Presentation at: http://foi.holyrood.com Blog: https://theodi.org/blog/appeal-to-the-foi-commission-dont-confuse-open-data-with-foi

1. Peter Wells
@peterkwells
theODI.org

2. Who are the Open Data Institute?

3. We connect, equip and
inspire people around the
world to innovate with data.

4. The ODI node network
operates in 20 countries
across six continents.

5. Data sits on a spectrum

6. First draft

7. Data is infrastructure

8. Roads help us navigate to a
location.
Data helps us make a decision.

9. Open data and FOI laws.

10. Open data and FOI laws:
complementary and necessary.

11. Open data and FOI provide a
natural balance between the
proactive and reactive release
of information.

12. FOI enables citizens to request
information in relation to
particular areas of current
public interest, and improve
their sense of civic
engagement and participation.

13. FOI allows civil society and
business to request information
to investigate opportunities for
innovation or to support their
current work.

14. FOI promotes the UK’s position
as an open and transparent
place to do business.

15. FOI provides a mechanism for
access to information held by
government where the
community interested in that
information is too small to
justify its continuing release
and maintenance as open
data.

16. FOI can help public sector
bodies identify information and
data that may have potential
value if published openly.

17. A sustainable data economy
needs both open data and FOI.

18. Open data can help inform the
FOI Commission’s work.

19. Open data is an important
mechanism for transparency
and data innovation, but open
data will never make FOI laws
redundant.

20. Peter Wells
@peterkwells
theODI.org