How the Next Generation Data.Gov Platform Accelerates Open Government Plans Hyon Kim and Charles Blanchet
Presenters Charles Blanchet, VP of Sales, Socrata – Been in the gov’t transparency world for 7 years – Over 800 projects – Worked with all levels of government all 50 states – Passion is figuring-out the win, win, win, win Save Staff time Cut Costs Improve Service Passive & Free Transparency
Agenda We read OG Plans with the goal of finding some common themes that were related to the Next Generation data.gov Platform... Driving Transparency, Participation & Collaboration Mobile Enablement Data Aggregation
Citizens Prefer to Explore Data On-Line vs. Downloading by a margin of 4-1 Survey of 1,000 diverse US adults View the Full Report:
data.gov Classic User Experience Online exploration not available Public value add is not captured No easy way to share to social grid Inconsistent User Experience
Transparency Next Generation data.gov platform data exploration Downloading not Required Filter Visualize Consume Other Views Search
Share to the social grid (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, ) - Citizens Promote Content - More Eyes on your Content - Healthy Debate is Fostered Participation
Sign-up and Sign-in Become and Official Member of the Community Contribute to the Content and Discussion Receive Feedback Use Existing Accounts
- Citizens can Save Filters and Visualizations - The public can now influence how data is viewed!! - Harness the public’s collective wisdom!! Participation & Collaboration
Get feedback you did not anticipate Make better decisions Comments are interactive Discussions can be moderated or not Collaboration
Mobile Enablement
Out of the BoxApplication DevelopmentOther Ideas
Next Generation data.gov Platform works with all Smart Phone Browsers... Out-of-the-box!! iPhone using Safari Browser Mobile Enablement
Mobile Application Development
Harness Civic Developers via a Developer’s Site SODA: Socrata Open Data API: It is possible to create your own Documentation Sample Code Register Applications Application Gallery Support Developer Community Videos Mobile Enablement
Thank You for Calling SAMHSA Mobile can mean Text and IVR... OTHER IDEAS
Data Aggregation identify data that exists within its program and support areas, aggregate it, store it in one centralized service, and then publish it on Data.gov is planning to post new summary aggregate data aggregate enforcement data
Data Aggregation Is this an easy problem to tackle? Data.gov struggles to get data from departments, do departments struggle to get data from sub-agencies? Why? What are you doing to address it? The Next Generation data.gov Platform can help...
Data Consolidation Next Generation data.gov Platform comes with a Data Federation API. Work with Socrata, 3 rd parties or in-house What is Data Federation? – Video: – CB’s Light Bulb Moment What are some Benefits? – Agency Branding – Share data on your sites – Publishing data to data.gov = auto pilot – Mission oriented benefits and service delivery
Data Consolidation Data Federation Benefits continued... – Puts control in the hands of people down the org hierarchy Less fear – Goal alignment. Helps the people you need help from Not just checking a box – Share all data or some datasets
Questions? Comments? Q & A
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