ESRC: Geospatial Workshop

1. ESRC: Geospatial Workshop Geospatial data needs:public sector perspective Dr Gesche Schmid GI policy lead Local Government Association ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

2. Outline • Drivers for change • Policy context • UK Location Programme • Geospatial data in local public service delivery • Current situation and examples • Value of GI • Conclusions ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

3. Drivers for change in public service delivery • changing role of local government from large scale service provider to • co-coordinator, facilitator and guardian on behalf of the citizen, • provider of democratic accountability • shifting balance between service provision and enabling citizens and business to manage their own life/service • enabling GIServices to support working and collaborating across institutional and other boundaries • freeing up of public good data for use and reuse through the “Making Public Data Public” initiative. • Other external factors: • Rapidly developing technology (Web 2.0) • Constraints of public finances • Meeting the challenge of climate change • Aging population ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

4. Drivers for making better use of data • Serving the needs of citizens and business locally through • Government transformation • Shared Services • Efficient partnerships working • Citizen engagement • Value for money ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

5. Data policy drivers • Better use of information by the Power of Information task force • Smarter Government: Making public data public through linked data initiative • INSPIRE: A European Directive to create a spatial information infrastructure that facilitates the access and sharing of spatial information across Europe. • Location Programme: Government initiative led by Defra to implement INSPIRE and to provide a framework within the UK to enable the interoperability of location based information so that it can be easily discovered, viewed, combined and reused. • OS Consultation: Policy on Geographic information on OS. Making OS data free? What does this mean to the public sector. ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

6. Location Programme • Joint Programme to implement the Location strategy and INSPIRE across the UK • Location strategy aims to establish a location information infrastructure to • maximise the value of location information to the public, government, UK business and industry, by providing a common framework that ensures ease of access and re-use. • Inspire aims to facilitate the sharing of geospatial data across public sector for the benefit of environmental policy. • Lead department Defra • Governed through Location Council • Local Government key stakeholder ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

7. INSPIRE Overview • European INSPIRE (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe) Directive came into force 31 December 2009 • requires that member states provide public access to location based data related to the environment according to specific technical standards • By the end of 2010 all public authorities must record specified location based data in an online register • Web enabled services for data to be searched and viewed by 2011; facilities to download this data by 2012; • Data defined in 33 themes including addresses, admin units, transport, protective sites, landuse, etc. have to be made available according to specific standards (newly created between 2013 and 2014, existing between 2017 and 2019) ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

8. UK Location Information Infrastructure • provides a framework for publishing location-related information, using common standards and protocols, through the UK GeoPortal • builds on products and services that already exist. • initially focuses on publishing authoritative data from trusted sources only – so users can be confident that they are getting accurate, up to date information. • data will be published by the owner or by a publishing agent and distributed through the Internet. • Part of Making public data public. Discussion under way to facilitate linked data ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

9. Primary On-line Components Gazetteers Transformation, etc UK Geoportal Discovery Metadata Catalogue Registry Resource Centre Third Party Added-Value Services Shared Service PUBLISHING AGENTS DATA PROVIDERS DATA PROVIDERS ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

10. UK Location Programme: Technical Deliverables • Discovery Metadata Service to publish discovery metadata for data and services • Data Publishing, to publish data and associated services – View, Download and Invoke and transform; • Search and Evaluation: to discover and view location information through a point of access; • Access and Exploitation, to download datasets and invoke data feed services via an information portal, or directly through the supplier‟s service site; and exploit it within a given business application. ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

11. Public sector data needs • Place matters in local public service delivery and the people and businesses they serve, because they need answers to question such as : • Where should I locate the new school which amalgamates three existing ones? • Where is my closest recycling centre? • Where will flooding happen? • Where should a new drugs rehabilitation centre be located? • Where are the neighbourhoods which need additional regeneration funding? • Data needs for • Democracy and administrative responsibilities (citizen engagement) • Operational service delivery and efficiency (asset management, performance management) • Service planning: (accessibility of services, customer insight) • Public sector as data provider and user ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

12. Targeting Energy Efficienciesin Dartford Borough Council Context • Improving energy efficiency in housing is one of the key government targets to cut carbon emissions. Solution • Local Authorities use their integrated land and property gazetteers to link housing and associated SAP energy ratings to map, target and improve energy efficiencies. • The data can be linked further to include benefit claimants who receive winter fuel payments. • Combining the different data sources enables targeted housing improvements and winter fuel payments to improve living conditions for benefits claimants. ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

13. Targeting Energy Efficiencies in Dartford Borough Council Benefits • Provides overview of energy efficiencies of individual properties • Better targeted and improved energy efficiencies of the housing stock and reduced carbon rating across the authority • Raises awareness about energy efficiencies and the impact on climate change • Could potentially help to better target winter fuel payments and reduce fuel poverty ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

14. Monitoring migration in Barking and Dagenham Context • International migration at local level can have substantial impacts on population size and composition, the labour market and community cohesion. The increase in international migration in recent years has presented challenges for the provision, funding and delivery of public services at the local level. Solution • Local authorities, together with the Local Government Association, have developed local migration estimates and trends for monitoring international migration. • Barking and Dagenham have collated additional demographic information through their electoral registration process. Linking the data to the local authorities land and property gazetteer enabled the Council to map population movement at household level. TIM: Trends of international migration ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

15. Monitoring migration in Barking and Dagenham Benefits • To gain a greater understanding of the changing demographic profile, migration and internal population movements. • To tailor and target services especially within health, childcare and education where they are required to meet the needs of its changing population. • Enhanced data sharing and collaborative working between different local services ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

16. Serving the needs of citizen and business through location in Dudley Context • to understand the needs of citizens and businesses in order to effectively serve them Solution • The “Where” underpins many needs, • geospatial data backbone to business integration, service delivery and customer insight as it helps to join up different processes, patterns and data through a common location. • To target council tax uptake use of a combination of housing, electoral roll, council tax and socio-demographic data linked to unique location references to identify which areas and demographic groups to target. • To get a single view of business combination of various business datasets to create business register ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

17. Serving the needs of citizen and business Benefits • Meeting the needs of customers by targeting services • supporting evidence-based decision making (for example a recent Primary School Review led to the reduction in surplus places from 13.2% in 2006 to 11.6% in 2009 while at the same time improving pupil attainment) • Supporting transformation of services through a better understanding of services • Monitoring patterns and establishing whether it is making a difference (example, the location of takeaway outlets related to socio-demographic groups helps to target obesity, take-up of school meals, targeting litter etc.) ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

18. GI vision for local government • To develop a strategic vision to set out • The value of GI to local public service provision • The transformation of services to meet requirements of modern local service delivery • The need for data policy change • Best practice examples how to make better use of Geospatial information and services meet the requirements to deliver effective and cost efficient services ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

19. Current Status of Geographic Information Service in LG • Survey in October 2009 of all local government organisations to identify • the current level of GI services provided in local government • the technical capabilities of GI services • current partnership arrangements and their limitations • Evidence to support strategic vision how to improve GI services within LA organisations and across partnerships • Over 50% response from local authorities in England and Wales • Report published on http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=6597688 ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

20. GI Survey: results • Current level of service • The main incentive for providing a GI service was more efficient sharing of data (78 %), and the main obstacle was a lack of resources (80 %). • 68% of respondent used GI for analysis, research and performance monitoring, and of these, 62% collected and monitored national indicators, and 57% carried out survey analysis, followed by accessibility analysis and customer insight. • Technical capability • 51 % of respondents linked all or most of their data to a core reference geography, and 80 % collected data to national standards. • Only 3.7% of authorities use crowd sourced data, 4.5% provide the ability for citizens to update the data online • Partnership working • In 39 % of respondent authorities the GI service was currently involved in partnership working, most commonly as part of a community safety partnership (41 %), a local strategic partnership (37 %) or a local area agreement (34 %). • The main perceived barriers to partnership working were licensing (52 %), cultural/organisational barriers (43 %), and funding (42 %). ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

21. Value of Geographic Information in public service delivery • to assess the existing and potential value of location based information to local public service delivery and as a public good in a wider social and economic interest • to maximise benefits from changes in technological, policy and practice to transform and improve services in a climate of increasing austerity • Six case study scenarios to exemplify evaluate the economic value of location based information : • Health/social care • Customer interface • Transport • Infrastructure and Planning • Safer Communities • Emergency Services • The costs and benefits derived from those case studies will be used in a wider economic model to assess the value and public good of location based data • And the benefits beyond local public services to for citizens, the business community and third sector ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

22. Conclusions: How will data be delivered and used in the future? • Geospatial is important to local public service delivery to show “Where” there is a need and “Where” services should be provided • Change from centrally government driven to citizen self help, government acts as an enabler. • Public sector needs to open up data so that they can be re-used by the citizens (MPDP) • What does the changing role mean to the value of the data (OS consultation)? • Who will create the data? Who will verify them? • Who will distribute and make them accessible? • How will public data be funded? • Who will create services for use by citizens? Shift from public to private to citizen? • Forward planning, horizon scanning opportunities for research and academia. • Bringing data, technology and ideas together • Mash-ups through technology, distributed via the web, • innovative ideas and analysis organically grown, ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010

23. References • Uk Location programme and INSPIRE • http://location.defra.gov.uk • LGA website http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=1094975 • AGI website: www.agi.org.uk • Contact: gesche.schmid@lga.gov.uk ESRC Geospatial workshop, 19 Jan 2010