Open Data & Local Authorities, Paul Maltby-Director of Open Data and Government Innovation. Presented on the 27th of November 2014 to the "Why is open data important for Cambridgeshire" workshop.

1. Open Data & Local Authorities
Paul Maltby
Director of Open Data and Government Innovation
@_OpenP

2. At national level we have 3
aims for open data
• Economic growth derived from data-led
businesses
• Accountability of government to citizens
• Better Public Services
Deloitte 2013: £1.8bn direct economic benefits in
UK... and growing

3. Government data as a raw
material
Data.gov.uk the
government data
portal has over 15000
open datasets and
information on a
further 4080
unpublished datasets

4. How are Local Authorities already
taking advantage of Open Data?

5. Saving money
Improving policy and operations
Enabling cross-service collaboration
Connecting to citizens
Developing local businesses

6. Saving money
Cutting procurement costs
Publishing spend data at a local
level has created a market for
start-ups such as Spend Network
to create price transparency and
drive up competitiveness
Councils like Norfolk CC have
used open spend data to improve
their procurement strategy,
driving down costs for the Local
Authority

7. Saving money
Route Planning Tools
Local Authorities are
exploiting openly available
mapping technology to
improve quality and cost of
waste collection, achieve
better procurement and
develop more efficient
service partnerships
East Northamptonshire
Council saved £200,000
annually
RouteSmart

8. Improving policy and
operations
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9. Improving policy and
operations
Interactive Fire Brigade incident
reporting dashboard
Data can be filtered by response time or
incident time
Incident Time (h)
There are also filters for incident type,
property type
All data can be viewed and filtered on either a map or
a graph which allows for trends to be easily seen
Individual boroughs or wards can be selected and there is
also an option to view information about individual incidents

10. Cross-service collaboration
Leeds are using open data
from different public
services to make wiser
collective choices about
cost reductions: eg helping
the cultural sector deal
with financial challenges

11. Cross-service collaboration
Across Greater Manchester
Local Authorities are taking
data collaboration a step
further by using common data
standards to produce linked
data.
This enables research and
applications across the city
region, including finding
recycling centres, and
investigating planning
applications
Greater
Manchester Data
Synchronisation
Project

12. Connecting to citizens
Fixmystreet
provides a well-known
feedback loop
for local services by
allowing people to
report issues

13. Connecting to citizens
Travel information
Real time public
transport and car
parking space
information is
becoming ubiquitous.
Companies like
Transport API are
supporting next
generation services,
like the overlay of
social media data

14. Connecting to citizens
Glasgow’s Active Travel
initiative will show how
technology can help make
the city more cyclist
friendly
People will be encouraged
to use a smartphone app to
help collect information
which will pave the way for
infrastructure
improvements

15. Connecting to citizens
Leeds City
Dashboard provides
customisable widgets
with real time
information about the
city from transport
issues and weather,
through to sports
news and shopping
centre footfall figures

16. Connecting to citizens
Hampshire Hub provides
the data and support
network enabling the
creation of applications
such as Weather you do
or Weather You Don’t
(WUDOWUD) to help map
and predict the impact of
extreme weather

17. Developing local businesses
Helping retail business
Glasgow is working with
private companies to open up
footfall data from public and
private sources which can be
used alongside city travel
patterns to help develop the
city-centre economy
At a national level major
users of open data are retail,
financial services companies

18. Developing local businesses
Growing data start-ups
ODI Leeds is providing a space
for new tech start-ups and a
space to bring together the City’s
data community, helping position
the city as a centre of new data
expertise
Some of the economic and civic
value of open data is hard to
predict

19. Support to open up data
● Cabinet Office Release of Data
Fund £4m, 30 projects
● Free open data training for public
servants
● Open Data Challenge Series
(ODI and NESTA)
● LGA Local Breakthrough Fund
● Dept for Business Central
Breakthrough Fund