[open-government] OGD in the IT system procurement cycle

Wed Oct 26 09:19:26 UTC 2011

Hello,

David Eaves raised a very good point (1) during the last weeks Open 
Government Data Camp in Warsaw. I augmented the idea from technical 
point of wiew (2).

(1) Open Data should be routinely included as a requirment when new 
information systems are procured for the public sector bodies.
(2) Technically the new Governmental websites and portals should be 
built on top API:s that could be then easily opened for others to use. ( 
See for example http://www.slideshare.net/JeniT/data-all-the-way-down )

Currently I am helping out the Finnish enviromental agency in their 
procurement- and specification process for new data intensive systems. 
There for I ask if you have any concrete examples on how the open data 
was taken into account in some public sector IT system procurement 
process. Any links, hints and thoughts are wellcome.

Best Regards,
Antti Poikola