Evaluation of Open Government Data Implementation of City of Vienna
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The document summarizes an evaluation study of the Open Government Data (OGD) implementation efforts of the City of Vienna. The study included interviews with municipal departments, citizens, businesses, researchers and journalists in 2012. In 2013, a workshop was held with heads of municipal departments to discuss increasing data supply and novel publication methods. Key findings included that departments saw value in OGD but faced resource constraints, while stakeholders wanted improved data access and harmonization. Recommendations focused on integrating OGD into broader open government strategies, improving data infrastructure and public relations, and addressing incentives and skills.
Evaluation of Open Government Data Implementation of City of Vienna
- 1. Evaluation of the OGD Implementation of the City of Vienna Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013
- 2. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 2
- 3. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 3
- 4. Qualitative and quantitative Interviews, content analysis, desk research 2012: FIELD STUDY - OGD IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY OF VIENNA Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 4
- 5. 196 Datasets - 106 Applications
- 6. Study design & Methodology • Desk research – Legal & European perspective, strategic documents • Written polls and interviews with – Department OGD responsible; – Citizens, business representatives, journalists, researchers Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin „Stakeholder“ November | 2013| Seite 6
- 7. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 7
- 8. 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 crossdepartment data structures and statistic methodologies • Priorization according to OGD process model Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 8
- 9. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 9
- 10. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 10
- 11. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 11
- 12. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 12
- 13. Recommendations government / 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 13
- 14. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 14
- 15. 2013: WORKSHOP & DEPARTMENT RE-ASSESSMENT Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 15
- 16. 2013: Workshop, Department Re-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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 16
- 17. 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 Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 17
- 18. 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! Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems Open Data Dialog 2013 FOKUS Berlin November | 2013| Seite 18
- 19. • 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 Important Deadlines Deadline for the submission of papers, workshop proposals, reflections: 6. December 2013 Notification of acceptance 7. February 2014 Camera-ready paper submission 28 February 2014 Conference 21. - 23. May 2014
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