Co-creating an Open Data Hub (GBGLG0003)

Commitment ID

GBGLG0003

Commitment Title

Co-creating an Open Data Hub

Problem

Businesses, academics, communities and third sector organisations identified the need for greater access to data to support innovation and information to inform debate and local decision-making. By increasing the availability of open data we plan to increase transparency, empower communities, and enable service redesign and innovation.

Status quo

Glasgow City Council first started publishing open data in 2013 as part of Glasgow’s Future Cities Demonstrator (Glasgow was the first UK’s smart city demonstrator). We are in the process of relaunching the Open Data Portal, following a technical upgrade, that will make it easier to publish timely and up-to-date open data, and provide a suite of data visualisation tools that allows data to be presented in more meaningful ways than just raw tables (e.g. interactive maps, 3D models, dashboards, and data stories). As an example, the technology has recently been used to provide Councillors with an interactive “ward profile” that can provide insight into Electoral Wards including demographics, community assets, and service delivery trends.

Glasgow City Council has recently established an Open Data Working Group with city partners from across the public, academic and third sectors to adopt a city-wide approach to developing and implementing open data in the city.

Action

This commitment will deliver a co-created Open Data Hub where citizens can access, and interact with, a broad range of datasets from Glasgow City Council and partner organisations. This open data platform will provide access to not just raw datasets for communities but will provide interactive maps, dashboards, and data stories that will help communities to understand what the data means. The Hub will also provide data engagement and involvement opportunities through the creation of themed initiatives. It will be linked to our Open Digital Engagement Platform.

Through this Open Government Commitment, we will engage with a broad range of communities to set priorities for the scaling up the publication of open data, and to co-develop data visualisations (such as interactive maps and dashboards) that can be used to inform public debate and decision-making. The expected result of this action would be that communities would have access to a broad range of datasets, informative visuals and interactive dashboards, and data stories (via story maps) that are informative and influence debate and decision-making. Within this work, we will test out the creation of ‘initiatives’ themed around particular data sets, where communities of interest come together to explore the impact.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

The Open Data Hub commitment will co-create and deliver a city-wide repository of open data that contains a broad range of relevant datasets, visualisations, data stories and an engagement hub. It will provide an easily accessible set of neighbourhood and citywide dashboards that have been influenced by the needs of communities enabling informed community debate and decision-making. Within this commitment we will develop a meaningful set of targets that measure the impact that open data is having on transparency, Freedom of Information, community empowerment, service design, and innovation.

Primary Policy Area

Digital Governance, Open Data

Primary Sector

Cross-sectoral

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?