Talk aht the conferece "STANDARDS FOR E-TRANSPARENCY AND E-ACCOUNTABILITY AT LOCAL LEVEL" in Skopje, Macedonia

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Open Government in Austria
Conference on „E-transparency and e-
accountability in the Local Self-Goernments in the
Republic of Macedonia, 19th October, 2016
Bernhard Krabina

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Introduction
 KDZ – Centre for Public
Administration Research
 Public Management/Governance
 Financial Management
 City Management
 Consulting/Training/Research
 Open Knowledge – Austrian
Chapter
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Agenda
 Part 1:
5 years of Open Government Data in
Austria – results and achievements
 Part 2:
What is missing - a critical view
 Part 3:
Open Spending Austria
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Open Government
The question is
not, IF we do
Open Government,
but
when and how!
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https://www.zoliblog.com/2006/12/07/winner-of-the-not-my-job-award/
The question is
not, IF we do
Open
Government,
but
when and
how!

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2010/2011
 2010: an NGO initiative applies for funds for a
first OGD conference in Vienna (held 2011)
 November 2010: new government of Vienna was
elected: first coalition of social democrats with
green party
 City of Vienna
contracts KDZ for
strategy document
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Open Government
Implementation Model
 How should government agencies prepare? How
to implement Open Government?
 2011: Implementation Model Version 1
 including an internal directive to nominate potential datasets
 2012: Version 2
 2016: Version 3
http://www.kdz.eu/en/
open-government-implementation-model
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Open Government
Implementation Model
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O – Initial Conditions
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1 – Data Transparency (OGD)
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Results in Austria
 May 2011: Vienna publishes first 30 datasets
 July 2011: founding of Cooperation OGD Austria
 informal meeting of first cities with OGD agenda including Federal
Chancellery and NGOs
 first quick standardisation processes (definitions, licenses, formats,
data portals)
 reach out to D-A-Ch-Li region (German speaking countries in EU)
 April 2012: data.gv.at launched: an OGD portal for all
governmental data
 10 cities
 7 governments of the federal states
 18 federal institutions
 2168 datasets, 361 applications
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Transparency (governmental)
www.data.gv.at
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Transparency (non-governmental)
www.opendataportal.at
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2 – Open Participation
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Participation:
wien.team: Intranet 2.0
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Participation: Digital Agenda
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3 – Open Collaboration
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Collaboration: Vienna History Wiki
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4 – Ubiquitous Engagement
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Agenda
 Part 1:
5 years of Open Government Data in
Austria – results and achievements
 Part 2:
What is missing - a critical view
 Part 3:
Open Spending Austria
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Transparency
 OGD not high on the political agenda
 Austria not in OpenGov Partnership
 Big registers do not offer Open Data (except
the legal information system ris.bka.gv.at)
 Hardly and datasets for whole of Austria
 Data.gv.at
 10 cities/2100 = 0.5 %!
 8 governments of the federal states = 88 %
 18 federal institutions: Ministry of Finance,
Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Ministry for
Science and Economy published 1 dataset!
 Still no Freedom of Information Act
 No transparency in public procurement
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Participation & Collaboration
 no participatory budgeting in Austria
 participation and collaboration
is still a project, not a practice
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Agenda
 Part 1:
5 years of Open Government Data in
Austria – results and achievements
 Part 2:
What is missing - a critical view
 Part 3:
Open Spending Austria
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Open Spending:
Transparency in public finances
www.offenerhaushalt.at

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Situation for Citizens
after 5 Years of Open Data
 total of 2100 municipalities in Austria
 smaller municipalities: print version in the
town hall
 larger cities provide ~300 page PDF documents
online
 9 municipalities on Open Data portal data.gv.at
= 0.4 %
 5 visualisations = 0.2%
 international examples: mostly individual
projects

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From projects to services
Empowering municipalities

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Solution
 data from ALL
municipalities
 2001-2014
 login credentials for
mayors
 5 standard visualisations
 download of data
 upload for municipal data
 free of charge
2 clicks
for disclosure
of data and
visualisations

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09. 12. 2013

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07. 10. 2015

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Interactive Tree Map
- Political View, 3 levels

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Economic View

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Detailed View with Timeline

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Where does Tax Money go?

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Financial Soundness Indicators

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Debts and Liabilites

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Transparente Haushalte auf offenerhaushalt.at
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Youth Congress 2014: Online Game

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Transparente Haushalte auf offenerhaushalt.at
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Youth Congress 2014: Estimate the Amount

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Grants and Subsidies

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Infrastructure Investment

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and more…
 switch between absolute values and per capita values
 municipalities can add comments
 municipalities have a benchmarking function
 news section and information pages
 stable URLs for each municipality
 data.offenerhaushalt.at will offer filters for data and
metadata descriptions

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>900 municipalities
>70% of population
>13000 data sets
>85000 visitors
>5000 sessions/month
Summary
a turn-key solution
for public sector
spending:
“2-Click
Open Government”

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Thank you!

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Contact
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http://www.kdz.or.at/de/open-government-vorgehensmodell
Bernhard Krabina
 krabina@kdz.or.at
 www.kdz.or.at
 @krabina