Presentation on the challenges Brazil faces in raising the social and economic impact of the open data policy. Presented at the panel about the open data ecosystem during the International Open Data Conference, in October 2016.

1. Challenges in raising
social and economic Impact
of Open Data Policy in Brazil
Augusto Herrmann Batista - @dadosgovbr
Panel: Building a thriving open data
ecosystem for economic growth and
innovation – IODC16
Secretariat for
Information Technology
Ministry of
Planning, Development
& Management

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Current state of
open data impact in Brazil
●
Open Data Barometer (3rd
edition, 2015), Brazil is:
●
17th
in the world
●
2nd
in Latin America & Caribbean regions
– Score: 61.16 (in comparison, Mexico's is 61.76
and 16th
in the world)
– Readiness: 60
– Implementation: 80
● Impact scores: 36
– Political: 50
– Social: 26
– Economic: 31

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Examples: social impact
● Non-profits that use open data
● Qedu
– Find out and compare
the quality of education
in each Brazilian
school
● Cadê a minha escola?
(Where is my school?)
– Citizens will be able
to monitor the building
of schools

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Examples: social impact
● Non-profits that use open data
● Olho neles!
(Eyes on them!)
– Monitor the use of
reimbursement funds by
members of parliaments
● Diferentonas
– Uses machine learning to
help citizens find outliers
in cities spending federal funds

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Examples: economic impact
● Businesses that use open data
● Medicinia
– Social tool to connect
doctors and patients
● Neoway
– Business analytics that
save companies money
e.g. in locating good
potential corporate clients

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Examples: economic impact
● Businesses that use open data
● Grafeno6
– Uses machine learning to find
out average prices over time for each kind
of product that have
been practised in
procurement
by governments

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The usual hurdles
in using data
● Data that is not available
● Data that is not up-to-date
● Data that is unreliable
● Data that is not machine readable (have to
resort to scrapping)
● Data that has no licensing information

8. Digital Government
Digital government explores how governments
can best use information and communication
technologies (ICTs) to embrace good government
principles and achieve policy goals.
OECD: http://www.oecd.org/gov/digital-government/
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9. OCDE e
Governo Digital

10. Digital Governance Policy

11. Digital Governance Strategy (DGS)

12. Open Data on the DGS
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● Strategic Objective OE.01:
● Foster the supply and use of open data
● Not only for transparency and social control, but also to
stimulate the creation of new services, applications,
research, etc.

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Open Data on the DGS
● Strategic Initiatives:
● IE.01.04 – Foster innovative business models and
solutions that use open data to meet the needs of
society
● IE.01.05 – Gather international good practices for
implementation of open government data policies

14. Requirements for an ecosystem
● Data availability
● Breadth
● Depth
● Reliability (minimal downtime)
● Data quality
● Use of standards where applicable
● Documentation
● Ease of use
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15. Requirements for an ecosystem
● Awareness about the issue of open data
● Effective discovery mechanism
● Effective feedback channel on data
● Participatory governance
● data users should have a say on open data policy
Effectively work on both
the supply side and the demand side
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Supply side:
Milestones achieved in 2016
● open data policy for federal government established by
Decree 8777/2016
● open data by default
● mandatory open data plan for each organization
● ties in to processes and authorities already previously established
by freedom of information law
● digital governance policy (Decree 8638/2016) and strategy
● capacity building workshops on open data planning

17. Workshops on
Open Data Planning
● 10 new workshops in 2016: March(1), April (2),
May (1), June (4), July (1) and August (1).
● 46 organizations, 283 public servants trained
up to August
● results: 18 new
open data
plans published
in 2016
(and counting)

18. Demand side:
What's been done for impact
● Meetings with private sector representatives to raise
awareness about open government data (2015)
● local IT companies association and startups association
● potential business opportunities and the usual reports
(McKinsey, Deloitte, Lateral Economics, etc.)
● Government innovation week
●
3rd
Open Government Partnership Action Plan (draft)
● challenge: make supply and demand of open data closer
● Open data users survey (as part of an audit)
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19. Planned next steps:
supply side
● Online course
● Getting all federal institutions to have open data
plans of their own
● Improving the user experience on dados.gov.br
● Getting more data on dados.gov.br, integrate &
harvest other Brazilian data portals
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20. Planned next steps:
demand side
● Series of workshops with specific sectors
● Startups / Data-driven companies
● Accelerators / entrepreneurship support groups
● Data journalists
● Academics
● Tie-in with smart city project and working group
● Support the increase of supply of local governments
open data
● Stimulate use of open data by businesses
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21. Thank you!
@dadosgovbr
contato@dados.gov.br
augusto.herrmann@planejamento.gov.br
Secretariat of
Information Technology
Ministry of
Planning, Development
& Management