Driving governments with data

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Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes @_cmfg @etalab I Singapore, 5 May 2016 Driving Government With Data The use of open data and datascience in public decision-making in France

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Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes @_cmfg @etalab I Singapore, 5 May 2016

Driving Government With DataThe use of open data and datascience in public decision-making in France

Software x Civic Tech x Multitude

The State as a Platform

Etalab: a global data strategy

Gouvernment

Ouvert

Data

Science

&

Big Data

Open

Data

Data.gouv.fr: an open platform for open data

The 3 premises of France’s open data

Value = Reuses General-interest data

welcome

Social Open Data

An open database geolocalizingthe traffic fatalities

Citizens’ reuses informing the decisions of local authorities

Preventing traffic fatalities with open data

Partners: Geographical Institute,Post Office & OpenStreetMap

200 millions of API calls – OpenCode & API

No Data / No Single Data base ? Co-produce it!

Chief Data Officer, a new role within the State

3 Datascience proofs of concept

Preventing car theft Predicting job openings

Negociating energy

Through forums Through events

#1: Create a public data culture & community

#2: Experiment with open data, then datascience

Open the black box

« Our world, awash in data, willrequire new techniques to ensurealgorithmic accountability,leading the next-generation ofcomputational journalists to fileFreedom of Information requestsfor code, not just data, enablingthem to reverse engineer howdecisions and policies are beingmade by programs in the publicand private sectors.”– Alex Howard, Tech Republic

Open code, not just data. The exemple of #CodeImpot.

#3: Design a citizens’ feedback loop

Any questions?

Merci !

Claire-Marie Foulquier-Gazagnes @_cmfg @etalab

[email protected]