How the Next Generation Data.Gov Platform Accelerates

Open Government Plans

Hyon Kim and Charles Blanchet

Presenters

• Charles Blanchet, VP of Sales, Socrata– Been in the gov’t transparency world for 7 years– Over 800 projects – Worked with all levels of government all 50 states– Passion is figuring-out the win, win, win, win

• Save Staff time• Cut Costs• Improve Service• Passive & Free Transparency

Agenda

We read OG Plans with the goal of finding some common themes that were related to the Next Generation data.gov Platform . . .

• Driving Transparency, Participation & Collaboration• Mobile Enablement• Data Aggregation

Citizens Prefer to Explore Data On-Line vs. Downloading by a margin of 4-1

Survey of 1,000 diverse US adultsView the Full Report: http://www.socrata.com/benchmark-study/

data.gov Classic User Experience

• Online exploration not available• Public value add is not captured• No easy way to share to social grid• Inconsistent User Experience

Transparency

Next Generation data.gov platform data exploration• Downloading not Required• Filter• Visualize• Consume Other Views• Search

Share to the social grid (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, email) - Citizens Promote Content- More Eyes on your Content- Healthy Debate is Fostered

Participation

Participation

Sign-up and Sign-in• Become and Official Member of the Community• Contribute to the Content and Discussion• Receive Feedback • Use Existing Accounts

- Citizens can Save Filters and Visualizations - The public can now influence how data is viewed!!- Harness the public’s collective wisdom!!

Participation & Collaboration

Get feedback you did not anticipate

Make better decisions

Comments are interactive

Discussions can be moderated or not

Collaboration

Mobile Enablement

Mobile Enablement

Out of the Box Application Development Other Ideas

Next Generation data.gov Platform works with all Smart Phone Browsers . . . Out-of-the-box!!

iPhone using Safari Browser

Mobile Enablement

Mobile Enablement

Mobile Application Development

Harness Civic Developers via a Developer’s SiteSODA: Socrata Open Data API: http://dev.socrata.com/

It is possible to create your own http://dev.agency.com/

Documentation

Sample Code

Register Applications

Application Gallery

Support

Developer Community

Videos

Mobile Enablement

Mobile Enablement

Mobile EnablementThank You for Calling

SAMHSA

Mobile can mean Text and IVR . . .

OTHER IDEAS

Data Aggregationidentify data that exists within its program and support areas, aggregate it, store it in one centralized service, and then publish it on Data.gov

is planning to post new summary aggregate data

aggregate enforcement data

Data Aggregation

• Is this an easy problem to tackle?• Data.gov struggles to get data from departments, do departments

struggle to get data from sub-agencies?• Why?• What are you doing to address it?

The Next Generation data.gov Platform can help . . .

Data Consolidation

• Next Generation data.gov Platform comes with a Data Federation API.

• Work with Socrata, 3rd parties or in-house• What is Data Federation?

– Video: http://www.socrata.com/datagov/open-data-federation-video/ – CB’s Light Bulb Moment

• What are some Benefits?– Agency Branding– Share data on your sites– Publishing data to data.gov = auto pilot– Mission oriented benefits and service delivery

Data Consolidation

• Data Federation Benefits continued . . . – Puts control in the hands of people down the org hierarchy

• Less fear

– Goal alignment. • Helps the people you need help from• Not just checking a box

– Share all data or some datasets

Questions? Comments?

Q & A

Embrace the possibilities!

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