Good Practices for Measuring the Impact of Open Data in Europe
Fecha del documento: 28-09-2023
The Open Data Maturity Study 2022 provides a snapshot of the level of development of policies promoting open data in countries, as well as an assessment of the expected impact of these policies. Among its findings, it highlights that measuring the impact of open data is a priority, but also a major challenge across Europe.
In this edition, there has been a 7% decrease in the average maturity level in the impact dimension for EU27 countries, which coincides with the restructuring of the impact dimension indicators. However, it is not so much a decrease in the level of maturity, but a more accurate picture of the difficulty in assessing the resulting impact of reuse of open data difficulty in assessing the impact resulting from the re-use of open data.
Therefore, in order to better understand how to make progress on the challenge of measuring the impact of open data, we have looked at existing best practices for measuring the impact of open data in Europe. To achieve this objective, we have worked with the data provided by the countries in their responses to the survey questionnaire and in particular with those of the eleven countries that have scored more than 500 points in the Impact dimension, regardless of their overall score and their position in the ranking: France, Ireland, Cyprus, Estonia and the Czech Republic scoring the maximum 600 points; and Poland, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Sweden scoring above 510 points.
In the report we provide a country profile for each of the ten countries, analysing in general terms the country's performance in all dimensions of the study and in detail the different components of the impact dimension, summarising the practices that have led to its high score based on the analysis of the responses to the questionnaire.
Through this tabbed structure the document allows for a direct comparison between country indicators and provides a detailed overview of best practices and challenges in the use of open data in terms of measuring impact through the following indicators:
- "Strategic awareness": It quantifies the awareness and preparedness of countries to understand the level of reuse and impact of open data within their territory.
- "Measuring reuse": It focuses on how countries measure open data re-use and what methods they use.
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"Impact created": It collects data on the impact created within four impact areas: government impact (formerly policy impact), social impact, environmental impact and economic impact.
Finally, the report provides a comparative analysis of these countries and draws out a series of recommendations and good practices that aim to provide ideas on how to improve the impact of open data on each of the three indicators measured in the study.
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Content prepared by Jose Luis Marín, Senior Consultant in Data, Strategy, Innovation & Digitalization.
The contents and views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the author.
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