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

Sun Oct 30 11:57:33 UTC 2011

Hi,

At Fire Department Amsterdam-Amstelland ( Netherlands ) in a recent 
project description involving deployment of a IT solution 'Linked Data' 
was specifically mentioned. The motivation for this is the struggle 
there currently is to obtain data from all the internal systems to get 
Business Intelligence data.
The reason there is no Open in this proposal is that its about strategic 
information in deployment plans.
The 'Linked Data' was primarily used to make future extensions and 
innovation simpler than it is now.
Never the less its a nice indication that the ideas are shifting in the 
right direction.

Besides that there is currently work under way to start opening up 
real-time linked data about ongoing incidents. This however is not 
really related to strategic IT decisions made during obtaining the 
systems in use.

Bart

Op 26-10-11 11:19, Antti Poikola schreef:
> 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
>
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