Learn about the insights from the webinar ´Stories from the Use Case
Observatory – Volume I’
The USE CASE OBSERVATORY
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/stories-use-case-observatory] is a
three-year-long research project by data.europa.eu. It aims at
contributing to the portal’s broader goal to measure the economic,
governmental, social and environmental impact of open data. To do so,
the Use Case Observatory monitors 30 re-use cases of open data from
2022 to 2025, focusing on the services they offer, the data they use,
and the impact they create over time.

On the occasion of the launch of the first of the three reports
foreseen within this research project, the webinar ´STORIES FROM THE
USE CASE OBSERVATORY – VOLUME I’
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/stories-use-case-observatory] was
organised on 7 October 2022.

During the first part of the webinar, the facilitator provided an
overview of the research project, its methodology, and outlined some
insights of the 2022 publication. The participating re-use cases
highlighted the many ways in which open data has an impact. For
example, open data business models can support citizens in finding
jobs close to them, as well as improving transparency of governments
by showing how members of parliament operate. Nevertheless, the
results of the first report underline how estimating the effects of
open data is still a complex challenge. Why?

 	* For many re-use cases it remains unclear how to precisely measure
their services’ impact. Therefore, few data are available, besides
web statistics;
 	* Not all information to measure impact can be shared easily by the
re-use cases (e.g., financial information);
 	* Development ambitions and impact growth still often depend on
obtaining adequate funding to scale the re-use cases.

In the second part of the webinar, four re-use cases participating in
the Use Case Observatory were given the floor to present their
open-data-driven solutions. 

 	* GUGLIELMO CELATA, Founder, Vice President and Technological
Officer of Openpolis [https://www.openpolis.it/], presented two use
cases of how they increase people’s awareness and participation in
democratic processes and decision-making. Through catchy
visualisations, Open PNNR [https://openpnrr.it/] leverages data of the
Italian Ministry of the Economy to show the latest developments in the
implementation of the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan. Centri
d´Italia [https://centriditalia.it/home] maps out data from the
Italian Ministry of the Interior about reception centres for refugees
and asylum seekers in Italy.
 	* CLARA BRACKLO, CEO of Integreat [https://integreat-app.de/en/],
explained how their solution helps reducing information poverty and
allows 90 municipalities in Germany to facilitate the integration of
migrants and refugees. By providing key information in a single open
pool, Integreat is ´a good example of how with open source, on the
one hand, and open data, on the other, sustainability and transparency
can be ensured` beyond single municipal realisations. 
 	* JELLE KAMSMA, Head of Product at ANP, held a presentation on
LocalFocus [https://www.localfocus.nl/], ´a data-driven news service
aimed towards smaller regional newsrooms`. LocalFocus collects and
analyses datasets on a variety of topics, providing both regional and
national newspapers in the Netherlands with the ability to transform
raw data into visual stories, without the need for technical skills.
 	* STÉPHANE GIGANDET, Founder of OpenFoodFacts
[https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/], focused on how they created
their ´digital public good`, a big open database on food and food
products through which further tools were built to transform raw data
into actionable knowledge for people. In fact, through the
OpenFoodFacts app and further services enabled through it, consumers
in France were able to take informed decisions about their nutrition,
food manufacturers to make better products, and scientists to further
speed up their research. 

The webinar concluded with a Q&A session, during which speakers
answered questions in relation to the open and non-open data they use,
how they approach data in different languages, and what they think
should be done to retrieve relevant open data for re-use more easily.

Curious to learn more about? Then watch the recording
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FT0OxfgF0M] of the webinar and
consult the speakers´ slides on the data.europa academy page
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/stories-use-case-observatory]
dedicated to the Use Case Observatory´s webinars.

Here you will also find a draft of the first report
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/report/DRAFT_Use_Case_Observatory_Report_1.pdf],
which will be officially published in mid-October. 

Stay tuned!

 

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Publication Date/Time
2022-10-14T07:00:00+00:00
Watch the recording of the session dedicated to the first report of
the Use Case Observatory research project.