Friday lunchtime lecture: Making governments work better with open data

From real estate in Estonia to search and rescue in Ireland, find out how the OpenGovIntelligence project aims to use open data to improve the way government works. The OpenGovIntelligence project is a three year EU funded research project involving twelve partners from seven countries. It aims to demonstrate how better use of data and ‘co-creation’ of public services leads to benefits for citizens and businesses. The project involves 6 pilots, each with two partners: a technical partner tasked with developing software tools and preparing and publishing the appropriate open data, and a public sector partner with understanding of public service challenges, who will test out the new approaches in a practical setting. Speaker biography Sarah Roberts works on communications, training, strategy and events for Swirrl, the data publishers. She leads Swirrl’s dissemination of the OpenGovIntelligence project to help maximise its impact.