Open Data UK
Unlocking the Reality
Jeni Tennison
Technical Director
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independent institute
launched December 2012
- unlock supply
- unlock demand
- communicate value
Government Initiative
- £10m over 5 years from TSB
- matching with money from:
- paying members
- training & professional services
- philanthropic investors
- research grants
Government's Rationale
- stimulate private-sector use of open data
- particularly new businesses
- build capability
- provide evidence of impact
- be a critical friend
Audience
extend open data beyond government
- private sector
- third sector
- individuals
Reasons for Open Data
- transparency & accountability
→ spending, supply chains - innovation & economic growth
→ outsourcing R&D, building markets - effectiveness & efficiency gains
→ ease sharing, internal reuse
Effectiveness &
Efficiency Gains
- how much duplicate data does government maintain?
- how much data does government surrender rights to?
- how much does government spend on its own data?
- what data does government need to use?
we don't know
National Core
Reference Data
- highlighted in Shakespeare Review
- data we all need to use
- anything you give identifiers / codes to
- schools, hospitals, courts, driving test centres...
- national information infrastructure
- the data we build on
- the data that makes everything else run smoothly
- deserve persistent URLs
Does the UK have
a coherent strategy for open data?
we'll find out this week
Fin
Jeni Tennison
