN catalogs, CSW
endpoints and WAFs serving ISO 19139 documents
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Federation
Search across catalogs in aggregator sites (such
as publicdata.eu)
Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol: http:
//spec.datacatalogs.org/

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anyone can publish

official accounts are
promoted

fork this dataset if you
want to improve it
vote and raise the
dataset search ranking

promote your reuse
cases
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ckan.org/instances/

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6: Three step plan for reusable data
1. Use the data you publish
2. Publish the schema
3. Standardise

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7: Spending & procurement
Where does my money go?
Open Spending
Procurement

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8: Company register
Identity list
Tax evasion
Numerous sub-owned
companies

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OpenCorporates.com

http://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/index.html

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9: Open Data vs My Data
Personal data is not open data
It can become open data if
transformed or released by
individuals
http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/22/open-data-my-data/

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10: Privacy & tackling surveillance
Open internet
● open source
● open protocols

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Evidence

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Finnish geo data study
SME's grow 15% more w/ free geo data as
opposed to paid data. Effect visible after 1yr,
stronger after 2yrs.
http://epsiplatform.eu/content/finnish-studypsi-pricing-geo-data
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EU Commission Research
Open Gov Data in EU would increase business activity of €40bn
Indirect benefits (people who use those services) up to €140bn per year (0.7% of
GDP)
Source Details (Vickery study)
Deloitte Study: 10x-100x increase in usage from opening up data (7 case studies)
- not about the price as much as reduction in transaction costs
Source Details

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Spanish Study

+5000 jobs from PSI re-use
Details and Source (2011)
Details and Source (2012)

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Addressing Data in Denmark
Releasing as Open Data in Denmark in 2002 gave E62m
benefits 2005-2009 against E2M cost 2002-2009, ROI in
2010: E14M benefit against .2M cost.
http://www.adresse-info.
dk/Portals/2/Benefit/Value_Assessment_Danish_Address_Data_UK_2010-0707b.pdf
http://epsiplatform.eu/content/value-danish-address-data

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Bus Stops in the UK
UK released data on location of 300,000 busstops; Community (Open Street Map) corrected
18,000 of them, improving official data accuracy

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Canadian Tax Status Misuse
Open Data exposed CAN$3.2bn misuse of
charitable status in tax code in Canada
http://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-opendata-and-the-public-purse/

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UK: Reduced Mortality for Heart Surgery
In 2004, the UK heart surgeon Sir Bruce Keogh persuaded his
colleagues (there are 240 heart surgeons in the English NHS) to
publish comparable data on their individual clinical outcomes – a
global first. 7 years later, dramatic improvements in survival rates are
reported – in some procedures, more than a third of patients are
living when they might previously have died; in all, there are 1,000
fewer deaths in English heart surgery units each year than there
were.
Source: Tim Kelsey
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Uganda - School Funding and Transparency
Amount of money reaching schools 20% -> 90%
Some controversy as to causal pathway
http://www.cgdev.org/files/15050_file_Uganda.pdf

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Questions, comments,
discussion!
Thank you
Irina Bolychevsky
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