Ellen Broad – Policy Lead – @ellenbroad – ellen.broad@theodi.org Reproducibility in policy

Open Data Institute

•  Founded October 2012 •  by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt &

Sir Tim Berners-Lee •  Independent institute •  global network •  innovation unit

We will catalyse an environment of open data,to create economic, social & environmental value.

ODI Mission Statement

Open data – data that anyone can access, use and share - is

a key element of reproducibility

What does reproducibility in policy look like?

http://london-fire.labs.theodi.org/

Open, Informed Participation

Open data and policy

Decision making informed by data Open participation in policymaking

informed debate Active engagement with community

actively encouraging data use encouraging them to publish

Open “other stuff”

Policy modelling Discussion papers Minutes of internal discussions Details of submissions Advisory Groups

http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-app-part-1/

Innovative Uses of Data

The limits of reproducibility in policy making

Policy can be messy      Sir  Humphrey,  Yes  Minister:      “I  have  served  11  governments  in  the  past  30  years.  If  I'd  believed  in  all  their  policies,  I'd  have  been  passionately  commi=ed  to  keeping  out  of  the  Common  Market,  and  passionately  commi=ed  to  joining  it.      I'd  have  been  u=erly  convinced  of  the  rightness  of  naConalising  steel  and  of  denaConalising  it  and  renaConalising  it.  Capital  punishment?  I'd  have  been  a  fervent  retenConist  and  an  ardent  aboliConist.  I'd  have  been  a  Keynesian  and  a  Friedmanite,  a  grammar  school  preserver  and  destroyer,  a  naConalisaCon  freak  and  a  privaCsaCon  maniac  …”  

The “reproduce” in reproducibility makes me nervous…

Open data: the big picture New discoveries, new business models Social environmental improvements Increased public engagement Improved public services Transparency and accountability

Ellen Broad – Policy Lead – @ellenbroad – ellen.broad@theodi.org