Herbert Kubicek

The Organization Gap in the Provision of Public Information and Open Data

The Case of the City State of Bremen, Germany

The 10 Principles of OGD Add. Efforts / Feasibility

Completeness Complete sets except for legal restrictions

Primacy As collected, incl. details on collection +Timeliness

Ease of physical and electronic access

Barriers are formal procedures e.g. FOIA requests, instead bulk access and APIs

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Machine Readability Widely used formats + documentation +Non - discrimination Any person for any purpose at equal conditions

Use of commonly owned standards

e.g. Open source instead of Microsoft or Adobe / -

Licensing Availability without restrictions / -Permanence Permanent availabiliy incl. archives and version tracking + / Usage cost No charge for collecting the data, no charge for access

as the provision generates tax revenues+ / -

http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/

Do we live in a land of Milk and Honey ? –

Open Government und OGD

3No1No 1 : 11.03.2010

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How does it work ?

No 1 : 1 Relation

Not by a strategy of collecting the low hanging fruits

Different Objectives of OGD

Support of Services

(Government and Business)

Support of Services

(Government and Business)

Research and

Education

Research and

Education

Transparencyof

Government

Documents(Readable by humans)

Data(Readable by machines)

Provision of Public Information(data and documents)

Bremen

Freedom of Information Laws (FoIAs) on State Level (Germany)

• Brandenburg ( März 1998)• Berlin ( Oktober 1999)• Schleswig-Holstein ( Februar 2000)• Nordrhein-Westfalen ( Januar 2002)• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ( Juli 2006)• Hamburg ( August 2006/2012)• Bremen ( August 2006)• Saarland ( September 2006)• Thüringen ( Dezember 2007)• Sachsen-Anhalt ( Oktober 2008)• Rheinland-Pfalz (Januar 2009)

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Quelle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informationsfreiheit

Federal Law 2006

Bremer Informationsregister: 27.750 Docs

7http://www.bremen.de/buergerservice/amtliche_informationen

Mehr als 27.550 amtliche Informationen: Berichte, Beschlüsse, Protokolle, Gerichtsentscheidungen, Verträge

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4/2014: 134 data sets

911.03.2010

Anybody can propose /request data sets via the Portal.(based on § 1 BremIFG)

The traffic light symbol shows the status

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BUT: Raw data do not contribute to transparency

just by themselves

What people are looking for:FOI-Register: Top20-Keywords

Schlagworte (Keywords) Anzahl der Aufrufe (No. of entries)Wohngeld (housing allowance) 254 Wohnungswesen (housing) 175 Bauordnungsrecht (building law) 142 Wohnungshilfen (housing allowance) 112 Bauordnungswesen (building law) 106 Baurecht (building law) 74 Ausländerrecht (imigration law) 39 Deputationen (government bodies) 39 Verwaltungskosten (administration costs) 39 Gewerbe (trade) 38 Steuern(taxes) 34 Allgemeinbildende+Schule (primary schools) 32 Gesetzgebung (legislation) 26 Wohnungsbau (house building) 26 Personalangelegenheiten (personnel matters) 25 Haushalt (budget) 24 Schwerbehindertenrecht (disabled people law) 24 Fahrerlaubnis (drivers licence) 23 Lärmbelästigung (noise disturbance) 23 Arbeitserlaubnis (working permit) 21

Top Data SetsStreet Register 1,119

Budget (State and City) 1,029

Labor Agreements Bremen 2012/2013 472

Open Toilettes 347

Official Maps of Geoinformation Bremen 329

Polling Stations 297

Populatiion by migrant status 281

Starting with 30 for an apps4Bremen Competition in 2011

Number of Registered Documents by Ministry

Ressort 2008 - 2010 2011 2012 10/2013

Senatskanzlei 4 30 6.028 7.208

Senatorin für Soziales, Kinder, Jugend und Frauen

131 117 2.101 3.348

Die Senatorin für Finanzen 114 104 1.436 3.191

Der Senator für Umwelt, Bau und Verkehr

239 167 1.983 3.149

Senatorin für Soziales, Kinder, Jugend und Frauen

131 117 2.101 3.348

Der Senator für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Häfen

176 67 1.161 2.287

Die Senatorin für Bildung und Wissenschaft

30 12 1.358 1.802

Tools for automaticregistration

Compliance Study 2013

Is a culture of the official secret the main reason for a lack of compliance ?

NO YES

The Organization Gap: Central editorial staff can not know what documents are produced in a department

For some kinds of documents authority is already assigned

Recommendation for ordinance:

Pro-active Publication of Raw Data • Much more effort for data than for documents as most

existing legacy system are not ment and suited for external access.

• The City State of Hamburg in 2012 issued a Transparency Law requiring pro-active publication of all government data according to the 10 OGD principles.

• More than 50 administrative systems are checked by more than 30 people (systems check, legal check, programming contracts between 1,000 and 100,000 Euro)

• One time cost > 5 Mio. Euro• Annual cost (maintenance) > 1 Mio. Euro

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Pro-active publication of open data - public consultation April 2014

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IFG

Informations-weiterverwendungs-

gesetz

Umwelt-Informations-gesetz

Verbraucher-informations-gesetz

Urheber-recht

Geodaten-zugangs-gesetz

Daten-schutz-gesetze

Statistik-gesetz

Overlapping legal provisions for public information

INSPIRE Annex III Themes: Provision by 2015Statistical unitsBuildingsSoilLand useHuman health and safetyUtility and Government servicesEnvironmental monitoring facilitiesProduction and industrial facilitiesAgricultural and aquaculture facilitiesPopulation distribution – demographyArea management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting unitsNatural risk zonesAtmospheric conditions...........Habitats and biotopesSpecies distributionEnergy resourcesMineral resources............

Relationsship to OGD:Double collection ? Different metadataTwo plattformsNo coordination?

More onhttp://www.ifib.de and http://www.daten.bremen.de

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