 Mae'r first speaker is Jenny Tennyson, who's Technic and Director at the Open Data Institute, which is a relatively new body, I think. Jenny has worked for a long time on link data on data.gov UK and continues this work now both on the UK government link data group and the open data user group. Jenny is going to talk to us about the changes and challenges of the move towards an open and transparent culture for both government departments and charities, Iwn ffordd. Thank you. My name is Jane Chenison I am the technical director at the ODI ODI is a relatively new body and not-for-profit that has set up who's mission is to spread the word of open data to support organisations who want to use it. What I'm going to talk about is first of all we have moved to open data that we're seeing for two main reasons both for scalability and transparency reasons and also because of the opportunities that open data brings to business and other organisations. I'm going to talk a bit about skills and capabilities and how we support people who are trying to use open data and the kinds of challenges that that throws up. I am going to talk just a bit at the end about the role of the Open Data Institute that we're doing there in order to help support organizations that are working with open data. I got my slides-in very later, my excuse is that yesterday was the launch of the Shakespeare Review and I wanted to put in some quotes. This is a quote from the Shakespeare Review yesterday, which was released about public sector information and how we can make best use of public sector information. Imagine if we could combine all the data we produce ac rwy'n dda i yw'r ddweud i wneud ei fdydd ydyn ni. Yn hyn oedd y pryd yn ymddangosio, gyd yn gallu'n gweithio'n dda i ddano o wybodaeth mynd i'w ddyn ni i wna edrych wedi ymddangosio i gweithio'n gweithio'r ddynnu some dychwynfodol a'r ddysgu ymddangosio oedd gennymol sy'n ddynnu llwynt ac faith mae'n ddynnu llwynt ar ymddangosio. Rwy'n ddynnu llythedur gwybod ddynnu llythedur That's kind of the classic thing is simply having a license on it. Which means that you can reuse it as you will, that you're not limited by the interests of the priorities you look at. The other thing that's important, not only that I want to be able to do what we're going to do, while we're doing it in a way that the people they use are going to do, that are going to be available to everyone to use. Not being limited by the funding that they have. So, even if they have small businesses that are just starting up and don't i chi'n fwyllwch. Llyrdaeth yn ei wneud iawn i'r ddau arfer o ran o'r ddau iawn. Mae'r ddau iawn i gydig o'r llysgwysig, oedd y gallwn i'n gweithio'r ddau'r ddau sydd. Ond maen nhw'n gweithio'n ddau o'r format ystod. Darfodd rydyn ni'n credu cysylltu'n i'r ddau, i'r cymdeithasol, a'r cywir o'r ddau, ond wrth i'r ddau rhaid o'r ddau. If we're expecting people to build businesses, expecting people to make decisions off the back of the data that we're publishing and making available, then we need to provide some reliability to that information. We need to make it trustworthy. If people are going to be mortgaging their homes so that they can build businesses, they need to know that that supply of information is going to be there in the long term and that they can rely on it. So we're aiming towards, at the Open Data Institute, we're aiming towards not just Open Data that is any old stuff, but Open Data that is good enough quality for people to build on and make decisions on. A move to Open Data is being driven by two kinds of motivations. Over the last few years, we've seen a very strong set of motivations which are around accountability, making transparent what we are doing, particularly in the public sector. Some of that is coming through regulation which I'll just go into in a second, but some of it is simply coming about because of citizen expectation. We expect to know more about what organisations are doing. The other side of the coin for Open Data is about opportunity, the opportunity to reach more people with the information that you have, the opportunity for efficiencies, greater efficiencies, particularly around collaboration with our partners, with our suppliers. So I'll just talk about these in a bit more detail. As far as our accountability goes, we've recently had the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which introduces rights to data for those making freedom of information requests. And what that means is that whereas for freedom of information, then you have the right to get hold of documents, the right to be informed about what's going on. With the right to data, you get the right to analyse the data that was used in order to make those decisions, to visualise it, to combine it with other information. And what the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 means is that anybody who makes an FOI request can say, I want the data for this made available in machine-readable form. Thank you very much. And you have to comply if you're FOI-able. That means machine-readable and also under an appropriate licence where the recommendation is to make that an open licence, so one where people can reuse that data as they will. But this is part of a more general movement. If we look at some of the things that have come up with the horse meat scandal and so forth, what we see is a general move towards transparency, towards making information available. This is Tesco food news site where you can find out the information behind the products that Tesco is selling. And the reason that they've got it there is because they understand that people don't have trust in their products because of the horse meat scandal, and they want to be transparent in order to get that trust back again. So we're seeing open data as being a way of engendring trust from your customers. The other side of the coin, as I said, is opportunity, the other reason we see movement towards open data is opportunity. If you look at what's happened in film, music, in newspapers, in software and what is now happening in data, is that we have massive shifts in demand because of the internet, basically. Now that those pieces of content and information can be shared very easily, people expect them to be available very, very cheaply or for free. And that means that organisations who have subsisted on selling that kind of content and data are now finding that they have to shift their business models towards something that is more sustainable in the new kind of culture. So the way that we try and help people to see through this is to view open data not as a value proposition, not something that you are, not data is something that you sell, but data is something that you have as a resource that you can help with the rest, that can help with the rest of your business. So use it as a tool to improve the rest of the value that you supply. So for example, when you view data as a resource that you can use to help the rest of your business, you can see it as a way of enhancing the services that you offer by providing data on top of the services that you offer, then you provide an enhanced service. You get more, you get improved and informed customer relationships because people can dive into the information more easily. And you get more diverse channels because as people build on top of the data, then they provide you different mechanisms of getting it out. So for example, being used in apps on your mobile, for example, even if you can't develop them yourselves within your organisation, other people can and therefore you get these extra channels to your customers. The bits that make me most excited around using open data are how it can help with efficiencies internally within your organisation, how using data can make you more informed and help inform your key activities and how it can lower your costs because you're dealing with better information and therefore making better decisions. And the way that open data plays in here is by aiding the communication with your key partners. Your key partners can help to enhance the data that you are working with and that data can be available to you. The project that I worked on before coming into the Open Data Institute was Legislation Gov UK, where we wanted to bring the nation's statute book up to date and the team within government was simply too small and under resourced in order to do that itself. The number of effects that would have to be applied editorial just was packing up and up and up. And what we did with Legislation Gov UK was bring in private sector to help us to enhance that information and to bring it up to date. But by making it available as open data, those private partners could benefit from the changes that they and other people have made in a collaborative way. And we see that happening with music brains with Open StreetMap and with other kinds of activities. So open data provides us with a facility for better collaboration with our partners, better data and lots of cost savings as a result. So what does this mean in terms of capability? Another quote from Shakespeare of you. Many existing businesses will have to engage with big data in order to survive. But we need to have the skills in order to do that. Few will have the capacity to innovate and create new approaches. So there's a real skills gap in the marketplace at the moment between people who, for the kinds of things that we need to do with data to get the best out of data. And from an open data perspective, these come in two kinds of categories, capabilities. First of all, around data publishing. Of course there's the technical capability in terms of publishing data on the web, providing APIs, providing dumps, understanding how to make big data available. But there are also capabilities around the business and legal frameworks for providing open data. I talked about the opportunities, about the necessary changes in business models as open data becomes part of our culture. We lack the expertise in applying those new business models to our organisations. The other aspect with open data is to get the best out of it, you have to engage a community. The more people that are engaged with your data, the more they are building on it, the better value you get out of it. So there is also capability around digital engagement. From the data reuse side and using it to make decisions, there's capabilities in terms of analysing data, in terms of visualising it, in extracting the stories that make sense to people to use it in order to properly weigh the decisions that you make. And big companies, they can buy in that kind of talent for analysis. But in the public sector, in the third sector, small businesses, you have other priorities about the kind of people that you want in. And although this data is extremely useful, actually getting hold of that talent is quite difficult. The way I picture it is that we're asking people to leap over a high bar. I say it's not as high as pictured, this is just an analogy. And there are three ways in which we can address leaping over this high bar. First of all, you can train a person. You can get them if we take the pole vaulting analogy. You can get them exercising. You can show them the techniques. You can put them through a training programme that gets them fit enough and ready in order to make those leaps. But there are other things that we can do too. We can provide the tools, the stick for pole vaulting, or a springboard, or a rocket pack that can get you over that bar. So we need to be working on tools around publication, around analysis of data, around visualisation of data, but also the tools that help people to make the business cases, that help people to understand the legal framework, that help people to understand the procurement side of what they need to do, the contracts that they need to put together in order to maximise the benefits from open data. We can also cheat by lowering the bar a bit, making it just a bit easier, in order to get into a positive spiral where we can just gradually raise that bar again. One thing is that better quality data, data that is published better, is easier to reuse. So that lowers the bar for people who want to reuse it. So one way of helping people who want to reuse data is not training them or providing tools, but getting the publication process right, so that the data is published in a way that's easy to use. Of course, for publishers, that doesn't help. How do we lower the bar for publishers? Well, we focus on getting to a quality that actually makes a difference. So trying to get to a place where people are publishing just in CSV, rather than in Excel, would be a massive step, for example. So focusing on the quality that makes the difference, rather than the quality that for now doesn't add a massive amount of value for people who are wanting to use open data. So Open Data Institute, where I work, is trying to build this and support this new world of open data, help organisations who are publishing data, help organisations who are consuming data, and, most importantly, help them to come together and talk to each other. We're a non-profit, as I said. We have five years' worth of funding from TSB, but we're also getting matched funding from commercial organisations. And our mission is to unlock that supply, unlock that demand for open data, and to show the value, to talk about it and to communicate it. In terms of raising capability, which is one of the things that we're trying to do, we provide training. So we have a series of Friday lunchtime lectures, which are really fun, always on different topics, and a series of taught short courses in order to help people to get to grips with open data. Not just the technical aspects, but also, as I say, the legal aspects and the business aspects. We also have help and advice online. We try to make everything that we do open by default. And so we have lots of guides online. We also offer consultancy services. And we're also trying to build the tools that will help people to publish and to consume open data. The tool that we're working on mostly at the moment is this open data certificate, which is a kind of interactive questionnaire that helps lead you through the decisions that you need to make when you are thinking about publishing open data, from a legal perspective, from a practical perspective of creating a regular supply, from a technical perspective, and also the kinds of social things that you can provide in order to aid reuse of your data. And that's it. That's my talk. Adapt into an open data world. Thank you very much.