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Best Practice: Develop and Implement a Cross Agency Strategy

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This is one of a set of Best Practices for implementing the (Revised) PSI Directive developed by the .

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Outline

Developing and implementing a strategy on open data that coordinates the efforts of multiple agencies.

Challenge

Different agencies in the public sector develop and implement their own strategy. These different strategies are unconnected so it is hard to apply central planning and evaluation.

Solution

There needs to be a strategy that coordinates the efforts of multiple agencies.

Why is this a Best Practice?

This best practice allows different agencies to understand what is required, plan accordingly and measure progress. Having a strategic plan is essential for decision makers at the highest level, i.e. ministers, to support an approach to implementation. Both the G8 Open Data Charter, published in 2013, and the Shakespeare Review of Public Sector Information, emphasised the need for a clear, visible, auditable plan for publishing data as quickly as possible, defined both by bottom-up market demand and by top-down strategic thinking, overcoming institutional and technical obstacles with a twin-track process which combines speed to market with improvement of quality:

  • an ‘early even if imperfect’ track that is very broad and very aggressively driven; and,
  • a ‘National Core Reference Data’ high-quality track which begins immediately but narrowly;

and then moving things from Track 1 to Track 2 as quickly as we can do reliably and to a high standard. ‘Quickly’ should be set out by government through publicly committed target dates.

How do I implement this Best Practice?

  • Give responsibility to an individual civil servant or department for developing the plan.
  • Convene a meeting, or a series of meetings, between stakeholders - data producers, data users etc.
  • Develop the plan through an iterative process before seeking high level endorsement.

Where has this best practice been implemented?

Country Implementation Contact Point
Flanders, Belgium The Flemish Innovation Projects Noël van Herreweghe, Program Manager Open Data – Government of Flanders in Belgium

References

Local Guidance

This Best Practice is cited by, or is consistent with, the advice given within the following guides:

Contact Info

Noël van Herreweghe, Program Manager Open Data – Government of Flanders in Belgium

Issue Tracker

Any matters arising from this BP, including implementation experience, lessons learnt, places where it has been implemented or guides that cite this BP can be recorded and discussed on the project's GitHub repository

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