[open-government] Benefit and arguments for open gov data in small local governments

[Julian Tait]

Hi Martin,

Apart from the known benefits of re-connecting people with how government delivers services for and with citizens through evidence based and participatory policy, and efficiency of service provision. I think there are more creative ways of looking at open data and citizen created data that can be impactful in small communities.

I have been having conversations with someone who is interested in setting up an Open Data project in a small town in South-west England and we were looking at the idea of creating a data repository where the citizens themselves co-create the data resource. Creating ownership and understanding. This can then be used to augment and contextualise official data. An example project put forward when tree data was released through the Greater Manchester datastore - DataGM, was community groups mapping trees that weren't present in the official data.

Cheers

Julian Tait
Open Data Cities and DataGM - FutureEverything

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On 22 Jun 2011, at 13:54, Martin Kaltenböck wrote:

> Hi all (and sorry for cross-posting)
> 
> in the course the OGD2011 conference last week in Vienna, Austria (see: http://www.ogd2011.at) 
> we had a discussion about:
> 
> - what are the main benefits of / arguments for open (government) data in (very) small local governments (small town, village, small municipality)
> 
> Anyone having good arguments for this?
> We do have about ~ 3.700 municipalities in Austria - and most of them are very, very small
> So we are collecting arguments & benefits for open data to convince them...
> 
> Many thanks for input on this!!
> 
> Cheers - martin
> 
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