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

Sun Oct 30 10:28:02 UTC 2011

Deawr Annti,

1. never heard on any similar initiatives across
Europe.

2. 90 percent of OGD are historical government
sources as for instance public registers, where
the initiative comes decades too late. Only few
NEW government sources are set up from scratch. 

3. 99 percent of all obstacles relate to legal and
organistional barriers and not to the lack
transmission and distribution standards and
channels. 

4. the establishment of public statutory registers
has never been subject to a public procurement
procedure in Austria. For various reasons: most of
those most valuable public registers contain
partly sensitive data and they are set up by
internal departments or a public service provider.
You may re-use data of your public company
register and land register, but these registers
were never subject to public tendering.

Kind regards,

Gerahrd

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org
[mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] Im
Auftrag von Antti Poikola
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011 11:19
An: open-government at lists.okfn.org; David Eaves
Betreff: [open-government] OGD in the IT system
procurement cycle

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-d
own )

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

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