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Best practices/Encourage active participation in Open Data Lifecycle
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice
Source:
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Establish Open Government Portal for Open Data sharing and re-use
- Best Practices/Boosting citizens’ awareness through the reuse of existing resources
- Best_Practices/Getting_Journalists_Involved_In_the_Process_Of_Opening_Up_Data
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
- Best Practices/Encouragement via bonuses
Contents
Outline of the best practice
The Open Data Lifecycle comprises mainly three actors: data providers, policy decision-makers and the public (citizens and private sector). Data providers should ensure participation and the possibility for feedback from end-users at any time during the publishing process in order to provide better government services.
Management summary
Challenge
- provide better government services
- publish data of high priority
- publish data of high quality
Solution
There are different ways how to support and encourage active participation, please see source document.
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
Engagement, communication and collaboration between the users and publishers in the early stages of the lifecycle helps the publishers to understand the demand for data and thus it might help to focus the publication of open data on the datasets with the high value for the end users. Later the feedback obtained on the published datasets, like the identified errors in data, might be utilized for the data quality improvements. At the end of the lifecycle communication with the users should ensure that the users are informed about the termination of datasets and, if applicable, about the new datasets that replace the terminated ones.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
The introduction of new directives may happen much faster, the quality of data will improve, opportunities for new jobs will be created.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
- embrace “citizen-centric” government paradigm; foster citizens’ awareness and participation; organize public consultations
- re-use existing resources in modernized services, see Best Practices/Boosting citizens’ awareness through the reuse of existing resources
- ensure collaboration infrastructure, see also Best Practices/Establish Open Government Portal for Open Data sharing and re-use, including services for collecting opinions
- getting journalists involved in the process Best_Practices/Getting_Journalists_Involved_In_the_Process_Of_Opening_Up_Data
- for other ways for encouraging participation, see also Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
Applicability by other Member States
EC-funded projects piloted “citizen-centric” solutions into several EU-countries (such as SEED project) and feedback collected from end-users and content providers is a proof to considering this as a Best Practice.
Contact info
- For editorial issues: valentina.janev@institutepupin.com