These are the notes of the Steering Group meeting held on Wednesday 27th March at Coventry City Council.
| WEST MIDLANDS OPEN DATA FORUM STEERING GROUP
WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH 2019, COVENTRY |
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| 1. INTROS, APOLS, NOTES AND MATTERS ARISING FROM MEETING 23/01/2019 | |||||
| Attendance | Pauline Roche, Ted Ryan, Glynn Simpson, Tim Healey, Daksha Piparia, Si Chun Lam, Ravi Kumar | ACTION | |||
| Apologies | Heike Schuster-James, Teresa Jolley, Nic Carey, Peter Bishop, Hugo Russell, Charlotte Johns, Chris Price | ||||
| Matters Arising | No matters arising not on agenda. PR thanked SCL for hosting this meeting in Coventry. | ||||
| 2. UPDATES | |||||
| WM Office of Data Analytics | Rebecca Riley now in charge of WM Office of Data Analytics at the West Midlands Combined Authority. She has issued a tender for consultancy support in Information sharing. Deft 153 leading a collaborative bid | ||||
| Open Data Day event, 1/3/19 – “Driving Miss Data” | Successful event from a presentation and sharing perspective – WMODF Twitter Moment | ||||
| · Ted Ryan presented another ‘annual rant’ concerning his view on ‘The Data we don’t know we don’t know’
· Rebecca Riley outlined her ideas on a data eco system and where the WM Office of Data Analytics fits into that · Mike Rose presented about data silos and the need for porous silos · Tom Forth presented on transport data, TFWM passenger data |
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| Proposed challenges were not followed though as expected but several discussions were initiated following the morning presentations. These discussions were to be followed up by the relevant individuals. | |||||
| Update on members use of Open Data +wishlists | Used
· GS: TfWM – general transit feed services, Real time data being fed into Google. New contracts to see if there is a possibility of developing an open source journey planner based on Open Street Map · TH: Coventry – developing access map for pharmacists in Coventry based on the City’s Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment · DP: Fuel Poverty hotspots (Western Power Distrib), Priority Services register · PR: publicly-owned assets Birmingham City Council disposed of since April 2016 (Bureau Local hackday) Wishlist · Cycle, Swift data · Supply side of pharmacists data · Map data · EPC ratings · All regional charitable funders data · Any organisation funded by a local authority · Twitter (@MrSuperSprout): Bus routes, bus times spatially, empty and void properties, road traffic collision locations |
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| ODI node | No update on the current status | ||||
| Data Discovery Centre progress | TJ wasn’t present due to working on Traffex so no report | ||||
| Open Data events | Open Data Camp 2019 being planned | ||||
| 3. PRESENTATION | |||||
| Coventry City Council:
Bringing it all together! Building a citywide intelligence hub for place-based joint strategic needs assessment |
Project aims to champion better decision making through increased access to data in a single city-wide performance management/intelligence hub | ||||
| CCC has access to large amount of data | |||||
| Using the Boston Matrix, aim to make better use of data and governance accountability | |||||
| Aim to make data usage agile, through an engagement platform/performance hub with meaningful impact | |||||
| Linked to Joint Strategic Needs Assessment response to Coventry Health and Wellbeing delivery, brings together data and service development | |||||
| Coventry has a place–based approach following the Kings Fund guidance of groups of 35k population areas | |||||
| Way of changing the consultation process. | |||||
| Using external data to generate comparisons | |||||
| Discussion: Issue for developing conversation about how VCS, community data can begin to be incorporated into JSNA platforms; WMODF can begin to explore how this can be done e.g. new London Cultural Infrastructure Map – plots the location of cultural infrastructure and enables user to view it alongside useful contextual data, like transport networks and population growth. Coventry has previously had a City Camp – possibility of a JSNA Hack? | |||||
| 4. WMODF PLAN FOR 2019 | |||||
| Update and potential demo project | Action plan 2019 now available on WMODF website | All members | |||
| Agreed that WMODF should get some joint data published across the authorities (Strategic objective No.3) | |||||
| Various datasets proposed | |||||
| Action: Each member to propose a single dataset, with final agreement to be reached at May meeting | |||||
| 5. MEMBERS’ BRIEF UPDATES | |||||
| Round robin of items and events not on agenda | PR: 29th-31st March – Brum Service Jam, part of the Global Service Jam process taking place in Birmingham at Impact Hub Birmingham and Melting Pot | ||||
| PR: 8th April – Democracy Club SoPNDay party at Impact Hub Birmingham | |||||
| Charlotte Johns, Head of Local Economy, City of Wolverhampton Council (by email):
· Wolverhampton are in the process of agreeing a new Council Plan, which includes a specific priority in relation to data. · The Black Country council’s research and performance/data teams have just restarted a network led by Delma at the Black Country Consortium. The first meeting was Monday, and I took the opportunity to promote the work of WMODF. · Positive meeting with the University of Wolverhampton Computer Science department a few weeks ago, who are keen to do more work with the council in terms of data with their students. |
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| 6. AOB and LOCATION AND FOCUS OF NEXT MEETINGS IN 2019
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No AOB
Next meetings: 22nd May, Wolverhampton Civic Centre (to include networking lunch) 30th July, Birmingham [Note: July 30th is a change of date since previously announced]
Aiming to invite Rebecca Riley to 22nd May meeting
Action: Invite Rebecca to one of next meetings – PR [Update: Rebecca has accepted invitation to May 22nd meeting] |
PR |
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