LEARNINGS FROM THE DUTCH EXPERIENCE:

Data for

Citizen Participation and Inclusive Governance

November 2023

https://slides.com/palinuro/tha-november-2023/

Paul Suijkerbuijk

Chantal Vedder

Paul Suijkerbuijk

Ministry of interior and kingdom relations

• Founder of data.overheid.nl
• Open data policy
• Open Governement expertise center

Association of Dutch municipalities

• Energy transition
• Criminality undermining public authority
• Publication of election results

Board member dutch chapter Internet Society (ISOC)

Masterclass 'NetPolitics'

Masterclass Internet Governance

Experiences of an open government expert in a Dutch context!

Questions?

IMPACT

But.....

A challenge for governments

It's our first step

It is out of date / too old

We don't have enough bandwidth

We cannot confirm nor denay that we have it

The files are too large

There is no businesscase

It's not our job

We don't know if it's legal

No time / no resources

It's incomplete

It costs too much

It's secret

It's privacy sensitive

We only have it on paper

They can get it through WOB

Management says no

It has commercial value

It doesn't contain value

Commercially sensitive

The quality is unknown

It's not in a usable format

It's not ours, and we don't know whose it is

We already published the date (at an unfindable place in an unusable format)

I'm not authorised

We don't know where it is

Image damage for the minister

It's not ready yet

We've never done it before

People will misuse it

Our supplier will ask an astronomical amount of money to make a data extract

We know there's errors in the data and people will start sending us improvements which we'll have to deal with

Way too many people will download the data, attacking our servers

People will get mad about what they'll find out

We'll make it open (but change 90%)

People will extract the wrong things from it

It becomes dangerous if it would be combined

It leads to unnecessary discussions

The data isn't ours and we don't have consent from the owner

No idea what people could do with it

The government will lose its reputation

We don't gather the data in a structured way

It's findable, but they can't access it

Our website cannot host large files

A challenge for governments

Challenge

Government publish everything they can

All data

All data

yes

What can be opened

no

yes

What can be opened

no

FOIA

yes

What can be opened according to government

no

Risks

yes

What can be opened according to society

no

Opportunities

yes

a grey area

no

Opportunities

Risks

yes

Legal....

no

Opportunities

Risks

Lawyers

yes

Culture

no

Opportunities

Risks

Lawyers

Culture Change

Challenge

Publish Open Data and it will be used

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

Elderly

Farmers

Disabled people

Children

Business owners

Students

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

Public transport

Unemployment

Elderly

Farmers

Disabled people

Children

Business owners

Pollution

Students

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

Public transport

Unemployment

Elderly

Farmers

Disabled people

Children

Business owners

Pollution

Students

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

?

Public transport

Unemployment

Elderly

Farmers

Disabled people

Children

Business owners

Pollution

Students

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

Public transport

Unemployment

Elderly

Farmers

Disabled people

Children

Business owners

Pollution

Students

Healthcare

Security

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Social care

Education

Search for a shared interest

Survive the first 15 minutes

Don't push your government button

Talk!

Challenge

The concept of Open Data is understood

Challenge

Governments will start solving societal challenges with Open Data

Challenge

Citizens want to be involved in gathering and using Open Data

Air quality as measured by RIVM

Challenge

Government needs to use this new data in some way

Challenge

Technology

Source: Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples, Goodfellow et al, ICLR 2015.

 Data for participation

Now it is your turn :-)

You are a civil servant responsible for fighting corruption in your country

1. Make groups of 3

2. Each group member individually writes down 3 datasets important for fighting corruption.

3. 1 dataset is open data, 2 datasets are closed data.

4. Discuss the datasets you have written down.

Disaster!!

Your datasets are stolen by thieves who want to do really bad!!

(and now you are the thief ;-)

Discuss with your group how you can make an application which is really criminal and will make you rich ;-)

Examples

10000 scholen

Roudle

Kan ik een korte broek aan

OV radar

Boeteradar

Best wel snel

Tweede Kamer

Brugradar

Fietsongevallen

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