Georges Labreche - Open Data Kosovo - Open data for good governance

1. Open Data
Good Governance
@GeorgesLabreche

2. The Idea
● Open data contributes to good governance
by promoting transparency and
accountability.
● For instance, if details of a civil servant’s
official expenses are publicly available then
he or she will be discouraged from
mishandling his or her allocated lunch
money.

3. Realities and Challenges
● Open data by itself is useless.
● Data needs to be transformed into
knowledge and information for all.
● This data transformation process requires
expensive technical expertise.
● Even when it is accessible, the value of the
data lies in its consumption.

4. Scope
● Kosovo ranks 111/130 in Transparency
International’s Corruption Perception Index
(2013).
● Many of Kosovo’s corruption cases occur in
procurements for public contracts.
● Define and implement an anti-corruption
strategy with procurement data.

5. Step 1: Advocate for Open Data

6. Step 2: Project Definition
● Collaboration with UNDP Kosovo,
Municipality of Gjakova, and the Mayor of
Gjakova.
● Develop visualizers for Gjakova procurement
data (from 2011 to 2014).
● Secure a commitment from the Municipality
to release future procurement data.

7. Step 3a: Open and Host Data

8. Step 3b: Don’t pen it the wrong way

9. Step 4: Involve Civil Society

10. Step 5: Disseminate Knowledge

11. Step 6: Close The Feedback Loop
● Policy making.
● Data journalism.
● Action.
● Repeat.

12. Some Positive Spillovers
● Digital Capacity Building.
● Process repeatability.
● Platform scalability.
● Instead of constantly having to chase for
data, organizations are now starting to
approach us on their own.

13. Faleminderit
@GeorgesLabreche
@OpenDataKosovo
georges@opendatakosovo.org
http://opendatakosovo.org