I’ve been invited to address the CIPR Local Services Annual Conference during the social media masterclass. Here is the presentation I delivered. As always with my presentations, the visual candy is only an accompaniment, the main meat of the message is spoken. If they record the session I will add a link to it here later.
Tag: open data
Open Data in Local Government
A few weeks ago I saw Chris Taggart of Openly Local talking about open data at OpenTech2010. In recent days I’ve found myself with the opportunity to inform the thinking, of senior managers in a Local Authority context, about open data. I am particularly taken by the way that Chris approaches the issue of risk aversion by managing to to frame the public sector taboo of failure as an opportunity to progress through failing forward.
I will certainly be using this presentation, with a view to that opening the door for us to get Chris himself, to articulate the opportunities that open data present to a reform minded public body.
Open Data & The Rewards of Failure
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Related articles:
- William Perrin says goodbye to the UK’s open data chief – and hello to the new one (guardian.co.uk)
- How the Charities Commission is being dragged into the 21st century (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
- When Open Public Data Isn’t…? (ouseful.info)
- Reports look at cultural and economic implications of open data (computing.co.uk)
- Local government data: how to make it really open. Five principles for transparency (guardian.co.uk)
- What is Open Gov Data? The Sunlight Foundation: Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information (zzzoot.blogspot.com)