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The Power of Public Information – Richard Allan Southampton, 16 th October 2008

The Power of Public Information – Richard Allan Southampton, 16 th October 2008. Context - Public Information Examples. People and Places. Public Services. Public Culture. Context – Website Free For All.

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The Power of Public Information – Richard Allan Southampton, 16 th October 2008

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  1. The Power of Public Information – Richard Allan Southampton, 16th October 2008

  2. Context - Public Information Examples People and Places Public Services Public Culture

  3. Context – Website Free For All After ten years of uncoordinated growth, the Government does not know exactly how many websites it operates, although it could be as many as 2,500. The Cabinet Office and the Central Office for Information are reducing the number of websites, beginning with the closure of 951 by 2011. To prevent a recurrence of the proliferation of government websites, no new ones should be established without the agreement of the Government’s Chief Information Officer in the Cabinet Office. House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, HC143, Government on the Internet, 2007

  4. Context – Re-use Abounds

  5. Context - PoI Model – An Introduction Interaction Layer Presentation Layer Access Layer Analysis Layer Data Layer Access Layer

  6. Exemplars – Opening Up Parliament 2004 TheyWorkForYou licensed 18th Century Reporting banned 1995 Hansard goes online 19th Century Hansard recognised 2000 Activists create FaxYourMP 2008 TheyWorkForYou gets video

  7. Exemplars – TheyWorkForYou.com

  8. Exemplars - PoI Model Revisited Comments Blogs Media MP Websites TheyWorkForYou Presentation Layer XML Data Creative Commons www.parliament.uk Analysis Layer PublicWhip Clerks/Library Analysis Data Layer Scraper Click-Use license Hansard Hansard

  9. Exemplars - we asked the public to show us a better way.. • Plain English • No technical knowledge required • Prize • Cast net very wide • 400 entries • Global coverage

  10. Access Layer – Key Enablers DISCOVERY – can I find the data that I want? LEGAL– am I allowed to use the data? TECHNICAL – is the data in the right format? COMMERCIAL– can I afford the data that I need?

  11. Discovery – Search

  12. Technical – Methods

  13. Legal – Licensing

  14. Commercial - Costs "Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free speech'', not "free beer.'' - Richard Stallman, the Free Software Definition, fsf.org

  15. Challenges - Control Anote to Tony Blair: Tony Blair has gone on record in the past week as stating that early intervention strategies are necessary for at risk families and children. we argue that this is completely unachievable in practice. We say, "it is just not possible to predict on a computer at risk families. you cannot predict, for example, which mothers are likely to suffer from postnatal depression, which father will become violent or an alcoholic, or which parents have no family support and find it hard to cope with young children or which children will have developmental problems. To support parents in bringing up their children to be good, happy and healthy citizens, there must be a support service available to all mothers, not just those that seem to tick the right boxes. That is the role of the health visitors. please ensure the primary care trusts stop reducing the health visiting support service." Hospitals (UK) - patientopinion.org.uk Police (US) - ratemycop.com Prisons (UK) - visits.sicamp.org

  16. Trends – Generation ‘Y’ Civil Service

  17. Trends - US References ‘Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.’ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138083, David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William P Zeller, Edward W Felten. ‘Making government data available online in universally accessible formats to allow citizens to make use of that data to comment, derive value, and take action in their own communities…’ ‘Employing technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize internal, cross-agency, and public communication and information sharing to improve government decision-making.’ http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/ (pre-convention)

  18. Evolutionary Pressures Civic Activists Technology Political Leadership Commercial Interests Workforce Culture

  19. Ambition - Unlocking Creativity I just had this idea… let’s try it. “cumulative innovation in a knowledge economy”

  20. Further Information – powerofinformation.wordpress.com email: ricallan@cisco.com

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