Evaluation of the OGD Implementationof the City of Vienna
Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013
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Our Projects
• Austrian Chancellery– Open Data Competition Austria– Development of Open Government Data Standards– Round table Public Sector Register Architecture
• City of Vienna– Advisor to the SmartICT strategy– Support on Open Data projects– Study on the implementation of the Open Government
strategy
• Ministry of Finance– Re-occuring jour fixe with IT-department
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Agenda
• 2012: Field study– Interviews (oral and written) with
municipal departments, citizens, business representatives, researchers, journalists
• 2013: Workshop with Heads of Municipal Departments
• Results, Interpretation & Recommendations
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2012: FIELD STUDY - OGD IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY OF VIENNA
Qualitative and quantitative Interviews, content analysis, desk research
196 Datasets - 106 Applications
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Study design & Methodology
• Desk research– Legal & European perspective, strategic
documents
• Written polls and interviews with– Department OGD responsible;
– Citizens, business representatives, journalists, researchers „Stakeholder“
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Statistics
• Study timeframe June – October 2012• Stakeholder constituency:
– External: 2/3 < 41 years old, 40% of interview partners within 21-30 years,80% of written poll participants male
– Internal: Participation of every department; 1/3 of municipal department representatives ICT advisors
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Organisational Setting
• Administrative steering power by municipal directorate
• De-facto independent departments with broad scope for action, limited co-operation
• Virtual OGD-department: ICT, PR, Economy, labour & statistics, data protection, land survey
• Departments required to nominate OGD responsible
• Central register coordinator to harmonize cross-department data structures and statistic methodologies
• Priorization according to OGD process model
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Results: Department voices
• Motivation: Employees see the value of their doing by public appreciation (feedback and applications)
• Poor men’s information management by using the OGD portal.
• Quality assurance by back-reported mistakes• Potential for harmonised data-basis• Increased effort by format conversions, personnel
effort highly dependent on existing ICT-infrastructure
• No measurable change of public contacts
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Results: External stakeholder voices
• Citizens: legal embedding of OGD, „How-To’s“ What can be done with data?
• Business: OGD cheap and additional resource used upon business requests– BUT missing data harmonization complicates cross-sector data
comparison
• Academia: accessible high quality-data for analysis and visualisation
• Journalists: Potential for revelations– BUT insufficient technical & statistical expertise
• App-devs: Interested in technical challenges, very limited business incentives– BUT better back-channels to data-responsibles for inquires
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Results: Evaluation study – key findings
• Good– Reusing what is available (CMS instead CKAN)– Unambiguous organizational setting with
established monitoring processes
• Fair– OGD public relations – Subsidy schemes take OGD into account
• Potential– Integrate OGD into OG measures, raise political
awareness– Central ICT message bus and data storage
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Recommendations – local authority / administration
• OGD as an infrastructure requires novel re-financing – departments shall not be punished for opening up their data
• Data harmonisation• Department-spanning data bus• Stakeholder-oriented PR and
development initiatives
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Recommendationsgovernment / political layer
• From OGD portal to OG platform: OGD as an integral part for Open Government
• Subsidies according to seed funding methodologies: from idea to implementation
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Recommendations - federal layer
• Make open the default: prepare for FOI
• CC-BY (or comparable License) as default of public funding schemes
• Elements of „school of data“ in schools and university curricula
• Get business (chambers of commerce) on the OD-board
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2013: WORKSHOP &DEPARTMENT RE-ASSESSMENT
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2013: Workshop, DepartmentRe-assessment & further Plans
• Invitation by municipal directorate– Targeting heads of municipal departments,
political bureaus and OGD responsibles– ~2/3 of department representatives attended
of which many provided no data
• Goal:– Convey goals of Open Government Roadmap
2014– Increase data supply– Discuss novel & stakeholder oriented
publication methods
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Workshop
1. Introduction of OG(D) by head of municipal directorate and OGD Competence centre
2. Voices of municipal departments AND application developers / academia users
– Implementations– Experiences
3. Presentation of International good practice & work by department representatives:
– Potentials– Fears– Contribution to OG strategy 2014
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Workshop results
• Groundwork not yet finished: diverse knowledge of what comprises OGD– Big Data, Personnel data, Computer
surveillance mentioned in the same vein as Open Government Data!
• BUT: Double as many ideas for publication of new data sets identified during the workshop than risks and threats!
Deadline for the submission of papers,workshop proposals, reflections: 6. December 2013
Notification of acceptance7. February 2014
Camera-ready paper submission28 February 2014
Conference21. - 23. May 2014
• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation• E-Democracy and E-Participation• E-Voting• Bottom-Up Movements• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration• Open Collaborative Government • Democracy, Globalization and Migration• Connected Smart City• Technology and Architecture• Self-governance in Complex Networks• Rethinking Information Visualization for the• People • Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
• PhD Colloquium
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