Open Government Data Strategy: how?

Juan Pablo Lovato

Projektleiter B2.12 « Open Government Data»

FITSU Federal IT Steering UNIT

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E-Government Switzerland:Cooperation among different players

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Swiss strategy for E-Government3 objectives

• Online transactions between economy and administration: online

• Authorities: modernization of their processes and online communication

• Citizens are able to conduct their important tasks with public administration online

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Organisation

• Steering Committee: 9 political representant from cantonal communal and federal level

• Advisory board: specialists from economy, administration and science are selected by the steering committee

• Program office: administrative unit of the Streering Commitee has to coordination the implementation of the swiss strategy for E-Government

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Catalogue of prioritised projects

• National coordination• Regularly reviewed and updated from

the Steering Committee• Prioritized Projects:

A. Services

B. Preconditions• The project leader organizations are

responsible for the implementation of the prioritized projects

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E-Government Roadmap (Juin 2013)

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Project OGD: Switzerland is conscious about the follow up!On September 13th was the FITSU charged, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Archives and the Federal Chancery with:

• Development of a Swiss “Open Government Data” strategy (until spring 2014)

• Implementation of measures to guarantee an effective introduction of OGD in Switzerland (law, licensing, financing, standardization)

• Creation of an infrastructure (OGD-Portal), starting from the

pilot project opendata.admin.ch

• Coordination of activities at a swiss level

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Strategy: many questions which need „one“ answer Launch of a potentially effective and attractive infrastructure (OGD-

Portal)

• Coordination at a national level: how?

• How should users be able to use data?

• What will our offer be (for economy, population and administration)? How far should this offer go?

• Who and how should finance this OGD offer?

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Should these elements be part of a OGD Strategy?• Directions of a cultural change

• Use/Collaboration Medias

• Policy

• Commitment of the single data-producer

• Communication

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Sources?

• OGDCE Guidelines: Section II “Design of an open government data strategy”

• …

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OGD strategy: core structure

• « Principles »• P1• P2• P3• P…

• « Shared directions »• D1• D2• D3• D…

• Proposition for a masterplan

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An example: Swiss authorities' cloud strategy

Grazie per la vostra attenzione!

Juan Pablo Lovato, juan-pablo.lovato@isb.admin.ch

Projektleiter B2.12 « Open Government Data»

FITSU Federal IT Steering UNIT