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Openness as a Value
Eleanor StewartHead of TransparencyForeign & Commonwealth Office@digenghmgPersonal Democracy Forum, Kiev 22 June 2016
Today the UK is seen as an exemplar for open government
• Ranked no 1 in world • First to have an open data portal : Data.gov.uk
– Used data to drive efficiencies in public services – Used data to improve accountability
• Legislated on release of data in addition to the Freedom of Information laws
• Mandated Digital by default & open document formats• Core member of the OGP and working with partners in 28
countries • Created the ODI to build and support start-ups/data users. • Developed positive working relations with Civil Society • Citizens use open data daily without releasing it
Magna Carta 1215• Citizens not Subjects • Everyone subject to
the law including the King
• Right to a fair trial • Check on the crowns
ability to levy taxes• 25 Barons elected
Bill of Rights 1689• laws should not be dispensed with or suspended
without the consent of Parliament; • no taxes should be levied without the authority of
Parliament; • the right to petition the monarch should be without
fear of retribution; • no standing army may be maintained during
peacetime without the consent of Parliament;• Protestant subjects may have arms for their defence
as suitable to their class and as allowed by law; • the election of members of Parliament should be free; • the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in
Parliament should not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;
• excessive bail should not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted;
• jurors should be duly impannelled and returned and jurors in high treason trials should be freeholders;
• promises of fines or forfeitures before conviction are void;
• Parliaments should be held frequently.
Hansard 1812
The edited records of all parliamentary debates, votes, written ministerial statements and answers from the Houses of Commons and Lords since 1812.
But more recently…
• 1994 code of practice on access to government information
• 1997 white paper “Your Right to Know”• 2000 Freedom of Information Act
But…
Missing Records :
Wasting Public Money:
Power of Information Taskforce 2008-09
The 4 “Opens”
Open information. To have an effective voice, people need to be able to understand what is going on in their public services. Government will publish information about public services in ways that are easy to find, easy to use, and easy to re-use, and will unlock data, where appropriate
Open innovation. We will promote innovation in online public services to respond to changing expectations.
Open discussion. We will promote greater engagement with the public through more interactive online consultation and collaboration. We will also empower professionals to be active on online peer-support networks in their area of work.
Open feedback. Most importantly, the public should be able to have a fair say about their services.
Information Thirst
• Growth in desire for information
• Rise of data journalism
• Demand for accountability
New Technology
The start of work on data.gov.uk
Objectives• increase transparency• improve public services• release new economic and
social value and growth• make UK a global hub of skills
in the future of the Web
“So that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the creation of the World Wide Web, to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming months".
Gordon Brown, 10 June 2009
Show Us A Better Way
1st Government Hack Day
Revised Licensing
By May 2010
• Austerity predominant political theme• Politicians keen to force greater accountability
on public sector (culturally and financially) • Social media/new technology becoming
mainstream (including for government) • Smartphone revolution underway• Had a data portal and had released c100
datasets; some csv’s some pdf’s• Data hadn’t been checked for
quality/consistency
Open Data = Transparency
Major Priority for Government “Greater transparency across Government is at the heart of our shared commitment to enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account; to reduce the deficit and deliver better value for money in public spending; and to realise significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites using public data.”
David CameronMay 2010
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Data Users
Government releasing Open Data
Mandated PM Commitments• Names, grades, job titles and annual pay rates for most Senior Civil Servants with salaries above
£150,000 to be published • Names, grades, job titles and annual pay rates for most Senior Civil Servants and NDPB officials with
salaries higher than the lowest permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale• Organograms for central government departments and agencies that include all staff positions to be
published in a common format• Names/titles of all Special Advisers, salaries where over Pay Band 1 • NDPB officials earning over £150,000• Local government officials earning over £150,000• Central government workforce including temps, consultants, etc. • Historic COINS spending data to be published online• New items of central government spending over £25,000 to be published online • All new central government contracts to be published in full • All new central government tender documents for contracts over £10,000 to be published on a
single website from September 2010, with this information to be made available to the public free• New items of local government spending over £500 to be published on a council-by-council basis • Full information on all DFID international development projects over £500 to be published online
from January 2011, including financial information and project documentation.• Government departments and agencies should ensure that any information published includes the
underlying data in an open standardised format. • Publish the energy use of government headquarters in real-time • New local government contracts and tender documents for expenditure over £500 to be published
in full • Crime data to be published at a level that allows the public to see what is happening on their streets • Value for money calculations of all government websites • Complete list of all Local Authorities and their contact details.
Also • Every department and Public body must have an
Open Data Strategy • All departments have had to identify what data they
hold• Prioritized data that was already in the public domain
in some form • Have had to redesigning charging models to make
data open • Built a data request mechanism• Began to look at a reform of the FOI laws to focus on
openness not exemptions
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Pt6)
• Information must released in a reusable way
• Broadens definition of “dataset”
• Consolidates copyright and reuse guidance
• Defines criteria for charging for data
League Tables of departments reported to Parliament
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Looked for data that matters to citizens:
This is not easy for government:
What does this all mean?
Who is “government”
Where do my taxes go?
What do I get for it?
Links to thedocuments
Performance of healthcare providers
Reduced Mortality for Heart Surgery
Performance of law enforcement
Performance of individual schools
Transport
As a transport project alone, evaluated by usual economic criteria:ROI = 58:1
Administrative Integrity
Release of Company Data
Aid Transparency
In country impact:
Property Ownership
Geographical Data
Crisis Management
App Development
Travel industry
Start ups
Pesky People – 999 App for the profoundly deaf
Citizen Participation
Formal Participation
Where next?
Stimulate demand for data from business, citizens and public servants
Making sure data is truly re-usable and useful
Working to ensure Privacy of Personal Data
Promoting the use of Data
Informing and promoting dialogue and debate
Ongoing Challenges • Quality & Usability of the information/ data
we’re releasing (and technology we’re using)
• Overcoming fear of releasing information or engaging (political & official)
• Educating officials ; cultural change• Creating informed citizens and active
users/marketplaces• Changing landscape & technology
The challenge of open government:
“Government ought to be all outside and no inside…Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, avoids public places and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety” ― Woodrow Wilson 1912; The New Freedom
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