Opening our information to support transformation Noel Hatch Noel Hatch
Jan 13, 2015
Opening our information to support transformation
Noel Hatch
Noel Hatch
• Make the best of resources to help tackle disadvantage
• Open up information to help put citizens in control of their lives
• Support people to use their digital skills to grow the local economy
1. Make the best use of resources
To help tackle disadvantage and create genuine value for money with the community
Image from http://www.innovationunit.org/radicalefficiency
New insights
• People combine different sources of local information
• Staff monitor how people’s needs interact
• Pick up on unmet needs and feedback on how to improve access to services
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New customers
• Bring people together with specialist skills
• Provide them with open data they can make use of
• Support them to amplify and create new “micro” public services
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New suppliers
• People can interpret & create information easier
• Connect public services and “hard to reach”
• Work together to support people to help themselves
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New resources
• Enable people to use our assets & resources
• Help people understand where can help each other
• Sweat public assets for and with the community to transform services
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Support people to change their behaviour
• Help people understand how their behaviours influence others
• Develop their skills in uncovering stories in their community
• Support people to use their social networks to spread positive behaviour
Start engaging where people are
• Work with local innovators to reach out to others
• Give staff the skills to engage online
• Take part in the conversation with community groups
2. Open up informationDownload VisualiseUpload
To help put citizens in control
Background to Open Kent• Concept won national award by IDeA, SOCITM & LGC • Successfully trialled for CLG Informing Citizens Project• Working with Cabinet Office to integrate linked data approach
• Development funded by Kent Connects until Autumn 2011 as part of a 1 year trial
• Being taken forward with local partners to ensure a strategic approach to publishing open data across Kent
Transparency Open Data Big Society
“Create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held
datasets can be requested and used by the public
“Ensure all data published by public bodies is published in an open and standardised
format”
“Enable businesses & non-profit organisations
to build innovative applications and websites“
Open Kent
Open Access Open Data Open Innovation
Provide platform & training toolkit for public & staff
to access, use and visualise information
Publish public information in an open and
standardised format
Provide environment for businesses & non-profits to
build innovative applications and websites
Open Kent offers an integrated approach across Kent
• 1. Sponsored by Kent Connects - Kent and Medway's Lead Technology Partnership
• 2. Enables users to access, visualise, map and compare local information from a single access point
• 3. Facilitates KCC & partners to share & compare their data in a secure way, to inform “place-based” decision making
To compare services, spend & performance
To make sense of complex information
To develop useful applications
What are the benefits?For the public For the public sector
Get information they want Rationalise data collection
Find it in one place – who ever owns it
Reduce cost of multiple databases
Format it how they want it Increase efficiencies
Visualise and share Improve user satisfaction
Add value to the data Create a shared intelligence platformSupport community engagement
3. Support people to use their digital skills
Help yourself
Help each other
Do it together
…To help build the Big Digital Society
[1] http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/public_services_lab/reboot_britain
How?
• Funded as part of Reboot Britain, a leading edge national programme to test new models of innovative working
• Working with Kent Business School
• National engagement
Get people together to develop innovations
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How does it work?Get people with different skills together… …to brainstorm ideas based on local
challenges
…develop prototypes …that can be showcased at the end of the day
How does it work online?
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Innovation Playground is a virtual environment for local innovators to develop ICT solutions
Use low cost, secure and open source infrastructure
• Makes the best use of cheap and accessible infrastructure
• Reduces the costs of developing and procuring technology
Amazon Cloud EC3
Google Cloud
Internet
KCC Cloud
Google DocsGoogle SheetGmailWave
Gadget Server
Innovation PlaygroundMicro – supportGlyn DaviesMarch 2010
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What are the benefits?
Empowers SMEs/entrepreneurs to develop solutions
Uses new tools to develop applicationsin a quick & easy way to help reducecosts
Taps into new markets and waysof involving the community
Conclusion
• Enable people to share resources
• Understand how people influence each other
• Enable communities to develop solutions