OPEN DATA
The Open Data Institute defines open data as ‘data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share’ – we’ve listed some of the top sources of open data for UK charities below. These datasets can be blended together with a charity’s own data as fuel for AI innovation.
Source:
https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/07/11/the-top-open-data-sets-available-to-charities-now/
UK GOVERNMENT
In June 2012, every Whitehall department produced an open data strategy, but not all of them have gone on to provide the same quantity of of data in a clean and accessible format.
Limitations include data not being published or recorded. When it is released, it sometimes features redactions and lacks effective categorisation, and flagship datasets such as transactional level spending for government departments are often out of date.
Source
https://www.computerworlduk.com/data/how-uk-government-uses-open-data-3683332/
The UK government has promised to provide more data in future to both the public and private sectors. In December 2017, it published new guidelines on what data should be released and how to ensure that it would be easy to find and available in the most usable format.
Emma Prest of DataKind UK – a UK charity that helps charities, non-profits and other social groups improve their impact through data science.
JERSEY OPPORTUNITIES
Surely Jersey is well placed to use eGovernment and Open Data to help local voluntary sector of 535 businesses and 11,000 people to provide better targeted resources and funding more efficiently for the benefit of the community and saving for the public purse.
Open datasets worth exploring See..
https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/07/11/the-top-open-data-sets-available-to-charities-now/
The Association of Jersey Charities will be revising its activities and its website. Would this be a good time to embrace Open Data to see the flow of Lottery Funding using Open Data?
Imagine if we can see how money is being spent, and measure the benefits and social impact. Using Open Data we can do this, as well as open the possibilities of new products and services, reports and analysis for example by targeting Digital Jersey coding programmes to combine student learning with social benefits through innovative products and services.
Feedback and comments always welcome
TimHJRogers
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SOJ has been investing in open data recently, with a trainer from Open Knowledge flown in from Estonia to train staff on data wrangling techniques so that we can improve the usability of the datasets that we publish. We have also upgraded https://opendata.gov.je to the latest version of CKAN this week. We are gearing up to publish more Jersey government open data sets on the site. What should we be publishing next?
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