Workshop about Open (Statistics) Data Within Government for Innovation and Efficiency

[Benedikt Kämpgen]

Hello publishers and consumers of statistical data over the Web,

Open Government Data is a data source with immense amounts of statistics
(e.g., World Bank [1], Eurostat [2]).

It would be great if you consider talking about your use cases in our
workshop on Open Data Within Government for Innovation and Efficiency [3].

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Best,

Benedikt

[1] <http://worldbank.270a.info/>
[2] <http://eurostat.linked-statistics.org/>,
<http://estatwrap.ontologycentral.com/>
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Samos Summit Workshop: Uses of Open Data Within Government for
Innovation and Efficiency - Forward-Looking, Visionary Approaches for
Public Sector Information Sharing and Utilisation

==Call For Papers==

Open data provides an unprecedented opportunity for innovation around
transparent, evidence-based decision making, public engagement and
trust. Just as importantly, it also facilitates more efficient
government with each department or agency better able to reuse data
collected and managed by their colleagues (perhaps very distant
colleagues). Public sector information (PSI) may be offered as "open
data" in many forms and through different media: from simple datasets
describing traffic or unemployment, to Web services linking and mashing
information from different sources, to interactive visualisation of
complex phenomena, to citizen-based data gathering and transmission.
Through these different channels, new information is made available
across the public and private sectors, to scientists, citizens and
enterprises, all of whom are then able to benefit from each other's
activities in a growing network effect.

That's the promise. So what's the reality? With many initiatives already
in place, what innovations have we seen both in terms of curation and
publishing, and in terms of data reusage? What are the effiency gains?
How much of the promise of open data is being fulfilled? Are
expectations being met? If so, how? If not, is it the expectations or
the implementation that is wrong?

==Important Dates==

* 13 April 2014 - Submission deadline
* 1 May 2014 - Notification of acceptance
* 30 June and 1 July 2014 - Workshop

==Expected Outcomes==

The workshop report will show examples where innovation in the curation,
publication and reuse of public sector information has and has not met
the promise of open data, particularly in terms of improvements in
operational efficiency. Where and how has this been achieved? Where
initiatives that have fallen short of their promise, what might be the
reasons for that? The expected outcome of the workshop will be helpful
to EU Member States working to implement the revised PSI Directive.

As with all Share-PSI 2.0 workshops (a total of five are planned), this
workshop will provide input to the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices
Working Group, helping to maximise the impact of open data efforts
around the world.

==Participation==

The Share-PSI 2.0 partners invite short position papers describing
initiatives undertaken to make public sector information available and
the impact that these efforts have had. These should not be academic
papers but descriptions of the discussion or presentation you would like
to offer. Each organisation or individual wishing to participate must
submit a position paper explaining their interest in the workshop by the
deadline. The intention is to make sure that participants have an active
interest in the area, and that the workshop will benefit from their
presence. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- uses of open data within government for innovation and efficiency
proving the value of open data within the public sector;
- improvement in public service delivery;
- examples of open data utilisation for policy making purposes;
- visionary ideas on open data utilisation within society and policy
modelling;
- new approaches for public sector information processing and visualisation;
- open data and citizen participation in information gathering /
crowdsourcing;
- the open data feedback loop - communication between organizations that
publish data and users of the data;
- collaboration between different communities.

Submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee within 2 weeks
of the submission deadline.

Participation is free, however, there will be a charge to cover catering
costs. There is no funding to support participants' travel and
accommodation expenses.

==Submission Guidelines==

Papers should be a maximum of 5 pages long and should be submitted in a
non-proprietary format (HTML, PDF, ePub etc.) via e-mail to
group-share-psi_at_w3.org. Please include an abstract of the paper in
your e-mail. Note that the archive for this e-mail address is visible to
Share-PSI partners and W3C Team only.

Submissions by more than one author are welcome; however only the
coordinating author (as indicated in the submission) of the selected
paper will be invited to take part in the Share-PSI workshop. Additional
authors will be able to attend the workshop only if space allows. All
selected contributions and associated slides will be published in the
Share-PSI 2.0 Web site after the announcement of results.

==Venue==

This 1st Share-PSI 2.0 workshop will be hosted by the University of the
Aegean on the island of Samos, Greece, and in conjunction with the 5th
Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance, 30 June to 1 July, 2014.

More information on the Samos Workshop on Open Data is provided at
http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/samos/

More information about Samos Summit is provided at
http://www.samos-summit.org/

==Programme Committee==

Harris Alexopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Martin Alvarez, CTIC, Spain
Phil Archer, W3C
Peter Bíro, Ministry of Finance, Slovakia
Jean-Marie Bourgogne, Open Data France
Heather Broomfield, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi),
Norway
Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Makx Dekkers, AMI Consult
Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Valentina Janev, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia
Benedikt Kämpgen, KIT
Pekka Koponen, Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland
Stijn Goedertier, PwC, Belgium
Pedro González Yanes
Tom Heath, Open Data Institute (ODI), London, UK
Dolores Hernandez, MINHAP, Spain
Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems, Austria
Jan Kučera, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Deirdre Lee, Insight-NUI Galway, Ireland
Nikolaos Loutas, PwC, Belgium
Ville Meloni, Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland
András Micsik, SZTAKI, Hungary
Philippe Mussi, Member of PACA Regional Parliament, Open Data France
Thodoris Papadopoulos, Ministry of Administrative Reform and
e-Government, Greece
Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara
Mateja Presern, Ministry of the Interior, Slovenia
José Luis Roda García, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Nancy Routzouni, Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Government, Greece
Heike Schuster-James, Birmingham City Council, UK
Steinar Skagemo, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), Norway
Amanda Smith, Open Data Institute (ODI), London, UK
Noël Van Herreweghe, eGov, Flemish government in Belgium
Sanja Vraneą, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia
Neven Vrček, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and
Informatics, Croatia
Simon Whitehouse, Birmingham City Council, UK


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