Open Data in Denmark Nordic egovernment Conference Sundsvall, September 25th 2013 Rikke Gram-Hansen Danish Business Authority
Agenda 1. Status on the work with open data 2. The Basic Data Programme 3. Organization 4. Financing the free release of data 5. Challenges
Opening up data in Denmark >> Status on the work
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2012 http://www.digst.dk/loesninger-og-infrastruktur/grunddata
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The Danish egovernment Strategy 2011-2015 >> The Basic Data Programme
The vision Basic data is to be the high-quality common foundation for public sector administration; efficiently updated at one place, and used by everyone including the private sector.
What is basic data? Basic data is authoritative data covering the fundamental information needed for an effective public sector administration Basic data is standardized in the following areas: Geography, roads, and real estate Properties, housing, buildings and addresses Personal identity, residence and family relations Companies and their key related persons Basic data needs to be easier for the authorities to use. This means they have to be well-defined, well-documented and the entire process needs clearly defined quality goals. The distribution of basic data also needs to be efficient and reliable.
The Basic Data Programme Investments of approximately DKK 930 million up to 2016 Initiatives for real property, address, geographic, personal and business data Open access to public-sector basic data for everyone, including enterprises and individuals
Free release of data 1/1-2013 free release of: Map data Cadastral maps Business and company data Ensures re-use across the public sector Avoids double registration and redundant maintenance of shadow registers Allows the public and private sector alike to use the basic data for non-commercial and commercial purposes (within current legislation)
Licenses and terms of use Free release of data simplified legislation The Basic Data Programme also includes projects dealing with the development of common data licenses across authorities and the private sector: Right of use The Licensor grants you a worldwide, free, non-exclusive and otherwise unrestricted licence to use the Data, which you are free to e.g. copy, distribute and publish; adapt and combine with other material; exploit commercially and non-commercially. Conditions The Data may not be used in a way which suggests that the Licensor endorses, supports, recommends or markets the user of the Data, or the services or products of the user of the Data. You must ensure the use of the Data is in accordance with Danish law...
Common data model Coherent and consistent data modelling of the basic data One common way of describing data (meta-data) Ensures that data can be compared and used across registers and authorities
Basic data distributor One channel for basic data: all basic data will be distributed via the data distributor to both the public and the private sector The basic data administrator still has the responsibility and ownership of the data Updating basic data will still be carried out via the basic-data administrator's existing interfaces The basic data distributor will provide support for standardised technical interfaces and only a single basic-data access agreement needs to be entered into The data distributor will store and distribute data pursuant to Danish and European legislation
National data infrastructure vs.
Inter-agency co-operation >> Organization
Involved public authorities Basic Data Committee, consisting of: Ministry of Finance (chair) Ministry of Business and Growth Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs Ministry of the Environment Ministry of Taxation Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior Ministry of Justice Danish Municipalities Danish Regions Steering groups for the sub-agreements in the responsible authorities
Organization Danish Government Finance committee Local Government Denmark Executive Committee Regional Government Denmark Executive Committee Secretariat, Agency of Digitisation Basic data committee Steering groups (SG) for the individual implementation projects SG 1: Real property, Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs SG 2: Adresses, Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs SG 3 and 4: Geographic data, Danish Geodata Agency SG 5: Personal data, Danish Agency for Digitisation SG 6: Business data, Danish Business Authority SG 7: Data distributor etc., Danish Agency for Digitisation Analyses of new areas of basic-data relevance Personal data registration (sub agreement 5) Digital road infrastructure Accounting data eincome
The seven sub-agreements 1. Efficient real property management and re-use of real property data (Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs) 2. Efficient re-use of basic data on addresses, administrative units and place names (Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs) 3. Common basic data for water management and climate change adaptation (Danish Geodata Agency) 4. Open and efficient access to geographic data (Danish Geodata Agency) 5. Efficient basic registration of people and fewer shadow registers (Danish Agency for Digitisation) 6. Efficient re-use and sharing of basic data on businesses (Danish Business Authority) 7. Common basic data distribution solution (Danish Agency for Digitisation)
Basic data committee SG 1 SG 2 SG 3 SG 4 SG 6 SG 7 Register of Property Owners Building and Dwelling Register Watercourses, FOT register Release of geodata Release of business and company data Data Distributor Cadastre Building and Dwelling Register Local government work procedures Place names Revision of FOT cooperation Improvement of the Central Business Register Administrative units
The free release of public data >> New ways of financing open data
Business case for the Basic Data Programme Once the initiatives have been completely phased in, in 2020, there are expected savings for the public sector of about DKK 250 million per year as a result of lower administration costs Net returns for the public sector on the Danish Basic Data Programme Net effect, DKK mill. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Ministries -108-81 -50-26 3 9 29 42 Municipalities -24 24 79 143 165 169 174 175 Regions 1 11 23 33 43 43 43 43 Total effect for the public sector -131-45 52 149 211 221 246 260
Great economic benefits from the free release of data Case: Building and Dwelling Register Free release of address data in 2002 From 2005-2009 the socio-economic benefits to society are estimated to up to DKK mill. 471 The public sector has saved DKK mill. 38 on the free release, from not having to negotiate contracts etc. The socio-economic value of the free release is estimated to increase by 15 pct. per year. New digital services have been developed, ex. www.boliga.dk
Private sector benefits Free release of data removes central barriers to innovation and growth in the private sector The business case for the Basic Data Programme estimated the benefits of the private sector of up to DKK mill. 500. Basic data is used in internal processes in companies and can be exploited to develop innovative new products and services
Opening up public data >> Challenges
Challenges and obstacles Co-ordinating and governing the initiatives across governmental agencies Bottom-up or top-down? Quality of data and the idea in public authorities, that data needs to be perfect to be opened up
A new role to the authorities The release of public sector data has given a new role to the involved registration authorities, and the shift of focus from recording data to distributing it has challenged some of the ways the organisations work Data is an asset, not an archive record! Modernization of registers and IT systems towards open data distribution
Other data-initiatives in Denmark Basic Data are only a fraction of the public sector data Other initiatives include: VIRK DATA Municipalities, ex. Open Data Aarhus, Open Data Copenhagen
Thank you for your attention Head of section Rikke Gram-Hansen DANISH BUSINESS AUTHORITY Dahlerups Pakhus Langelinie Allé 17 DK-2100 København Ø Telephone: +45 3529 1000 Direct: +45 3529 1959 E-mail: RikGra@erst.dk www.erst.dk MINISTRY OF BUSINESS AND GROWTH DENMARK
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