For de late, bloggposten oppsumert på en twitter-melding:
Den lange versjonen under:
Mange snakker om åpne offentlige data for tiden. Data det offentlige generer og slipper fri slik at publikum og andre interessenter kan benytte seg av dem for å analysere og/eller lage tjenester. I Norge ser vi en sped start med http://data.norge.no, men sammenliknet med britenes satsning så er det ikke mye å skryte av.
De gjør det ikke hovedsakelig for å være snille og for å blidgjøre entusiaster. Det er økonomi og verdiskapning som er drivkraften:
A recent report estimated the current total direct and indirect economic value of public sector information at €140 billion per year for the EU27 (Vickery/ EU Commission, 2011)1. This suggests that similar information in the UK is already worth in the region of £16 billion a year. Kilde: Further detail on Open Data measures announced in the Autumn Statement 2011, Cabinet Office
Liste over tiltak som blir presentert i Autumn Statement fra Cabinet Office (se lenken over):
- Linking primary and secondary healthcare datasets – The Government will provide a service to link primary and secondary healthcare datasets from September 2012 to reinforce the UK’s position as a global centre for research and analytics and boost UK life sciences.
- Publishing prescribing data – The Government will publish further prescribing data by September 2012 and additional health and social care datasets by September 2013 to support health and social care data-based product and analytics markets.
- Train and bus data – The Government will work with the transport industry to make available by April 2012 timetable and real-time train and bus information to support the development of innovative applications to improve passenger journeys.
- Rail fares data – The Government will consult in early 2012, through the Fares and Ticketing Review, on providing open access to rail fares data, giving passengers and business better information and enabling them to make the most cost-effective travel choices.
- Civil Aviation Authority – The Government plans to legislate to give the Civil Aviation Authority the power to publish data on the performance of aviation service providers, to enable users of air freight and passenger services to make the most cost-effective choices.
- Highways and traffic data – The Government will release from March 2012 a range of highways and traffic data, including on road works, to help reduce congestion and enable business to make more predictable travel and logistics decisions.
- Fit note data – The Government will consult on the content of anonymised fit note data to be published from 2012 to drive innovation in the occupational health sector and improve management of sickness absence.
- Universal Credit data – The Government will design the Universal Credit ICT system so that aggregate benefits data can be published during the first year of live running of the system.
- Linking welfare data – The Government will consider opportunities for linking welfare datasets to other government and commercial datasets to increase their value to industry.
- Open Data Institute – Government will provide up to £10 million over five years, with match-funding from industry and academia, to establish the world’s first Open Data Institute to help business exploit the opportunities created by release of public data.
- Releasing reference data – The Government will establish a Data Strategy Board and a Public Data Group that will maximise the value of the data from the Met Office, Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry and Companies House. It will make available for free a range of core reference datasets from these bodies to support the development of high-value data businesses.
- Personal data – The Government will ensure all NHS patients can access their personal GP records online by the end of this Parliament. The Government will publish a new procurement arrangement for school information and learning services in spring 2012 to improve parents’ and pupils’ access to education data and increase competition in provision of learning services.
Jeg har ikke satt meg inn hva hvert enkelt punkt betyr, men det som er sikkert er at prosjektet er ambisiøst. Noe Cabinet Office selv sier også:
The Open Data work strand in the Growth Review sets out an ambitious package of measures.
Tiltakene vil særlig komme små og mellomstore bedrifter til gode:
By making access to public data assets possible, these measures will support high-value, high-growth enterprise in a range of sectors – particularly among SMEs.
og små og mellomstore bedrifter er det mange av her i landet:
Små og mellomstore bedrifter utgjør hoveddelen av norsk næringsliv. Over 99 prosent av bedriftene i Norge har 100 ansatte eller færre. (Kilde: Nærings og handelsdep.)
Er det noen grunn til at Norge skal ha mindre ambisiøse mål?
- Åpne data i: http://data.gov.uk
- Åpne data i Norge: http://data.norge.no
