okfn/opendatasurvey

Danny to discuss with OD Charter and UK government about GODI results

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Danny had a call with Nick Halliday about the UK government's experiences to when interacting with GODI. What works well on government side. What can we improve?

TL:DR of our call

  • Our website is not useful in spotting what is exactly wrong with the data

  • More targeted and specific feedback is needed to help government improve open data. Currently we are quite opaque about the data we assess (e.g. how does a good open budget dataset look like??)

  • High first-copy costs: Government participates in our survey too. Sometimes a government party submits to us. Problem: every year this process has to be done again. Given the costs and the little perceived benefit of the assessment (no targeted feedback), government might be more selective what indexes it wants to participate in or pay attention to.

The entire notes are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LoHJQvTNASHHxZOPB7lnfKrKyIvO6Uny_4ImxSspzrM/edit#