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Contents: 1. Intro to ODI
2. Theory of change
3. Key concepts
4. Useful tools/guides
Data Ecosystems: a Primer
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Contents: 1. Intro to ODI
2. Theory of change
3. Key concepts
4. Useful tools/guides
Data Ecosystems: a Primer
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The team
Founded in 2012, the
Open Data Institute
(ODI) is an international,
independent and not-
for-profit organisation
based
in London, UK.
Dr Jeni
Tennison
CEO
Sir Nigel
Shadbolt
Executive
Chairman
Sir Tim
Berners-Lee
President
Louise
Burke
COO
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The ODI board
Justine
Roberts
NED
Rob
Bryan
Company
Secretary
Roger
Hampson
NED
Anna
Mazzone
NED
Martin
Tisné
NED
Stephen
Morana
NED
6. Our mission
We work with
companies and
governments to
build an open,
trustworthy data
ecosystem.
7. Our vision
We want people,
organisations and
communities to use
data to make better
decisions and be
protected from any
harmful impacts.
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Contents: 1. Intro to ODI
2. Theory of change
3. Key concepts
4. Useful tools/guides
Data Ecosystems: a Primer
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We are one of many
organisations working
towards a good
balance between
encouraging and
restricting how data is
collected and used.
Our theory of change
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Our theory of change
How do we
achieve scale
● Regulators
● Advocates
● Advisors
● Suppliers
● Media
● Researchers
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Contents: 1. Intro to ODI
2. Theory of change
3. Key concepts
4. Useful tools/guides
Data Ecosystems: a Primer
24. ● Develop an international
ecosystem around open
data
● Unlock impact and
innovation
● Stimulate supply using
success stories
Accelerating innovation using open data
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Exploring successful business models with open data
Business models most
commonly used by startups
in ODINE
Subscription 87%
Single payment 29%
Funded by grants 13%
Attracting customers to paid-for products or
services 11%
Lead generation for paid products or services
11%
Featuring paid-for advertising 4%
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Exploring successful business models with open data
The role of open data
within the ODINE
startups. It enables
survival, but startups are
unable to differentiate
forms of the core of
our products and
services
23%
It is a marginal
ingredient, it powers a
non essential feature
13%
It is a key ingredient - it powers an essential
feature
63%
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Exploring successful business models with open data
Freemium vs Not freemium
Sales strategies showed a
prevalence to use of the
freemium model
30. The role of open data in businesses
depends on the value proposition
The most popular revenue models
are freemium and subscription-
based
The majority of companies have two
or more value propositions, enabling
startups to find a market fit
Main Learnings - Innovating with open data
31. Accelerating innovation using shared data
€7m EU’s Horizon 2020
Open innovation programme
that brings together corporates
and public-sector organisations
that have data
with startups and SMEs that
work with data
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Steward
Holds data
Person / Organisation
Can request data
about them in
commonly used
machine-readable
form
Third party
Can receive that
data directly from
the steward
35. we do not know
how to do
data portability well
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A well designed access
arrangement involves
decisions related to
governance, oversight,
enforcement, ethical review
processes, technical
mechanisms, legal
structures and stakeholder
engagement.
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Contents: 1. Intro to ODI
2. Theory of change
3. Key concepts
4. Useful tools/guides
Data Ecosystems: a Primer
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Ecosystem mapping can be useful for:
● identifying the potential impacts of
changing how data is accessed,
used and shared
● identifying the potential users and
communities who might benefit from
the creation of new data
infrastructure in a sector
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53. Any questions?
If you would like to talk to
us about collaborating,
partnering, supporting our
work, or anything else, we’d
love you to get in touch.
info@theodi.org
+44 (0)20 3598 9395
@ODIHQ
stewarding data – collecting it, maintaining it and sharing it
creating information from that data – in the form of products and services, analyses and insights, or stories and visualisations
deciding what to do – informed by information from multiple sources along with experience and understanding
There is a danger that in some places, organisations hoard data.
They may use inappropriate business or funding models for data that limit the value that we, as a society, get from it.
Here, value is concentrated in data monopolies, increasing inequality. We are more exposed to negative side-effects such as privacy and security risks.
We call this scenario the oil field because data is treated like oil.
We advocate for and support applying an open culture to the three pillars of how data is used within our economies:
a data infrastructure that is as open as possible; data literacy and capability for all; and open innovation.
There is a danger that unaddressed fears arising from legitimate concerns – such as who has access to data and how it might be used – prevent us from realising its full benefits.
Data might not be collected or used to the extent it could be. Individuals withdrawing consent could lead to data that is biased and misleading.
We call this scenario the wasteland because we end up lacking the data that could support data uses to flourish.
We advocate for:
building in ethical considerations to data collection, management and use
ensuring that there is equity around who accesses, uses and benefits from data
engaging widely with people and organisations who are affected.
Making impact with data is about influencing decisions that people make.
These can be citizens, businesses, or policymakers
unlock all the (good ;)) use cases with data infrastructure
as citizens push for it (jobs, better public services)
as consumers push for it (better private services)
as creators for it (jobs, wealth, etc)
example from open banking talk
open reference data helps you make sense of the personal data, open standard across all banks in the country
but you need more too
example from open banking talk
open reference data helps you make sense of the personal data, open standard across all banks in the country
but you need more too
One of our most impactful programmes has been ODINE. We worked with a number of partners around the EU to drive the use of open data in startups and SME’s. We accelerated 57 startups over a 20 month period. Each of these startups
€7.8m EU’s Horizon 2020
6-month incubator for European open data entrepreneurs
Supporting the next generation of digital businesses to fast-track the development of their products and services
Why did we do ODINE??
Untapped value for using Open Data within organisations - Assumption based that we tested and validated through
In order to truly understand the positive impact that open data can have on businesses, we had to dive deeper into the learning from the programmes. We undertook a surey focused around business models
One lesson we learned is it’s Not necessarily what the data is - but how you use it. Value can be generated in your approach. The main approach used by our startups was a subscription based business model. Over 87% of our programme paritipants took this approach
Subscription base offers recurring revenue for startups. Used to cashflow their activties
29% said their company would not exist without open data. These are what might typically be described as ‘open data companies’. They tend to build services specifically around open data. They are often members of ‘the open data community’ and are likely to have built a value proposition around openness.
34% said their company would struggle to exist without open data. These businesses are more focused on a value proposition that is enabled by data, using open data to lower costs or time to market. While open data may not be at the core of their products and services,it has become a key factor in their overall success.
None of the respondents to our research said they would be able to easily exist without open data. This clearly indicates that all the businesses believe open data is playing some role in their overall success, even if it is not necessary for their survival.
The emergence of open data - There is money in open data - offering viable and sustainable opportunities to startups and business’s
We asked companies if their product was ever free at the point of use in order to examine the prevalence of the freemium model, and to understand other sales strategies including free trial services. Over three fifths of companies employed a freemium model for their product or service, whether that was data itself or another service.
This offers startups the opportunity to increase exposure and revenue by users having ease of and free access to their services as a trial. By offering this to customers, they are able to build customer trust with their products and services before purchase/full access.
Value is not in the data what you do with the data - service and access.
The role of open data in businesses is not well defined as its level of importance varies according to each business’ value proposition
This lesson can also provide another rationale to why startups use a mixture of value propositions, as open data is still a new and emerging market. For example; supporting others to publish open data is commonly featured within the operation of a business, as responses show this is key in the development of end products/services. For other startups, it is understood that the majority says publishing open data makes open data a relatively small ingredient to their value proposition. From these findings, the role of open data within businesses is not yet well defined. Therefore, it may not yet be relevant and no startup is either fully dependent or independent on open data.
Freemium and subscription fees are the most used revenue streams among the ODINE startups
From initial research and the independent evaluation that was conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC), results showed that the most used revenue streams were freemium and subscription. The partners learned that in order for startups to create traction within their respective market, brand strength and market exposure were needed in order to scale. As the majority of startups designed a product or service, by offering customers a freemium model, it allows customers the freedom to trial their service before committing to a financial incentive[1].
If we want to build a trustworthy data ecosystem - companies are able to build trust through allowing people to engage with their products and services for free access
New open data business models suggest a mixture of two or more value propositions.
The value propositions of open data startups consists of users, publishers and open data supporters. From analysing the startups in the programme, results show that 81% of startups have two or more of these value propositions. The partners have learned that startups operate with a lot of uncertainty, and are still trying to find their market fit. The reason for using two or more value propositions can be down to the true identity and definitive value proposition of the startups yet to be defined. Startups are able to use this as a discovery phase, to determine their true value proposition. In order to provide startups with enough time to understand their position, a future programme may consider offering a 9 month acceleration programme.
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Began with the hope of producing a taxonomy
Lots of overlap and in some cases like comparing apples to oranges
Decided to make a map with cluster based on shared characteristics
In this room, the main point is: there are no silver bullets or one-size-fits all end-to-end solutions solutions.
Map data ‘flows’, maintenance of datasets
Tangible value like money or the use of a service
Intangible value like advice, support
Useful for identifying stakeholders, bottlenecks, important decision-makers
We have found that creating data ecosystem maps of existing systems can help to:
identifying the potential impacts of changing how data is accessed, used and shared
identifying the potential users and communities who might benefit from the creation of new data infrastructure in a sector