Open Data in Trinidad and Tobago : presentation to civil society

Open Data: T&T Readiness Assessment

Andrew Stott

Senior Consultant

World Bank

UWI

28 February 2015

@dirdigeng

[email protected]

Open Data: What’s the idea?

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What is Open Data?

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Open data is

data

that can be

freely

used,

reused

and redistributed

by anyone

for any purpose.

Why?

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Main Uses of Open Data

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New Economic and Social Value

Improved public services

More Transparent Government

More Efficient Government

Policy Objectives of Open Data

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OpenlyLocal: a dashboard for each City

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The emergence of data-driven journalism

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Is My Money Being Spent Well?

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Transparent and Accountable Government

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Contracts: A great example from Slovakia

15 http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/

Original text

of contract

from Gov

website

“Rate this

contract”

Key details

and links

Fair-Play

Alliance

Do officials turn off their lights at night?

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International Corporate Transparency

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Policy Objectives of Open Data

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Performance of individual hospitals

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Schools

Irene Choge, data journalist, NTV, Kenya.

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The Health Assignment: Toilets and Grades

22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58R2yNQtio

Disaster Risk Management

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Performance of local police and courts

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“Police.uk is a success story”

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“I am constantly afraid of becoming a victim of

crime, but this website has made me more

relaxed now that I know what has happened

and where. Crimes are not quite as rife in my

area as I imagined. I also feel that I have some

sort of link now with my local police. Well done”

“

“Local information for interest, and

details of who my local officers are. It's

good to feel involved and informed. I

think this will help us all take more

responsibility for our own areas”

“The new 'Draw Your Own

Area' function is a vast

improvement which will

allow regular comparisons

to be made about an entire

town or village.”

“It's just great to have the

transparency because it will

encourage me and others to report

crime because the result of doing so

is now visual rather than notional.”

Site feedback: 70% of respondents agree website is easy to use whilst 66% agree information is easy to understand

Over 56 million

visits since

January 2011

33% of adults

aware of and 11%

have used the

site

2/3 of users say

they’ll return to

the site to see if

crime goes up

and down

2/5 of users say

they’re now more

likely to take

steps to improve

their personal

safety £300,000 set-up, £150,000/year to run

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

Open Data provides a hub for civil

engagement

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OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT

• A tool developed by the World Bank to help prioritize actions in an Open Data Program.

• A rapid assessment to identify where interventions can most effectively applied.

• A tool designed to support an economical and action-oriented assessment of the readiness of a national government to evaluate, design, and implement an Open Data Program.

OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT

What is?

- Diagnostic and planning tool

- Recommendations for action based on best practices

- Start of a robust and consultative dialogue among relevant stakeholders

- Beginning of a process

- ‘Living’ document

What is NOT?

- Measurement tool

- Formal evaluation exercise

- Successful and sustainable Open Data Program

- The end or result of a process

The Eight Critical Factors

for Successful Open Data

Leadership

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Policies & Legal

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Government Institutional Structures &

Skills for Data

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Data within Government

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Demand for Open Data from Civil Society

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Open Data Ecosystem

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Financing

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Technology Infrastructure & Skills

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Datasets examined this week

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Tourism

Energy

Environment

Contracts

Census

Education

Budget

Crime

Payments

Land

Statistics

Weather

Elections

Aviation

Prices

UWI

Health

Labour

Arts Events

Agriculture

Company

Imports

Roads

Arts Sudsidy

Youth

Library

Maps

Issues we would like to discuss

What are the top social/community issues for

you?

What data would help you on these?

What do you/would you do with it?

How easy/difficult is it to get data currently?

What experiences have you have with the

Freedom of Information Act? Has it helped?

What happens when you try?

How would you like access to data to work?

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Discussion

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End

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