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“Making Public Data Public”:the Commercial opportunity

with Public Sector Information (PSI)

EPublishing Innovation Forum 2010 2

Our story today

• Part 1 - the Walls of Jericho : evolution of a public policy

• Part 2 – the Promised Land? : what might it mean for you?

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www.data.gov.uk


Why PSI is important...• European Union the public

sector accounts it accounts for 42% to 59% of GDP

• 25% of B2B information is PSI derived

• Can be high value:– data– authoritative– uncontested (registrations

etc)– becoming more free ly

available

• Now the focus of a concerted drive to make more accessible

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Cross party

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“Information is the key. An

informed citizen is a powerful

citizen.”- 7 December 2009

“our plans to open up government data and

spending information will not only help us to cut

wasteful spending, it will also create an estimated £6 billion in additional value

for the UK.” - Manifesto April 2010


“The Right to Data Act will give members of the public a legally enforceable ‘Right to Data’, so that the public has the right to appeal if public bodies refuse requests for data collected by government. This radical policy will help transform the culture of the public sector from one that presumes secrecy to one that presumes datasets should be open and shared with the public on an ongoing basis. By releasing data that can be used by businesses and social enterprises, the Right to Data Act will provide a multi-billion pound boost to the UK

economy.”26 May 2010

Queen’s speech...”Right to Data Act”


POLICY EVOLUTION

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Part 1: The Walls of Jericho


Regulation drivers

• Open democracy – empowering the citizen

• Competition law – liberating markets

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Statutory Instrument 2005 No. 1515

The Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005


Efficiency & Innovation

• Need to make Government more efficient

• Elimination of 2800+ websites

• Government and citizen transact digitally

• Industry utilise PSI

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Gershon

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“...in principle Yes Minister, but in practice....”


...fundamental issues of public sector commercial self interest and culture...


Trading Funds

• Government:– Trading Funds– Importance in terms of £££– But more so in terms of

efficiency & culture

• OS particularly important:– Civil defence/disaster

planning– Everything happens in a

place– Growth of geo-spatial

applications

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OS waves the rules

• Restrictive licencing

• Very expensive

• Further restrictions on derived data

• Offended basic principles of regulations and policy– Differential pricing– Cross subsidy– Lack of transparency– Anti-competitive behaviour

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Years of reports....• OFT report and Cambridge

report estimated value of UK PLC of less restrictive licencing of PSI = £1 billion p.a. (i.e. Double the revenues of the Trading Funds)

• Recommended simpler licencing, stronger regulation and transparency between public task and commercial operations of Government bodies

• Plainspeak: open up the data, do away with restrictive licencing and you’ll get more in tax revenues than in Trading Funds profit

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Commercial Use of Public Sector Information (CUPI), 2006

Models of Public Sector Information Provision

via Trading Funds, 2008


Slugging it out...

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http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/home.htm


...deep cultural barriers...

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...further pressure from Cabinet Office...& Power of Information report &

Guardian’s Free Our Data


Further tipping factors

• Obama administration’s commitment to open and collaborative government – creation www.data.gov:– in May 2009, Data.gov had

just 47 data sets. By April 2010, it had more than 168,000

• MPs expenses scandal, May 2009 – need to exemplify transparency

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http://www.data.gov/


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OFTCommerci

al Use of Public

Information

December2006

Power of Information

Report

April2007

CambridgeReport

February2008

Trading Funds

Assessment

November 2009

DigitalBritainFinal

Report

June2009


...final tipping factor...


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The dialog went like this....

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“Tim, what can UK PLC we do to unleash the power of the internet?

“Put all your data online”

“”OK, let’s do

it”


Walls of Jericho fall...

• November 2009 – PM announces that key OS datasets should be free

• January 2010 - Launch of Data Gov UK

• OPSI simplifies licencing and introduces Creative Commons approach

• COI leads new semantic web push for Government websites

• April 2010: launch of OS OpenData & OpenSpace

• May 2010: new Creative Commons public sector licencing

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OS OpenData

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OS OpenSpace

•

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Data Gov UK

•

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3295Datasets

(15/05/10)

US Data Gov went from 47

to 168,000 2009/10


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“Education”

289datasets


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“Prescriptions”673

datasets

Copyright simplifiedYou are free:

With the following conditions:

Read the full licence

to Share — to copy, publish and distribute the content

to Adapt — to adapt the content

Acknowledgment — You need to say who originated the content wherever you publish it.

You must not use the content in a deliberately misleading way.Creative Commons

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OFTCommerci

al Use of Public

Information

December2006

Power of Information

Report

April2007

CambridgeReport

February2008

Trading Funds

Assessment

November 2009

DigitalBritainFinal

Report

June2009

June

2009

Making Public Data

PublicData.Gov.ukOS Opendata

November 2009 –

April 2010

Putting TheFrontline First:SmarterGovernment

TimBerners Lee:GovernmentAdvisor


WHAT MIGHT IT MEAN FOR YOU?

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Part 2: the Promised Land?


Obstacles remain...but opportunities too

• Large scale OS data still charged for

• Future of PAF – postcode address file

• Data Gov UK is just early (and tiny) sampling – a declaration of intent

• Inertia/other preoccupations in Government departments

• Difficulties for private sector in dealing with public sector

• During time it will take, opportunities for early movers

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Credit rating & risk management

• Companies House• Electoral Roll • County Court

Decisions• Postcode address file• postcode + DVLA• plus any other

searchable due diligence data

PSI Publishi

ngRecipes

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• Public Sector Information (PSI):– Environment Agency– BGS– Others

• Own IP:– Historic mapping data

• Mash up:– Reliable/ integrity/

accuracy/updated

• Added Value tools:– Risk management / due diligence

• Brand:– From scratch within 5 years

• Workflow:– Addressed specific issue in target

client workflow

• High growth (now successful DMGT subsidiary)

• Real barriers to entry

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ngRecipes

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• Public Sector Information (PSI):– Department of Health– ONS– Health research sector– Others

• Own IP:– Actually very little in terms of data

• Mash up:– Risk adjustment / independence /

reliability / updated

• Added Value tools:– Healthcare management dashboards /

performance management comparators

• Brand:– From scratch within 5 years

• Workflow:– Addressed specific issue in target client

workflow

• High growth (now 50% owned by Government)

• Real barriers to entry – one chief competitor

PSI Publishi

ngRecipes

3

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Bright ideas...?• Environment Agency

pollutions data – plus geo-coding plus company hierarchy : ranking companies as part of CSR

• DVLR where release of full (anonymised) geo-coded registration data would aid both automotive and general consumer profiling

• HM Courts Services – where there is rafts of unreleased data round bankruptcies and winding up orders etc which would enrich company analyses

• Others...?

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Who we are


• Identify opportunities within your markets & customer workflows – Your Place in the Value Chain workshop

• Discover apposite PSI data opportunities

• Develop relationships within public sector bodies

• Navigate remaining issues: regulatory, cultural, licencing and contractual

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How we can help...


What can you do?

• having your own IP exclusively is great....but not enough

• your true IP is your Brand & knowledge of your customer needs

• Identify which of your customer problems your are trying to solve

• & see if there is relevant public sector information which can enrich your customer experience and your own applications

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