From e-gov to we-gov

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GIZ-‐Delega*on on e-‐Government, April 2013 From e-‐gov to we-‐gov

From e-‐gov to we-‐gov

GIZ-‐Delega*on, Berlin, April 2013

About me!Daniel Dietrich !Background in Computer Science & Media Science in Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany !Working for the Open Knowledge Founda*on since 2009 !Author of several studies and reports on Open Government, Open Data, Transparency and Par*cipa*on

About the OKFN!A not-‐for-‐profit organisa*on, promo*ng openness in all its forms. ! "From sonnets to sta*s*cs, genes to geo-‐data” !We build tools and communi*es to create, use and share open knowledge, content and data that everyone can use, share and build on.

Working Groups -‐ join today!

!CKAN is an open source data portal soWware that makes it easy to publish, share and find data. !CKAN features dozens of governments' data portals including United Kingdom, Brazil, Finland, Norway and ...

www.ckan.org

We build tools to share data

www.openspending.org

!Open Spending is an open source soWware to visualise and help ci*zens be[er understand how their tax-‐money is being spend. !!Open Spending features the budget and spending data from dozens of Governments from around the world to become more transparent. !

We build tools to work with data

www.opendefini*on.org

We set the standards to open

census.okfn.org

We help to open data

We promote open data

www.opendatahandbook.org

We develop Guidelines

www.schoolofdata.org

We provide training

Open Knowledge Fes*val Oken Knowledge Conference Open Data Camp Open Data Day ... www.okfn.org/events/

We bring people together

+ 400 par*cipants from + 40 countries + 6 Tracks + 40 sessions !

www.ogdcamp.org

We run conferences and compe**ons

20k in prizes for apps, ideas, data 430 entries from 24 EU Member States !www.opendatachallenge.org

www.openglam.org

We care about our cultural heritage

The open GLAM ini*a*ve promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. !!

www.publicdomainreview.org

We build the digital commons

We build tools

We build more tools

We are a global Network

Chapters: UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland !Local groups: Finland, Brazil, Spain, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Australia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Bosnia and ...

www.okfn.org/local/

The German Chapter of Open Knowledge Founda*on

OKF DE

Think & Do Tank!A not-‐for-‐profit organisa*on, promo*ng the release, use and re-‐use of open knowledge from various domains, in par*cular that of government data. !We work on technologies that enable greater transparency in public life and new spaces for ci*zen par*cipa*on.

Prac*cal Transparency!We seek a world in which open knowledge is ubiquitous and rou*ne. We promote open knowledge because of its poten*al to deliver far-‐reaching societal benefits. !We focus on community driven projects & technology that enable people to be[er understand society and to become engaged. !

Project: Frag den Staat

www.fragdenstaat.de

Project: Stadt Land Code

www.stadtlandcode.de

Project: Offenes Parlament

www.offenesparlament.de

Projects: Offene Entwicklungshilfe

www.offene-‐entwicklungshilfe.de

Project: Apps & the City

www.appsandthecity.de

Project: Offene Daten

www.offenedaten.de

Project: Offener Haushalt

www.offenerhaushalt.de

Project: Frankfurt gestalten

www.frankfurt-‐gestalten.de

Project: BundesGit

github.com/bundestag/gesetze

Project: KfW Förderreport

foerderreport.kfw.de

Project: KfW Entwicklungsbank

transparenz.kfw-‐entwicklungsbank.de

From e-‐gov to we-‐gov

!§ e-‐Government is an important tool to improve public services

and help for be[er communica*on between Governments and Ci*zens

§ Open Government and Open Data is a strategy to increase Government Transparency and Accountability and Ci*zen Par*cipa*on.

§ This is culture change about how Governments and Ci*zens interact and cooperate towards to a “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”: we-‐gov!

* President Abraham Lincoln’s Ge[ysburg Address, 1863

Related but different!

e-‐Government

E-‐Government Development Survey

www.unpan3.un.org/egovkb

Open Government game changer or hype?

!“We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant's books so that every member of congress and every man of any mind ... should be able to comprehend them, to inves<gate abuses, and consequently control them.” !President Thomas Jefferson to Treasury Secretary Albert Galla*n, 1802

New & old ideas

So -‐ whats new?

Open Government trailblazers

Open Government !“My Administra*on is commi[ed to crea*ng an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public par*cipa*on, and collabora*on. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effec*veness in Government.” !§ Government should be transparent § Government should be par*cipatory § Government should be collabora*ve

Using technology and open data...

& people & the power of the web

!§ supports ci*zens to hold government to account, which can

reduce corrup*on and mismanagement. § supports ci*zens to be[er understand why and how decisions

are made, which can help rebuild trust. § supports ci*zens to make informed decisions and engage with

the government, thus playing an ac*ve role in society. § supports government and public administra*on to make be[er

decisions and thus to increase efficiency and effec*veness. § supports governments, ci*zens, academia and the private

sector to work together and collabora*vely find be[er solu*ons.

Why open data ma[ers

!Data is not a means in itself -‐ it needs to be used to create value. For data to be reusable it needs to be technically and legally open. !“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it for any purpose -‐ without any restric*ons” !

What is open data

www.opendefini*on.org

!§ Experts within the open government data community have

established a set of principles for open data: !

§ 8 open government data principles by the Open Government Working Group, 2008 !

§ 10 principles for opening up government informa*on by the Sunlight Founda*on, 2010

Best prac*ce for open data

!Sir Tim Berners-‐Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has introduced a 5-‐Star-‐Scheme !You get the first (big!) star if the informa*on has been made public under an open licence. Without the first star you can not get the others!

Follow the stars

!§ OGD is not a magic panacea! Opening up government data will

neither stop climate change nor eliminate corrup*on! § OGD is infrastructure and prerequisite for transparency,

accountability and par*cipa*on. § Unfortunately the real works only begins once the data is

Managing expecta*ons

Open Government state of play

census.okfn.org

What data is available

!§ Start with low-‐hanging-‐fruits

– Those datasets that are already available in machine-‐processable formats. Data that can be easily be published for reuse.

!§ Start with data that really ma[ers

– Elec*on Results, Company Register, Na*onal Map, Detailed Government Budget and Spending data, Legisla*on like laws and statutes, Parliamentary protocols and documents, Na*onal Sta*s*cal Office Data, Na*onal Postcode/ZIP database, Public Transport Timetables, Environmental Data on major sources of pollutants.

What data first

!§ Legal Openness

– Is the data in a public domain? Can it be re-‐used without restric*ons?

!§ Technical Openness

– Is the data available in standard machine-‐readable formats?

!§ Relevance

– What kind of data is most useful to the public? Is this data available?

Opening data

!Implemen*ng Open Government Data tools and infrastructure don’t have to be complicated and expensive. !§ Keep it simple! § Avoid 5-‐year plans and mul*-‐million $ solu*ons! § Allow for itera*ve process and experiments!

Oh no! Thats complicated

!"It has to start at the top, in the middle, and at the bo[om", as Tim Berners-‐Lee observed in an interview.* !§ Top-‐level poli*cal commitment !

§ An engaged and well-‐resourced "middle layer" of skilled government bureaucrats; and !

§ Bo[om up: Civil society, and in par*cular a small but mo*vated group of "civic hackers" !

* Open Data Study 2010

How to start

What Governments can do

!The Open Government Partnership is an ini*a*ve of 56 countries commiwng to take ac*on on transparency, accountability, ci*zen par*cipa*on and innova*on.

www.opengovpartnership.org

Open Government Partnership

!§ 'Open Data' and 'E-‐Government' are the most popular

commitments across the Partnership § Commitments to legisla*ve reforms such as freedom of

informa*on or measures on an*-‐corrup*on are underrepresented

§ Why is this?

* OGP ac*on plan analysis by Global Integrity 2012

Sewng the focus

!§ Open Government is NOT mainly about be[er public service

delivery § Open Government is about ci*zen engagement, government

transparency and accountability

Understand the cultural change

!§ Governments should focus on serious legisla*ve reform, and

engage with ci*zens and NOT on crea<ng shiny-‐web-‐interfaces!

§ Governments should set up a suppor*ng environment for OGD.

§ Government should publish data & become a plaBorm for others to build value added services upon.

Legislate, don’t innovate

!!!!!!!!!!Parliaments should endorse the Declara*on of Parliamentary Openness and become more transparent and accountable.

www.openingparliament.org

Parliamentary transparency

!Tim O’Reilly encourages Governments to embrace open standards and open source technology to build lightweight web applica*ons for an open data ecosystem.

Why interoperability ma[ers

Leading by best prac*ce

Crea*ng single entry points to all government informa*on and services. Simpler, clearer, faster.

Leading by best prac*ce

Crea*ng single entry points to all government informa*on and services. Simpler, clearer, faster.

What ci*zens can do

Parliamentary Monitor Organisa*ons are increasingly using open data and ICT to hold Parliaments and MPs to account.

www.sejmometr.pl

Parliamentary monitoring

www.sejmometr.pl

Parliamentary monitoring

www.opencongress.org

www.fixmystreet.com

Helping the society

!§ Some of the best public services today are not build by

Governments but by civil society and private companies. § Examples being ‘fix my street’ by mySociety. Tomorrow most of

such services will have to go mobile. Do we really think governments should build all this?

§ I think we be[er not!

Ac*ve ci*zens & civic apps

!Open Knowledge Founda*on www.okfn.org | @okfn !Daniel Dietrich daniel.dietrich@okfn.org www.ddie.me | @ddie

Thank you!

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