The opening of data related to the coronavirus epidemic by the Ministry of Health and Santé Publique France, the volume of consultations of these data on the data.gouv.fr platform (1.8 million in May, three times more than in May 2019), the number and diversity of reuses of these data testify to the usefulness of open data in times of crisis.
Four years after the law for a digital Republic (and two years after its application deadline) the assessment of the 2020 edition of the observatory Open data of territories, published in October, brings its share of good news: 60% of local authorities of more than 100,000 inhabitants have opened their data, 100% of regions and 60% of departments.
The government commissioned MP Eric Bothorel to reflect on public policy on data. A progress report, published at the beginning of October 2020, proposes a dozen tracks now submitted for public consultation.
How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French case
The need for accurate and comprehensive data has been critical from the beginning of the epidemic, around issues of crisis management, transparency and public information. In a post published in June, Etalab, the department of the interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) in charge of implementing the state's data strategy, recounts how administrations collaborated to open data related to the COVID-19 epidemic in France."For the administrations on the front lines, such as the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, Santé publique France (SPF) and the Regional Health Agencies (ARS), the challenge was to manage to collect and consolidate large volumes of data from different sources. "Although national information systems already existed, it was necessary to adapt them to specifically monitor patients with Covid-19. In addition, the various health actors (hospital services, emergency call services, SOS doctors' teams, etc.) rely daily on information systems that are specific to their profession. These systems offer different data entry modes and often different data structures.The exercise was all the more difficult as these data had to be collected and updated on a national scale within a particularly short timeframe.Next: How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French caseRéférence :
A mission to reflect on the "public policy of data
The deputy Eric Bothorel has been asked by the government to reflect on the public policy of data. This mission comes four years after the law for a digital Republic, which provided that administrations publish their data "by default". The mission concerns public sector data but also "data of general interest", produced by the private sector.In a progress report, the "public data policy" mission provides an initial status report:
- What is public data policy?
- What does the law say in France?
- How do other countries do it?
- Why is this blocking today?
And a public consultation
A consultation is launched to collect "opinions on the current obstacles to the opening of data, source codes, and data of general interest and the solutions to be implemented to unleash the potential of data and codes for the French society and economy.Références :
The data in the time of the Corona
Laurence Comparat, President of OpenDataFrance, draws the first lessons of the role that data has played and is playing in the management of the health crisis and beyond, for the resilience of territories.All branches of the public service, whether state, local or hospital, had to collect, analyze and anticipate the development of the pandemic based on reliable data. (...)
The data allowed the development of services to facilitate the management of the crisis.
- Many infographics have been produced by hundreds of institutions, from the WHO to the French government, including universities, analysts, associations, the media (Le Monde, Libération) and developing countries.
- These are not only observatories on the development of the pandemic, but also predictive tools on its evolution allowing to take the necessary measures to protect the health system.
- These tools do not only concern the containment phase but also the management of the economic recovery, for example the observatory of the Solidarity Fund aids for an analysis of the aids allocated by field of activity and by territory.
- Studies on the sociological impact are also based on the available data: exodus of city dwellers, social proximity, ...
- Platforms have specialized in making data available, with structuring recommendations: raw data, qualified, normalized, APIfied (programming interface). (...)
We are also seeing uses in two directions: on the one hand, a more in-depth analysis of data by theme (health or the economy, for example) and, on the other hand, cross-referencing between different fields: health and tourism, for example. In both cases, data interoperability is very important: how can we link one database with another? How can we ensure that we are talking about the same entity, the same unit, the same geographical perimeter?
Référence :
764 territorial actors involved in open data: a scattered effort with 180 publication sites
Every year, OpenDataFrance publishes an analysis of thestate of open data in the territories. The study is based on figures and indicators, collected and elaborated in real time, and published on the observatory's website.To date (October 2020), 589 local authorities publish data in opendata.
If we add 175 public or private structures, partners of the communities and producing data within the framework of a public service mission, we arrive at a total of 764 territorial actors.
The 2020 report observes, as in previous years, "a very significant gap between large and small communities.
- "The regions are all open this year 2020.
- 100% of the regional councils in metropolitan France and many actors in the regions and overseas territories offer an open data portal, even if they do not all have the same quantity of data sets
- The departments continue to grow, with nearly 60% of them open.
- More than 50% of local authorities with more than 100,000 inhabitants are open (this includes the metropolises, which are 82% open, and the largest inter-municipalities).
- Below this threshold, less than 8% of local authorities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants manage to publish data. Unsurprisingly, the smaller the size, the less likely the community is to engage in open data.
With a total of 180 territorial publication platforms, the report regrets "the lack of mutualization of platforms. The majority (64%) of players publish their data on their own portal.
"15,572 datasets are published by 764 territorial actors on 180 open data portals. This dispersion of publication sites has contributed to a great heterogeneity in the formats, and therefore in the interoperability and reuse of data. However, the tools proposed by OpenDataFrance allow to prioritize and standardize the data to be published.Référence :
Sources
- 1. How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French case
- 2. Progress report of the public data policy mission
- 3. Public data policy: public consultation
- 4. Laurence Comparat, President of OpenDataFrance: Data in the time of the Corona
- 5. Observatory open data of territories, October edition. 2020
Opening up public data against the backdrop of the health crisis: a mission looks at public data policy
The opening of data related to the coronavirus epidemic by the Ministry of Health and Santé Publique France, the volume of consultations of these data on the data.gouv.fr platform (1.8 million in May, three times more than in May 2019), the number and diversity of reuses of these data testify to the usefulness of open data in times of crisis.
Four years after the law for a digital Republic (and two years after its application deadline) the assessment of the 2020 edition of the observatory Open data of territories, published in October, brings its share of good news: 60% of local authorities of more than 100,000 inhabitants have opened their data, 100% of regions and 60% of departments.
The government commissioned MP Eric Bothorel to reflect on public policy on data. A progress report, published at the beginning of October 2020, proposes a dozen tracks now submitted for public consultation.
How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French case
The need for accurate and comprehensive data has been critical from the beginning of the epidemic, around issues of crisis management, transparency and public information. In a post published in June, Etalab, the department of the interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) in charge of implementing the state's data strategy, recounts how administrations collaborated to open data related to the COVID-19 epidemic in France."For the administrations on the front lines, such as the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, Santé publique France (SPF) and the Regional Health Agencies (ARS), the challenge was to manage to collect and consolidate large volumes of data from different sources. "Although national information systems already existed, it was necessary to adapt them to specifically monitor patients with Covid-19. In addition, the various health actors (hospital services, emergency call services, SOS doctors' teams, etc.) rely daily on information systems that are specific to their profession. These systems offer different data entry modes and often different data structures.The exercise was all the more difficult as these data had to be collected and updated on a national scale within a particularly short timeframe.Next: How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French caseRéférence :
A mission to reflect on the "public policy of data
The deputy Eric Bothorel has been asked by the government to reflect on the public policy of data. This mission comes four years after the law for a digital Republic, which provided that administrations publish their data "by default". The mission concerns public sector data but also "data of general interest", produced by the private sector.In a progress report, the "public data policy" mission provides an initial status report:
- What is public data policy?
- What does the law say in France?
- How do other countries do it?
- Why is this blocking today?
And a public consultation
A consultation is launched to collect "opinions on the current obstacles to the opening of data, source codes, and data of general interest and the solutions to be implemented to unleash the potential of data and codes for the French society and economy.Références :
The data in the time of the Corona
Laurence Comparat, President of OpenDataFrance, draws the first lessons of the role that data has played and is playing in the management of the health crisis and beyond, for the resilience of territories.All branches of the public service, whether state, local or hospital, had to collect, analyze and anticipate the development of the pandemic based on reliable data. (...)
The data allowed the development of services to facilitate the management of the crisis.
- Many infographics have been produced by hundreds of institutions, from the WHO to the French government, including universities, analysts, associations, the media (Le Monde, Libération) and developing countries.
- These are not only observatories on the development of the pandemic, but also predictive tools on its evolution allowing to take the necessary measures to protect the health system.
- These tools do not only concern the containment phase but also the management of the economic recovery, for example the observatory of the Solidarity Fund aids for an analysis of the aids allocated by field of activity and by territory.
- Studies on the sociological impact are also based on the available data: exodus of city dwellers, social proximity, ...
- Platforms have specialized in making data available, with structuring recommendations: raw data, qualified, normalized, APIfied (programming interface). (...)
We are also seeing uses in two directions: on the one hand, a more in-depth analysis of data by theme (health or the economy, for example) and, on the other hand, cross-referencing between different fields: health and tourism, for example. In both cases, data interoperability is very important: how can we link one database with another? How can we ensure that we are talking about the same entity, the same unit, the same geographical perimeter?
Référence :
764 territorial actors involved in open data: a scattered effort with 180 publication sites
Every year, OpenDataFrance publishes an analysis of thestate of open data in the territories. The study is based on figures and indicators, collected and elaborated in real time, and published on the observatory's website.To date (October 2020), 589 local authorities publish data in opendata.
If we add 175 public or private structures, partners of the communities and producing data within the framework of a public service mission, we arrive at a total of 764 territorial actors.
The 2020 report observes, as in previous years, "a very significant gap between large and small communities.
- "The regions are all open this year 2020.
- 100% of the regional councils in metropolitan France and many actors in the regions and overseas territories offer an open data portal, even if they do not all have the same quantity of data sets
- The departments continue to grow, with nearly 60% of them open.
- More than 50% of local authorities with more than 100,000 inhabitants are open (this includes the metropolises, which are 82% open, and the largest inter-municipalities).
- Below this threshold, less than 8% of local authorities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants manage to publish data. Unsurprisingly, the smaller the size, the less likely the community is to engage in open data.
With a total of 180 territorial publication platforms, the report regrets "the lack of mutualization of platforms. The majority (64%) of players publish their data on their own portal.
"15,572 datasets are published by 764 territorial actors on 180 open data portals. This dispersion of publication sites has contributed to a great heterogeneity in the formats, and therefore in the interoperability and reuse of data. However, the tools proposed by OpenDataFrance allow to prioritize and standardize the data to be published.Référence :
Sources
- 1. How administrations collaborated to open up Coronavirus data: the French case
- 2. Progress report of the public data policy mission
- 3. Public data policy: public consultation
- 4. Laurence Comparat, President of OpenDataFrance: Data in the time of the Corona
- 5. Observatory open data of territories, October edition. 2020
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