1. Open For Business
Nigel Shadbolt, Chairman and Co-Founder
nigel@theODI.org – @Nigel_Shadbolt
@ukODI theODI.org

2. open the data…

3. and the applications follow…

4. at all scales…

5. around the world…

6. The Power of Open
Open
Licences
Open Open
Source Standards
Open
Open Data
Participation

7. The Power of the Results
Political Economic Social
• Transparency • Efficiency • Inclusion
• Accountability • Innovation • Poverty
• Participation • Growth • Diversity
Research Media Data
• Dissemination • Data • Engagement
• Innovation Journalism • Improvement
• Data Literacy • Acquisition

8. Open Data: A steady stream of
success…

10. GP prescribing data
The NHS could have saved
~£200 p.a. through
increasing prescriptions of
generic rather than
proprietary statins

11. Open Data: that matters…

12. From Spending to Contracts

13. From Transport to Environment

14. From Crime to Obesity

15. From Crime to Obesity

16. From Crime to Obesity

17. From Schools to Arterial Surgery

18. From Weather to Care Homes
• staff turnover (both home care and care
homes)
• ratios of trained to untrained staff (both
home care and care homes)
• compliments and complaints (both home
care and care homes)
• % residents developing new pressure
ulcers (care homes)
• % residents who have a fall (care
homes)
• number of medication errors (care
homes)
• % of appointments not missed (home
care)
• appointments carried out at the agreed
time (home care)

19. Quality over quantity…
Range, Reach and Reputation (No of links to the site)
Note: Log-log scale!
http://data.gov.uk
50000
http://data.gov
Reach
(Global
daily
users)
http://www.data.gouv.fr/
5000
http://data.gov.au
http://dados.gov.br
http://www.data.govt.nz/
500
50 500 5,000 50,000 500,000
Range
(Number
of
datasets)
Source: Deloitte LLP, Alexa.com data

20. Open Data businesses…

21. Economic Value, Innovation and Growth
• Health
• Transport
• Business Intelligence

22. Open Data Business Models…

23. Some Open Data Business Models
• Data Marketplaces for open • Open Data and Trust/
data, Freemium model or Reputation
advertisement revenues
• Open API – various
• Open Data Apps economic benefits,
extended branding, new
• Open innovation - economic
distribution channels,
benefits for both, the host, innovative external product
and the sponsor, and is development for
adding value to the
businesses, and additional
economy as an additional
income for the developers
economic activity

25. Our team
Tim Berners-Lee Nigel Shadbolt
President Chairman
Gavin Starks – CEO
15+ years startup experience.
20+ years science, internet and data.
Stuart Coleman – Commercial
15+ years in tech space.
Formerly HP, CA, and AMEE.
Jeni Tennison – Technical
World-leader in open data and linked data.
W3C, legislation.gov.uk and data.gov.uk architect.

26. Highlights from our first 10 weeks
→ £10m UK public-sector funding
→ $750k match-funding from Omidyar Network
→ £850k Data Strategy Board and Nesta immersion programme
→ £1.1m Technology Strategy Board innovation vouchers
→ Potential £200m/year saving for the NHS http://www.prescribinganalytics.com/
→ 2-year programme with World Bank: train world’s politicians and leaders
→ 5 startups in-situ (and helped them close commercial contracts)
→ 4 hackathons, 2 guides, 4 consultation responses, 4 case studies, 8 guest blogs
→ 700+ people through our Shoreditch space
→ Convened: Open Government Partnership, ICT Reform, MacArthur Foundation
Open Data User Group, Public Sector Transparency Board,
OKF and MySociety

27. → Convened domain-
experts
+ health
+ data analytics
+
communications
→ Analysed 35m rows of
data
(all the data)
→ 8-week turnaround
→ £200m+ saving
potential
→ Trackable
interventions
→ Repeatable

30. Incubating Open Data start ups…

31. Incubating Open Data start ups…

33. Thank you
nigel@theodi.org
@Nigel_Shadbolt