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Open data/Leeds City Council

Stephen BlackburnInformation Governance

[email protected]

@StevieBYorks

Governance

• Agenda managed by the Information Governance Team

• Open data principles

• Publishing guidelines

• Anonymisation guidelines

Useful data

• Government agenda focused on policy and process

• Needs to be understood

• Needs to be meaningful

• Needs to provide value

Leeds’ ambitions -Not just a council

platform!

Our ambitions

• Leeds’ ambition to be ‘best city for open data’

• Can’t compete with the likes of London, Barcelona & Chicago alone

• So….

Introducing…

Not just data!

• A community focus

• How can data improve the lives of citizens and communities?

• Building a community of users

DATA MILL NORTH@DataMillNorth

Innovation Labs

• Identify an issue or problem

• Which datasets could help?

• Work with analysts / developers

• Prototype solutions

Dashboards

http://leedsdatamill.org/dashboard http://datamillnorth.org/bradford-di/

And finally…

• Want an open data platform?

• See the benefits of working collaboratively?

• Let’s talk!

Thanks!