Establishment of a "data school" (DEDET0003)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Detmold, Germany, 2022 – 2025
Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Detmold, Germany, 2022 – 2025
Commitment Start: Mar 2024
Commitment End: Mar 2025
Institutions involved:
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Access to information
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a new regulation, policy, practice or requirement.
The commitment activities is a positive change to a process, practice or policy but will not generate a binding or institutionalized change across government or specific institution(s).
Description
Commitment ID
DEDET0003
Commitment Title
Establishment of a "data school" as an educational offer on open data and data use with the help of regional educational partners
Problem
The provision of open data alone is no guarantee for strengthening the democratic opinion-forming process. Open data in its pure form is difficult to re-use and process by non-experts. Citizens must learn new digital cultural techniques in order to be able to use the potential of open data.
Status quo
Only a small part of Detmold's population has sufficient data literacy to be able to use open data comprehensively. Individual educational offers are already available, but these must be expanded in a structured way and enable low-threshold access.
Action
With the establishment of the "data school", all citizens should be able to educate themselves simply and easily around topics such as data visualisation, data analysis and data use. Municipal open data will serve as a basis for trying out and implementing the first projects of one's own.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
Data literacy in Detmold's urban society will increase significantly, discussions can be conducted in an evidence-based manner and arguments can be understood transparently.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
The commitment strengthens the democratic participation of urban society by empowering citizens through learning new cultural techniques for evidence-based discourse.
Primary Policy Area
Open Data, Right to Information
Primary Sector
Education
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Access to information | Citizens can take full advantage of the newly created access to information and use it for their own projects and political discourse. |