1. Open Government Data: Implications
for Auditors
Andrew Stott
UK Transparency Board
formerly Director, data.gov.uk
@dirdigeng
The Hague andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com
21 Jan 2013 1.0
2. What is Open Data?
Open data is
data
that can be
freely
used,
reused
and redistributed
by anyone
for any purpose.
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7. By releasing it as Open Data
More Transparent Government
Triple Objectives
Improved public services
New Economic and Social Value
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8. Open Data and Auditors: Some Topics
The crowd as part of the system of control
Maximising value from the information assets
Data creating citizen pressure to improve
services
Assessing the “Open Government” loop
Government as a Platform
Quality of internal information systems and
sourcing of data
Open Auditing?
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18. Contracts: A great example from Slovakia
“Rate this Fair-Play
Alliance
contract”
Key details
and links
Original text
of contract
from Gov
website
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
22. Economic Value of Open Data
Open Gov Data in EU would increase
business activity by up to €40 Bn/year, with
total benefits up to
€140 Bn/year
Spanish study found ~€600m of business from
open data with >5000 jobs
Australian study found ROI of ~500% from
open data
Deloitte found open data was reused 10x-100x
more than charged-for data
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24. National Information Infrastructure
The data a government collects can provide the
“National Information Infrastructure”
Global Positioning System data now has
$122bn/yr benefits to US economy alone
UK National Mapping Agency data supports
£100bn/yr of GDP activity
Open Weather Data in US has created 400
companies employing 4000 people
Open addressing data in Denmark now gives
€14m/yr benefits and 70:1 ROI
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25. Emerging Open Data Business Models
Cleansing and organising data
Information services to the public
Data mining
Operational efficiency/optimisation
Financial products
Customer attraction and retention
Data broking
Value-added services back to Government
28. Enabling others to mine data to improve
public outcomes
Prescription data
Patient outcome
data
Longitudinal health
records
Pupil-level
education records
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31. Financial Products
Weather Risk
Management
industry in
North America:
$ 4billion annual
contract value
32. Data Broking
Most complete
Directory of French
Data
14,000 datasets
Scope:
French National and
Regional
(+ some European)
Public & private
Open & charged
Search
News
Contacts for specialists
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33. Government is a data user too
Sharing Open Data within public
agencies in Manchester saves €10m/yr 33
34. It’s not just about new data
Scope for “Open Data” also includes data
previously “published” but …
in non-reusable format
with restricted licence
only aimed at specialist groups
only for payment
only in response to requests
difficult to find
data.gov.uk contains a lot of data which
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35. Challenge charging for government data
Economically sub-
optimal
Licensing inhibits
innovation
Hidden Costs –
marketing, payment
collection, enforcement
Barriers to entry suit
existing customers
No real pressure for
efficiency
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45. Crime: Data Engagement Accessible data on crime
It’s very local
Local team
How YOU
can get
involved
Local police
Twitter feed
Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube ….
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54. Data Quality
Release of data
will reveal issues
of data quality
Celebrate greater
checking of data!
Use as stimulus to
Measure
Prioritise
Improve
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57. Data Publishing – Star Quality
Put your data on the Web (any
format)
Make it available as structured data
Ease of reuse
(e.g. Excel, CSV, instead of PDF)
Use open, standard formats (e.g.
XML, RDF)
Use URLs to identify things (so
people and machines can point at
your data)
Link your data to other people’s data
Benefits of linked data within Government also
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60. Open Auditing?
Open Data as part of audit intelligence
Public Engagement on Priority setting
Transparency of process
“Audit as a platform”
‒ Leverage crowdsourcing for audit effectiveness
‒ Results available for re-use and extension
Audit 2.0?
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61. Open Data and Auditors
The crowd as part of the system of control
Maximising value from the information assets
Data creating citizen pressure to improve
services
Assessing the “Open Government” loop
Government as a Platform
Quality of internal information systems and
sourcing of data
Open Auditing?!
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