O D I _ O P E N D ATA L E A D E R S ’ N E T W O R KI R E N A B O J A D Z I E V S K A , P H D

I R E N A . B O J A D Z I E V S K A @ G M A I L . C O M

MANAGING OPEN DATA CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT

OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP

OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP

OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP

INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT ON NATIONAL LEVEL

OGP• Government Declaration• Political commitments

(MFA, MISA)• National Action Plans (3)• Working groups per OGP

priority• Public Administration

and Civil Society Organizations, IRM (observer)

Open data• Political leadership (MISA,

committee on innovations and entrepreneurship)

• Open data team• Open data priorities• Open Data WG (national

and international)• Open data in national

strategic documents• NGOs projects on open

data

OPEN DATA DIVERSITY LINKS

Associated policesDirect impact policies• Freedom of Information Act• Public Sector Information

Reuse Directive • Data protection• Big Data

Indirect Impact polices• Cloud Computing Services• Information and Network

Security

Associated politics• E-governnance

(Transparency, Accountability, Openness)

• Public administration reform

• Research and development• Academia and open access • Entrepreneurship and

Employability• Innovation

HOW TO IMPLEMENT OPEN DATA ON NATIONAL LEVEL

• What is lead institution of open data?• Is it an executive agency?• If not, how is it related with the executive?• Is there a policy on open data?• How to you implement it?• How to you assess the level of its

implementation?• What enforcement mechanisms are at disposal?• Do we use political authority to unblock stuff?

THE AGENCIES APPROACH TO OPEN DATA

Open data friends• Trainings• Fast track results• Priority on the portal

and institutional help• Own interests

Open data enemies• Knowledge• Income• HR• Political will• Lack of ownership

PROMOTE OPEN DATA RESULTS

Ex. “Government mirror” (applied for OGP award)

• Open legislative consultations (ENER)- MISA• Monitoring ENER – CSO• Publish “Government Mirror Data” on ENER• Frequently Requested Information through the

Freedom of Information Act • Get the credit for publishing the data

APPLICATIONS BUILT ON OPEN DATA

Ex. “My Air”• Environment agency is the data holder• App built on data not from the source (not in open

data format)• Release environment agency data for the app• Get the credit fro open data

THE OPEN DATA PORTAL

THE OPEN DATA LOOP

POLITICSPOLICYLOBBYING/TRAININGRESULTS

HOW TO SECURE HR SUSTAINABILITY

• Engage with the Open data team at all times• Organize trainings for the team – talk to the HR

department• Organize trainings for all government agencies that

are active and the once you want to make be active• Put open data as part of the courses/training

programmes for civil servants or relate it to already existing training

• Invite students and developers to your trainings• Invite NGOs to your trainings/meetings• Attend NGOs trainings and meetings

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Have substantial knowledge on open data (gives you arguments in favour of)• Have a solid knowledge of best practices (case

studies and stories)• Have strong communication skills • Motivation skills• Team building skills• Reporting skills• Strategic planning

DIVERSE TEAM

Know the open data policy

Know the related policies

Reporting skills

Have IT specialists

Research skills

PR/social media skills

Metadata for opendata.gov.mk - Development of an OGD Metadata Standard for Macedonia Version 1Catalogue A catalogue or repository that hosts the

Datasets being described. (Catalogue describing the data available at opendata.gov.mk) 

www.opendata.gov.mkMandatory properties: dataset description publisher title

Dataset A conceptual entity that represents the information published. (A dataset included in the catalog, e. g. "Budget of the City of Skopje")

Mandatory properties: description title

Distribution A link to a file or API where the data is located, e. g. to a CSV-file, JSON-File or API-URL

Mandatory properties: access-URL

Agent An entity that is associated with Catalogues and/or Datasets. (Class for organisations involved in creating the catalogue.)

Mandatory properties: name: “Ministry of Information Society

and Administration”Vocabularies Vocabularies used for certain properties, e. g. lists

of categories or languages 

Licenses Public Domain CC-0 CC-BY

Language MKD ALB ENG

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OPEN DATA ON LOCAL LEVEL

Project ”Putting people first”

• Civil society and the British Embassy in Macedonia• Enhancing capacities of civil society organizations

(CSO) in endorsing open local government policies for effective participation in the development, decision making, creating public opinion and monitoring of the policies at national and local level• Identified all municipalities data to be open based

on what the citizens asked for

OPEN DATA ECOSYSTEM

Government

Civil Society

SMEsAcademia

Journalists

UN E-GOV SURVEY 2014

THE OPEN DATA INSTITUTE/PUBLICATIONS