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Data.gov Case Study

Data.gov Case Study. How many people in this room have used the data.gov website?. Data.gov Case Study. How many people in this room have used the data.gov website?

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Data.gov Case Study

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  1. Data.gov Case Study How many people in this room have used the data.gov website?

  2. Data.gov Case Study How many people in this room have used the data.gov website? • “The interests of a healthy democracy require nothing less than real time online access to information” (Ellen Miller, p13) • Is this actually true? • President Obama’s memo on governance had three core criteria - Government should be transparent, participatory, collaborative • To what extent did data.gov succeed in these three aspects?

  3. Data.gov Case Study Overview • Chronology of events • Virginia => DC => USG • Test with smaller, easier datasets which are genuinely useful • Introduction of competitions for app developers • Major actors • Kundra • Employers: Gov. Kaine, Mayor Fenty, President Obama • Government agencies • Independent app designers • Major tech firms: Google, Amazon, Microsoft • Civil society groups (OpenTheGovernment.org, Sunlight Foundation) • Technologies used

  4. Data.gov Case Study Which of these frameworks are helpful for understanding the case? • Web 2.0 • Open Source development • User innovation • Wikipedia / wisdom of crowds • Groundswell • Long Tail

  5. Data.gov Case Study How well does data.gov meet Tim O’Reilly’s requirements for Web 2.0 success? • Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability • Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them • Trusting users as co-developers • Harnessing collective intelligence • Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service • Software above the level of a single device • Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models O’Reilly, T. (2005). What is Web 2.0–design patterns and business models for the next generation of software. O’Reilly Radar. http://www. oreillynet. com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20. html

  6. Data.gov Case Study How should we think about data.gov for the future? • As a source of information? • As an agency which coordinates across Government? • As an agency serving a function in its own right? • As a platform?

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