[open-government] Measuring open data success in local govt

[Thimo Thoeye]

Thank you very much for your valuable references!
For now I think it would be most pragmatic to go with the Open Data
Barometer, allthough we need to adjust a few measures to be applicable at
the local gov't level. But this is a very helpful tool!

I will keep you posted on our progress.

@Rufus, thank you for the invitation. I will surely follow the discusssions
there.

Kind regards,
Thimo


On 12 December 2013 10:01, Benjamin Worthy <b.worthy at bbk.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Dear Thimo and everyone else,
>
>
> Please see my paper here on Open Data at local government in the UK-still
> provisional but I hope it helps
>
> Worthy, Ben, David Cameron's Transparency Revolution? The Impact of Open
> Data in the UK (November 29, 2013). Available at SSRN:
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=2361428
>
> or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.236142
>
> Best,
>
> Ben
>
> Lecturer in Politics
> Birkbeck College, University of London
> Email: b.worthy at bbk.ac.uk
> Tel: 02030738047
> see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/politics/our-staff/academic/ben-worthy
> View my research on my SSRN Author page:
> http://ssrn.com/author=1897482
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-government on behalf of Rufus Pollock
> Sent: Thu 12/12/2013 8:45 AM
> To: Thimo Thoeye
> Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [open-government] Measuring open data success in local govt
>
> Hi Thimo,
>
> As part of the Open Data Index <http://index.okfn.org/> and associated
> Open
> Data Census <http://census.okfn.org/> we've been tracking key datasets
>
> released by cities starting about a year ago. We're just in the process of
> doing an update of this approach (and so city data is temporarily
> unavailable). If you're interested can I suggest joining the census mailing
> list at:
>
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-data-census
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
>
> On 10 December 2013 18:00, Thimo Thoeye <thimothoeye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Since this is my first post to this list I would like to introduce
> myself,
> > my name is Thimo Thoeye. I'm a software engineer and open data enthusiast
> > currently working for local government (City of Ghent, Belgium)
> >
> > The city of Ghent has an open data programme (see http://data.gent.be),
> > characterized by community interaction. We are looking to expand it and I
> > have been asked to devise a quantitative performance indicator to monitor
> > our progress.
> >
> > I don't want to fall in the 'number of datasets' trap and maintain focus
> > on the impact on transparency and life in the city. I realize this isn't
> > too straightforward so I would be very grateful if you can point me to
> any
> > prior work (being) done on this subject
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Thimo
> >
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