2. Local Transparency
âą Local government supports a
presumption in favour of
transparency and open data
âą transparency fosters greater accountability and
democracy
âą ready access and meaningful use of open data
â Innovates and transforms local public services
â Empowers citizen, business, community groups
âą The pace of the transition from closed to open data is
based on local needs and demand
3. Local transparency
âą Open by default (Vision Redbridge)
âą Closed data is dead data (Future Cities)
âThere are only two types of data in Bristol City Council: confidential data
which we canât share, and open data which will be made available.â Councillor
Mark Wright, Bristol
âą Used within public sector to transform services
â Self assessment and self service(community budgets).
â Sharing of Insight
âą Make data open so that it can be reused by citizen, business,
community groups,
â Apps, location analysis, commissioning, engagement with communities
âą ÂŁ 70 million value in efficiency savings through the better use of
public sector information in local government alone (DeLoitte
2013)
4.
5.
6.
7. Local Government sector-led
approach
âą encourage a more meaningful approach to the release of
open data with the emphasis of a sector-led approach to
improvement and innovation.
â Local Transparency programme managed by the Local
Government Association (LGA)
â Local Open Data Group to promote a common local data
infrastructure and local domain on data.gov.uk
â Local government open data breakthrough programme
funded by the Department for Business Innovation and
Skills (BIS) and voucher programme funded by Cabinet
Office
â http://www.local.gov.uk/local-transparency
8. Local open data
infrastructure
Enable local data to be easily discovered, combined and
compared to make them more meaningful through the
use of common standards.
âą common standards, classifications and taxonomies where
they do not already exist (esd toolkit)
âą Practical and technical guidance developed by LGA and
LeGSB which sets out some of the principles for publishing
and linking data.
âą a local domain on data.gov.uk to provide a common focal
point for sharing and promoting local open data, common
standards, apps and initiatives
âą local government data and information services (LG Inform)
9. LG Inform: LGA data service
âThe LGAâs free data service which presents you with up-todate published data about your local area and the
performance of your councilâ.
www.local.gov.uk/lginform
10.
11. Core reference data
Local authorities
(and more)
Companies
Administrative
geographies
Legislation
Finance
Services, circumstances,
Metrics, ...
14. Inventories and aggregators of local data
Common inventory formats for
harvesting
Common dataset formats for
combining similar data from
different councils
Common vocabularies to identify
similar datasets and formats
(Services List + Functions List)
15. Transparency code guidance
âą LGA and partners developed guidance to provide
practical help to local authorities to
â publish local data to meet the needs of the code
and to
â add value for reusing the data
âą The LGA will review and update existing guidance
for publishing spending, salaries and procurement
âą Include outcome of LGA consultation on VCS
spending
âą Develop new guidance where necessary
âą Keep it simple, identify and promote standards and
best practice
16. Site to be updated once
code is finalised
http://www.local.gov.uk/practitioners-guides-to-publishing-data
18. Spending data:
Body Name
Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council
Body
Name
Amount Pay Date
Description 1
Descri
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB
@SYMES HARTCLIFFE & WITHYWOOD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP TRAINING COSTS
590
30/08/2012 EMPLOYEE
ORGA
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB
@SYMES HARTCLIFFE & WITHYWOOD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP TRAINING COSTS
962.5
16/08/2012 EMPLOYEE
ORGA
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/00HB
10 SQUARED LIMITED
922.5
29/08/2012 EQUIPMENT, FURNITURE & MA
NURSE
19.
20. Local government support
âą Collate responses from the sector on transparency code and
submit LGA response to DCLG (e-mail
transparency@local.gov.uk with comments)
âą Develop guidance on publishing data in collaboration with the
sector, DCLG, LeGSB and ICO
âą Develop and promote standards and data services (LG Inform
and LG Inform Plus)
âą Identify good practice and case studies
âą Manage open data breakthrough and voucher programme
âą Hold workshops across the country to promote a greater
understanding and responsibility for the opening up of data
within local authorities
21. Open Data Breakthrough Programme
âą enables open data release and ease of access to open data
to stimulate engagement, innovation and growth
âą overcome particular technical barriers in opening up data so
that the data can be more easily used in onward applications,
tools and services
âą develop concepts, tools, services, standards or systems
which directly lead to the opening up of data
âą promotes standards and good practice in opening up data.
âą Almost 50 applications: 19 successful project applications in
2013/14
âą Further funding in 2014/15: await further announcements on
www.local.gov.uk/local-transparency
22. Open Data Breakthrough Projects 2013/14
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
Peterborough City Council - Index of
open data sets to aid comparison across
councils.
Kent County Council - Local government
legal and business guidance as open data
Redbridge Council - DataShare
Barnet London Borough - Barnet Data
Store
Cheshire East Council - URIs for natural
neighbourhoods
Hampshire County Council - Linked
Open Data Planning Register
Leicester City Council -The automation
of the publishing of Open Data and
internal MI data in a standard, machine
readable, linked format
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
Lancashire County Council Lancashire Local Information Service
(LIS) Project
Cambridgeshire County Council Cambridgeshire Insight Open Data:
Stimulating Economic Growth and
Encouraging Innovation.
Devon County Council - Local
Government Community Data â
opportunities for localities and
businesses*
Leeds City Council - development of
the West Yorkshire Observatory* and
Hackathon
City of York Council - York Open
Data â Empowering communities to
access services (not able to present
today)
23. Open Data Breakthrough Projects 2013/14
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
âą
London Borough of Harrow â Hot
Harrow
London Borough of Hounslow â
Customer Data Gateway
London Borough of Lambeth Cooperative Council Community Data
Project
London Councils - Intelligent London:
Skills Match
North Somerset Council â Customer
Information Portal and Dashboard
Sunderland City Council â Sunderland
Software City Data Brokerage
Surrey Heath â County wide Planning
Open Data
24. Voucher Scheme
âą ÂŁ700K of funding to local authorities for publishing
data to certain standards to provide more consistent,
reusable data from local government.
âą Local authorities will receive a voucher if they publish
their data to given standards.
âą managed through the LG Inform Plus (formerly esd
toolkit) programme funded by Cabinet Office,
through the Public Sector Transparency Board
âą Further announcements to follow
25. Services supporting
Local transparency and open data
Local Transparency: http://www.local.gov.uk/local-transparency,
Email: transparency@local.gov.uk
LG Inform: www.local.gov.uk/about-lginform,
Email: LGInform@local.gov.uk
Esd toolkit: www.esd.org.uk
Notas do Editor
Make everything open: Improves dataFewer requestsMake data work for you Transparency as a means of transforming services (open, accessible, cooperative, efficient)Self assessment and self serviceSharing of insightEngage people in local decision makingBased on needs and demands rather than central control (mandated)needs to find out what people want rather than guessuse of social media
Make everything open: Improves dataFewer requestsMake data work for you Transparency as a means of transforming services (open, accessible, cooperative, efficient)Self assessment and self serviceSharing of insightEngage people in local decision makingBased on needs and demands rather than central control (mandated)needs to find out what people want rather than guessuse of social mediaParkopediaUsing local authority data to give drivers live parking updates Licence cab app
promote a greater understanding and responsibility for the opening up of data within local authorities manage ÂŁ1 million of breakthrough funding to release open databuild skills and capabilities to publish and make better use of open dataidentify good practice in publishing and using the data in services and business applications and encouraging uses in the communitysupport the sector with guidance and development of data standardsfoster a collaborative approach to help authorities reduce costs in publishing their data promote the better use of data through existing and new online applications, tools and services (including LG Inform and esd toolkit)advocate the opening up of key government datasets, in the interest of local authorities and local communities. continue its lobbying for ways to cover costs for collating, maintaining and publishing data to given standards where the publishing of comparable data adds further value
developing and promoting common standards, classifications and taxonomies where they do not already existas part of the BIS-funded open data Breakthrough Fund, local projects are developing further standards for indexing and classifying local data and inventories technical guidance developed by LeGSB which sets out some of the principles for linking data.through the Smart Cities programme, promoting the use of common standards for the intelligent use of data for operating city environments more effectively and efficiently (LeGSB is leading on the standards work)together with the Cabinet Office, we are developing a local domain on data.gov.uk to provide a common focal point for sharing and promoting local open data, common standards, apps and initiatives and working with developers and citizens to build best practice as indicated in the government response to the Shakespear review. Publishing Local 5-star Data: A Technical Compendium, at http://legsb.i-network.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LeGSB-PublishingLocal5StarData-Rev4.pdf
When publishing open data you should use national recognised identifiers where possible for things like: local authorities, geographical areas, finance codes...esd-standards provides identifiers, names and descriptions for key concepts in local government like service, function, metric, process.
Tools to exploit the esd-standards including:records retentionpowers and dutiesneighbourhood geographiespublished data inventories
This slide is included to describe the Peterborough led work in more detail if needed.
Role of councillors: foster the use of open data to driveeconomic growth and businessEfficient and effective service deliveryEnabling citizens and communities