I held this presentation at the European DrupalCon in Munich, 22nd of August. It provides an introduction to Open Government Strategies and many examples for top down open government but also for bottom up initiatives when governments are not opening up by themselves.
This presentation was held in English.
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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Open Government - Keynote at DrupalCon, Munich 22.August 2012
1. Anke Domscheit-Berg
DrupalCon, München
22.08.2012
Digital Democracy – How Technology
helps Governments and Citizens to Open Up
Politics and Public Administration
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
2. Agenda
! Open
Government
1x1
! Tech
enabled
top
down
Open
Gov
! Tech
enabled
bo6om
up
Open
Gov
! Take
away
summary
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
3. Agenda
! Open
Government
1x1
! Tech
enabled
top
down
Open
Gov
! Tech
enabled
bo6om
up
Open
Gov
! Take
away
summary
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
4. My
convic2on:
The
future
of
government
is
transparency.
Its
already
there.
Its
just
not
evenly
distributed
yet.
(free
a'er
William
Gibson)
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
5. Open Government builts on
Transparency
! Open
Data
(raw
format)
Transparency ! Transparent
decisions,
processes,
consequences
(e.g.
how
laws
are
made)
! „Crowdsourcing“
as
method
for
public
procurement
and
innovaIon
Collaboration ! CooperaIon
in
and
across
authoriIes,
with
Civil
Society
! eDemocracy/eParIcipaIon
(co-‐decide,
Participation consult,
discuss)
! Mobilise
ciIzens,
improve
service
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
6. Governments Followed the Trend
for More Transparency and Interaction
! NaIonal
Open
data
portals
(2009/2010)
! Open
Government
IniIaIves
! Social
Media
used
to
listen
! CollaboraIve
tools
to
harness
creaIvity
of
people
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
7. Now, Governments Network with Each
Other and NGOs to Speed Up Open Gov
www.opengovpartnership.org
! 55
countries
! NaIonal
AcIon
Plans
with
transparent,
measurable
commitments
! NGO
and
broad
public
involvement
mandatory
–
Community
Public
Partnerships
! Sharing
knowledge,
experience,
tools
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
8. Agenda
! Open
Government
1x1
! Tech
enabled
top
down
Open
Gov
! Tech
enabled
bo6om
up
Open
Gov
! Take
away
summary
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
9. Open Data Portals Pop Up Everywhere
It is no longer a primarily
anglo american phenomenon.
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
10. Data.gov.uk – from Data for Experts to
Transparency Portal for Citizens
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
11. Official Data.gov.uk Portal Includes Data
from NGO Whoislobbying.com
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
12. New Open Data Portal Links to Political
Goals and Progress Achievement
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
13. Who Does What in Government?
How Much Are They Paid?
Typical Open
Government
Plattforms are:
• modular
Mash ups
• Combine
multiple
sources
• Have
interactive
and
community
elements
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
14. Visualisations Make Complex Content
Understandable – Basis for Participation
WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org (UK)
Built by Open Knowledge Foundation, UK,
with published government data
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
15. Open Data Unlashes Innovation Potential
for New Useful Services
Where is a free rental bike (or rack) in London?
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
16. EU: “Open Data – a Driver for Innovation,
Growth, and a Transparent Government”
! EU
Commissioner
Neelie
Kroes
esImates
potenIal
value
creaIon
by
open
data
in
EU
at
app.
40bn€
! EU
plans
to:
! Go
live
with
EU
open
data
portal
in
2012
! Define
rules
for
open
data
in
EU
member
states
! Fund
100
mio
€
for
new
projects
and
research
on
open
data
! Announced
“rules”:
! Machine
readable
! At
no
cost
for
users
–
with
few
excepIons
! For
any
use
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
17. US and Indian Governments Cooperate
For Open Source Open Data Portal
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
19. Agenda
! Open
Government
1x1
! Tech
enabled
top
down
Open
Gov
! Tech
enabled
bo<om
up
Open
Gov
! Take
away
summary
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
20. Digital Citizens Take Initiative – when
They Don’t See Governmental Action
! Leaking
missing
documents
/
informaIon
! CreaIng
the
laws
they
miss
! Geang
rid
of
laws
(or
ministers)
they
dislike
! Monitoring
poliIcal
accountability
! FighIng
corrupIon
and
abuse
of
power
! Geang
organised
to
push
bo6om
up
open
government
! And
they
copy
what
they
see
somewhere
else
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
21. Leaking Now A Known Option for Opening
Governments Bottom Up
! CorrupIon
! Power
abuse
! Human
Rights
violaIon
! Environmental
crimes
! „Secret“
public
contracts
! Waste
of
public
budgets
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
22. Accountability - How Do German
Bundestag MPs Vote? Online TV tells us.
www.parlameter.zdf.de
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
23. NGOs Provide Access to Open Data
where National Portals Are Lacking
! www.offenedaten.de
German
naIonal
open
data
portal
subsItute
operated
by
Open
Knowledge
FoundaIon
Germany
for
naIonal
Apps
compeIIon
! Supported
by
Federal
Ministry
of
Interior
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
24. Sometimes Community Takes the Lead in
Community Public Partnerships
! Apps
for
Germany
was
organised
by
3
NGOs
(2011/2012)
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
25. Citizens Miss A Law?
They Now Write It Themselves!
• Law to ensure transparency in government
incl. publication of lobby impact, contracts
• Developed via Crowdsourcing in a public wiki!
• Initiative of various NGOs and Pirate Party,
supported by 2 other political parties
• Was to be decided via referendum (08/2012)
• Adopted as law in June 2012 – 11 months
after initiative started
http://de.hamburgertransparenzgesetz.wikia.com
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
26. Plagiarism by a Federal Minister –
Collected in Public Wiki – Costs His Job
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
27. The Case of ACTA
ACTA Draft Published @ WikiLeaks in ‘08
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
28. FOI Portal Used to Gain Insights into
Core of Decision Making Processes
! German
NGO
operated
FOI
portal
used
to
gain
insight
on
ACTA
negoIaIon
process
! Response
declined
“would
endanger
public
safety”
! 7000€
collected
for
legal
defense
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
29. Digital Citizens Teach Each Other Whats
Going On – Using Viral Techniques
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
30. EU Parliament Listens to the People.
#NoActa Won.
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
31. The 99% of Digital Citizens Fought Back
– and Won (Not the War but the Battle)
Before – After Internet Blackout Day
! Stop
Online
Piracy
Act
(US)
killed
by
Transparency
e.g.
through
SOPA
OPERA
and
mass
acIon
! 18.01.2012:
Internet
Blackout
Day
! 10
Mio
peIIon
signatures
! 8
Mio
calls
from
Wikipedia
tool
! 4
Mio
emails
via
3
websites
! 2.2
Mio
Imes
#sopa
@Twi6er
24hrs
! 115.000+
sites
turned
black
! 1.000.000.000
people
blocked
from
websites
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
32. Money Makes Laws – But Now We Can
See How and Take Targetted Action
• If passed, Prop. 23
would suspend
Global Warming Act
(cut greenhouse gas
emissions in CA to
1990 levels by 2020)
• Oil & Gas
companies paid
10+mioUS$ in CA to
MPs to make them
vote for Prop. 23
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
33. Fighting Corruption in India Via
Crowdsourced Transparency
! jhg
I am a Civil Contractor. I got a
contract as per giving bribe …
The Engineer in charge of the
site asked me to put less
cement than the desired and do
a 50/50 of the remaining.
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
34. Open Gov Copy Paste: MySociety.org
Tools are Open Source – and Replicated
Original:
WhatDoTheyKnow.org
Sites based on this page:
• Brazil
• EU
• New Zealand
• Kosovo
• Spain
• Germany
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
35. MySociety.org Added Service Tools to
Transparency. Again – Open Source
! Transparency
on
MPs
(plus
easy
interacIon)
! Helping
with
FOI
requests
or
peIIons
(local
and
naIonal)
! Helping
with
issues
in
municipal
infrastructure/public
transport
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
36. Agenda
! Open
Government
1x1
! Tech
enabled
top
down
Open
Gov
! Tech
enabled
bo6om
up
Open
Gov
! Take
away
summary
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
37. Summary
1. Secrecy
and
corrupIon
have
harder
Imes
in
digital
democracies.
Transparency
is
contagious.
Globally.
2. Ordinary
people
digitally
join
forces,
become
powerful
counterparts
in
policy
making.
3. Governments
which
don’t
open
will
be
made
transparent
bo6om
up.
It
is
WHEN
not
IF.
4. Open
government
likes
open
source,
sharing,
collaboraIon.
5. The
Tech
Community
is
a
key
enabler
of
this
(r)evoluIon.
Doing
business
in
open
gov
means
helping
our
democracies
get
be6er.
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich
38. Contact
Anke
Domscheit-‐Berg
! Journalist,
AcIvist,
Entrepreneur,
Member
of
the
Pirate
Party
! Founder
of
www.OpenGov.me
! Co-‐founder
of
Government
2.0
Network
Germany
! Twi6er:
@anked,
@opengovme,
@fempowerme
! mailto:
adb@opengov.me
Anke Domscheit-Berg, 22.08.2012, mailto: adb@opengov.me, DrupalCon, Munich