[ok-scotland] Fwd: okfn-en Digest, Vol 14, Issue 11

Fri Mar 28 09:40:58 UTC 2014

Hi everyone,

The following posts seem pretty interesting on a UK-wide basis. Should we think about sharing a UK-wide mailing list with okfn-en? Or should Scots just decide for themselves if they want to subscribe to okfn-en at lists.okfn.org?

—Ewan

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Commonalities in the census (TLMCN)
>   2. Wikimania: Final Call for Submissions (Edward Saperia)
>   3. Re: Lincoln missing from UK cities census (Rufus Pollock)
>   4. Outcome of the UK Cabinet Office "Hack for Early
>      Intervention" (Gianfranco Cecconi)
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> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:11:53 +0000
> From: TLMCN <thomas at enventeco.co.uk>
> To: okfn-en at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [OKFN-EN] Commonalities in the census
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> Seems that the answers relating to Crime and Food Hygiene are the same
> across the board and dealt with by the same agencies.
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> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:13:48 +0900
> From: Edward Saperia <ed at wikimanialondon.org>
> To: okfn-en at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [OKFN-EN] Wikimania: Final Call for Submissions
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> Hi all,
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> As you may know, Wikimedia's annual flagship event Wikimania is coming to
> London for the first time in August. This will be the largest gathering of
> Wikimedians ever, a 4000-person conference, unconference, festival, meetup,
> workshop, hackathon, and party, spread over five days in The Barbican
> Centre, and I'm hoping many from OKFN will be attending.
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> I'm writing to let you know that the call for submissions closes on the
> 31st, so this weekend is your last chance to put something together if
> you'd like to present. It's a fairly informal event, so submissions don't
> have to be very developed; just some idea of who you are, what you're
> working on and what you'd like to talk about; the event page will give you
> some ideas of what kind of material will be covered: www.wikimanialondon.org
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> Any questions, for more details or if you have trouble submitting, don't
> hesitate to contact me directly.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:20:41 +0000
> From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> To: Shane Mitchell <mitch_shane at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "okfn-en at lists.okfn.org" <okfn-en at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [OKFN-EN] Lincoln missing from UK cities census
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> On Tuesday, 25 March 2014, Shane Mitchell <mitch_shane at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Rufus,
>> 
>> Actually that's a can of worms on what is missing. You also don't have
>> Truro, which is a city and the capital of Cornwall.
>> 
> 
> Very true. The first pass list of cities was, I think, just a list of all
> cities in the UK with more than 200k population.
> 
> 
>> Also, several places are towns. So, why not places like Eastbourne (100k
>> population).
>> There I have been asking the questions about open data, to which the
>> council leader looks like i'm talking French.
>> 
> 
> that's great! (that you are asking questions). I guess my concern here is
> that we could systematically add all towns >= 100k but we'd end up with a
> lot of cities (my guess is ~200 (?)). I'd prefer we add one by one as we
> have people who are interested in looking up the data for those cities.
> 
> 
>> Happy to try to populate the data for there though, to prove my point to
>> the council, that it is a phenomena that is happening :)
>> 
> 
> That would be great. Would you like Eastbourne added?
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 
>> Shane
>> 
>> 
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>> On Tue, 25/3/14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [OKFN-EN] Lincoln missing from UK cities census
>> To: "Alex Bilbie" <hello at alexbilbie.com <javascript:;>>
>> Cc: "okfn-en at lists.okfn.org <javascript:;>" <okfn-en at lists.okfn.org<javascript:;>
>>> 
>> Date: Tuesday, 25 March, 2014, 16:10
>> 
>> Hi Alex,
>> You're quite right that it was missing and
>> that is now fixed! Given your enquiry, would you be
>> interested in helping to complete Lincoln's entries :-)
>> ?
>> 
>> Rufus
>> 
>> On 24 March 2014
>> 16:23, Alex Bilbie <hello at alexbilbie.com <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The UK cities census (http://gb-city.census.okfn.org/)
>> is missing Lincoln as a city.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Alex
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> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:25:07 +0000
> From: Gianfranco Cecconi
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> Subject: [OKFN-EN] Outcome of the UK Cabinet Office "Hack for Early
> 	Intervention"
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> All,
> I have spent the last three days participating to the Cabinet Office's "Hack for Early Intervention", organised for them by Rewired State. The objective was supporting Local Authority Commissioners change their approach to budgeting for social intervention, pushing the moment of action to when the problems can still be prevented rather than managing the crisis later.
> 
> Open data was king as you may have expected, and I was very vocal during the first day - together with Spend Network's Ian Makgill (https://spendnetwork.com) who was there as a subject matter expert - to educate the few participants who were new to the concept. 
> 
> At the centre of attention was a very interesting Government open dataset I was not aware of: the "(social intervention) unit cost database", listing the cost to the public administration of items such as one year of Job Seeker's Allowance, the annual cost to the NHS of alcohol dependency, per year per dependent drinker etc.. If you can cope with the idea of thinking of people in difficulty in terms of figures in a balance sheet, the tool is great for building business cases for social intervention and Social Impact Bonds (or SIBs, http://data.gov.uk/sib_knowledge_box/). The database is supposedly released under OGL but you won't find references to it if you downloaded it today (surprised?).
> 
> You can find my open notes from the first, "ideation" day at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JRz0d8Cr9aRFUqm7kxMtvwqBOdQbSTm9859jxEZ0Sl0/edit?usp=sharing . The list of projects developed for the hackathon is at http://hacks.rewiredstate.org/events/hack_for_early_intervention . 
> 
> My contribution was the "LASI" project: a platform for LA Commissioners to work collaboratively rather than in isolation. Together with my team, we addressed one issue in particular: the way Local Authority budget is administered makes Commissioners only responsible for social issues that "end" in their Local Authority, but not for the ones that "start" there. Using open data from the Census 2011, the unit cost database and other sources such as open data issued by non-profit (e.g. Shelter for homelessness http://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/housing_databank ) we created an "observatory" for LA Commissioners to:
> - check the status of their LAs vs "issues that move" (homelessness, domestic violence...) 
> - forecast that migration, e.g. from the less to the more wealthy towns and counties, and
> - hopefully, work together to intervene early and either prevent the move, or prepare to welcome these people in need.
> http://dico.im/cabinet-office-lasi 
> 
> In theory, all projects are (C) Cabinet Office (it was a condition we had to accept to participate) until we get a formal weaver. They told us this was necessary in case we used Government proprietary / confidential data, but this was not the case for any of the projects in the end. 
> 
> Let me know if you want to know more.
> 
> G.
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