4.5.12, Lightning Talks, Main Hall: The fitness of OGD for the creation of public value (Stefan Huber) #CeDEM12

1. The fitness of OGD for the
creation of public value
Indexing the fitness of municipal OGD
for e-participation and data journalism
An Open Science project hosted by:
http://openscience.alpine-geckos.at/mogd-i/
Stefan Huber
Presenting at the conference for e-democracy & open government, 2012.

2. Corner stones of the mOGD-I:
OGD is a key feature of open government
OGD strategies vary across municipalities
The notion of public value (Benington, 2011):
1. what the public values (synonym: appreciates)
2. what adds value to the public sphere
If OGD is processed into e-participation innovations or used
for data-journalistic purposes that are either valued by the
public or add value to the public sphere, public value is
created.
Indexing the fitness of municipal OGD for the creation of
public value is more than a technical challenge.
Two kinds of the mOGD-I have got to be developed:
the mOGD-I on e-participation
the mOGD-I on data journalism

3. Proposed components of the mOGD-I:
Linked Data principles as defined by Berners-Lee and others
Quantity of OGD datasets provided by the municipality
Variety, and Shattering power of OGD (e.g. budget data)
Cost (if applicable at all) of access to the OGD
Licensing of the use of OGD (e.g. Creative Commons, ODbL, others)
Actuality of OGD, availability of recent and historic OGD
Accompanying tools (e.g. data visualization tools, discussion
environments, etc)
Empowering tools (user propositions, collaboration, decision-making…)
Accompanying measures provided by the municipality (public
campaign, cross-media referencing, competitions for the best use of OGD…)
Empowering strategies (e.g. online/offline participatory budgeting
procedures)
Geo referencing and other components