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Dave CoplinNational Technology Officer(Acting)
Open Government and the Future of
Public Sector IT
From: Jonathan MurrayWorldwide Technology Officer
Microsoft
Disclaimer*1. Forward Looking Statements: The following presentation contains certain
predictions and forecasts which may possibly/probably, turn out to be wholly inaccurate.
2. Utility: The forward looking nature of this presentation is unlikely to provide any information which will prove useful for addressing near term challenges in your business or personal life.
3. Work In Progress: This is an ongoing piece of work; as such the author reserves the right to right to amend, replace or contradict any premises, argument or logical statements contained herein.
4. Investment Decisions: Under no circumstances should the information be used to make investment or other life changing decisions. The author’s liability shall not exceed the fee received for this presentation.
Principles of OpenGovernment
The Power of Data
Putting Citizens at the Centre
Background
Government IT Challenge
Support Environmental
Stewardship
Modernise Government
IT
Reduce Costs
Increase Government
Worker Productivity
Improve Citizen
Interaction
7 10 26 32 26
1 2 3 (n/a) 4 5
Source: Ipsos MORI
Great Expectations
The experts who provide and manage
public services know best
The general public should
be more actively
involved in shaping public
services
Social Networking Comes of Age
Source: “Global Faces and Networked Places” A Nielson Report on Social Networking’s New Global Footprint, March 2009
The Citizens are Revolting…
Image ©: BBC
“Police complain orders to patrol alone puts them in danger”
Which leaves me feeling like this...
And you feeling like this...
POP QUIZ #1: Name the oldest “crowdsourced” public service…
73 years old...
3 Principles
Open Government
Transparency
GrittingLorry
Participation
WheelieBin
My Council Dashboard
Current Street Average
Your Year to Date Amount
Current Waste Trade Price/kilo
£0.58Offer Trade? Yes No
Collaboration
Pothole
http://planningapplications.cloudapp.net/planningapplications.aspx
http://eyeonearth.cloudapp.net/
http://www.lovelewisham.org
The Power of Data
Open Government
Data is the New Oil...
life, death, taxes, health, wealth, school, exams, food, hunger, sleep, danger, driving, motorcycles, fish, weather, climate change, kids, dogs, cats, family, mother, father, parents, brother, sister, time, boredom, neighbours, crime, crime, government, policy, business, money, debt, home, mortgage, beer, hot dog buns, open doors, closed windows, birthdays, relatives, cakes, does anyone really care about this, terrorism, war, space, peace, fruit, beer, wine, drugs, old age, beauty, fitness, language, speech, hair, work, play, boss, job, famine, world hunger, is the bloke at the back actually sleeping, earthquakes, spiders, spiders, ants, bees, bugs, mushrooms, elephants, hatstands, chocolate, coffee, caffeine, music, is this another lame analogy being perverted to prove a stupid argument, presenting shoes, tigers, lions, snakes, shakes books, journalists, teeth, tools, nails, heights, spaces, culture, lame attempts at comedy to try and prove a point during presentations, funny, humour, tv, radio, internet, children, mum, dad, pets, snakes, birds, yobs, racism, ageism, conferences on open government, stupid conversations about technology fundamentalism, doors, water, oceans, rivers, fields, cows, bulls, computers, love, hillbillys, geeks, how long is it until lunch, really, heavy metal fans, guns, hockey, football, disease, cancer, alcohol, cigarettes, children, kids, powerpoint, cool people, water.
What Worries Me?
Single data set
Single context
Image courtesy http://www.wordle.net
Multiple data sets
Single context
What Worries Most People?
Your Age Vs How Much You Worry
“Crap. Crap. Craaaap.”
“This empty box is amazing. Huzzah!”
“It’s ok. Thingshave a way of
working themselves out. I remember
when...”
Source: http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload
Multiple data sets
Multiple contexts
£6 Billion
Source: http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/economics_of_psi.pdf
3 Laws of Open Government Data
1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist
2. If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t engage
3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower
Source: http://eaves.ca/2009/09/30/three-law-of-open-government-data/
Analytics and Reporting
Information Discovery
Brokerage Business
A Data Service for the Cloud
Information Discovery
Discover, acquire, and consume structured and blob datasets to power any application – on any platform and any screen size.Easy to consume secure APIs for content. Integrations with Office, SQL, Dynamics planned for instant discovery and mash-up of data for the information worker.
BrokerageBusiness
Partner driven ecosystem and global reach to deliver data and functionality to developers and information workers. Set your price, terms, and use our cloud to deliver web services and data to the world!
Analytics
and Reporting
Single click analysis to augment private data with premium commercial and public domain data - on premises or in the cloud.Discover, create, buy and sell analytics and reports on top of Dallas content…
Built completely on the Windows Azure platform
http://www.microsoft.com/Dallas
What is “Dallas”?
Putting the Citizenat the Centre
Open Government
Apps
/Ser
vice
Pro
vide
rsD
evicesTrust & Control
HealthVault Key Design Principles
Inclusive of Industry Standards
Privacy and Security Focused
HealthVault is unique because it puts the citizen in control of their health information
• In control of their privacy• In control of how they share information • In control of which applications they use
HealthVault is an open platform, easy to participate • Free Published SDK and APIs, Community Promise• Easily Extensible Data Model – works with
standards• Strong Developer Community: MSDN
Documentation, Developer Forum and Blogs, Open Source Communities
ShiftHappens
Moving Forward
Open Government
Sustainability
Strategic Intent
Capability to Act
Engaging Citizens
Access
Empowerment
Interest
Here Be Trolls...
Security & Privacy
Differential Privacy
Source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/databaseprivacy/dwork.pdf
“A randomized function K gives –differential privacy if for all data sets D1 and D2 differing on at most one element, and all
S Range(K), where the probability space in each case is ⊆over the coin flips of the mechanism K.”
Summary
Principles of OpenGovernment
The Power of Data
Putting Citizens at the Centre
Ask #1: Architect “Open by Default”
Ask #2: Unleash the Power of Your Data
Ask #3: Seek Out “Co-creation”
Ask #4: Encourage Participation
Let Trolls Live“Happy Ever After”
A Disruptive Influence...
www.theenvisioners.com
Thank-you
