Innovating government [digital services]. Success, Failure and Lessons with opendata.swiss

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1. Success, Failure and Lessons with opendata.swiss Innovating government [digital services] Bern, 17.11.2016
2. opendata.swiss － Open Government Data portal of Swiss public administration － Metadata catalog listing +/- “open” datasets － Technologies WordPress (CMS) and CKAN (DMS) － Revolutionary User Experience and outstanding Design － v1.0, v1.1, v1.2 ... 2
3. Client & project challenge
4. Federal Archives • data at the center, easy to get to the data • data owners are important, in terms of image • community expectations are fulfilled • on time delivery, and stable External PM • data owner are enthusiastic, easy to publish data • decisions with Liip are easy 4 Andreas Amsler • open go-live, not silent • development agile François Terrier • all data immediately accessible • CH example for the world
5. Success & Failure
6. Federal Archives ➔ data at the center, easy to get to the data ✔ ➔ data owners are important, in terms of image ? ➔ community expectations are fulfilled ! ➔ on time delivery, and stable ✔ External PM ➔ data owner are enthuasiatic !, easy to publish data ✔ ➔ decisions with Liip are easy ✔ 6 Andreas Amsler ➔ open go-live, not silent ! ➔ development agile ! François Terrier ➔ all data immediately accessible ? ➔ CH example for the world ?
7. Lessons
8. Play [not] by the rules • be and stay bold on vision • be reliable on delivery • lead the client • keep the project goals in sight • hold the client accountable to them • do not give in, do not let frustration win • accept crisis, and enjoy the adventure “Make things open, it makes things better – it really does." James Stewart, Chief Architect, UK Government Digital Service 8
9. “Sometimes you cannot be that ambitious as you’d like to be, because you’ve not got time or capabilities or the permission – so make it suitable to the moment.” Paul Maltby, Director of Open Data and Government Innovation, UK Cabinet Office 9 Step by step we succeed
10. “Innovation is not about ‘new ideas’, but courage to drop the ballast of old certitudes.” Bertrand Piccard Andreas Amsler Product Owner, BizDev +41 43 501 40 02 andreas.amsler@liip.ch