SC6 Workshop 1: From your data to data stories - BigDataEurope, SC6 Workshop
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The Your Data Stories project, funded by the EU, aims to enhance transparency in governance by piloting ICT-based tools utilizing open data over a 36-month period starting February 1, 2015. It includes three key pilots focusing on public financial tracking in Greece, development aid in the Netherlands, and cross-European financial comparisons. The project addresses challenges in economic open data, such as heterogeneity and compatibility, while highlighting the need for improved tools and infrastructure.
SC6 Workshop 1: From your data to data stories - BigDataEurope, SC6 Workshop
- 1. From Data to Your Data Stories Anna Triantafillou, ATC Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ‘Demokritos’ Big Data Europe Workshop, Luxemburg 18/11/2015
- 2. YourDataStories at a Glance • An EU Funded Project – INSO-1-2014: ICT-Enabled open government • Starting Date: February 1st, 2015 • Duration: 36 months • Scope: Innovation Action – Pilots on transparency • Highlights – Actions should pilot tools to increase the transparency impact of ICT-based technology platforms of the public sector; – The transparency tools to be piloted should benefit from open data and help in monitoring, enhancing accountability & fighting corruption
- 3. Pilot 1: Follow public money all the way in Greece • Comprehensive analysis of available data – RDFise and interconnect data from various (governmental) sources • National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), Greek Transparency Portal (Diavgeia), etc. – Enhance data along various dimensions • Detailed geo-information, ground named- entities, etc. – Provide the Data Citizen, public servants, auditors with tools to query, discover and participate in the fiscal transparency process
- 4. Pilot 2: Tracking Development Aid in the Netherlands • Analysis of data across multiple countries – RDFise and interconnect data from various sources • Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS), International AID Transparency Initiative (IATI), MIT’s Atlas, etc. – Provide journalists with tools to discover ‘news’ stories • Answering “interesting questions” – How much did the Netherlands spend on foreign aid related to Zimbabwe in the time frame 2005-2014, what sectors was this money spent on and in relation to what?
- 5. Pilot 3: Cross-Europe Financial Comparability • Comparative analysis of data across EU – Exploit our unifying model, vocabulary, and tools to enable comparisons of economic data across EU • The results from the Greek ‘Follow Public Money all the way’ pilot will be compared with data from the Irish National and Local Government
- 6. Challenges • Economic open data are: – Heterogeneous – Incompatible vocabularies – Not related to policy goals • With great potential! – We need tools and infrastructure to alleviate these problems