National Framework for Open Data in municipal and county operations

Purpose and goal

The project has successfully launched Forum Öppna Data and a network for municipalities. A combined stakeholder analysis and impact mapping has been completed. The excellent basic work done in IT-forum Stockholms region, was picked up by this project and adapted to a national perspective to provide a first version of a framework and guidance. Also metadata descriptions for several municipal dataset have been created and can now be added to oppnadata.se. Templates for such descriptions has also been produced and an example of how a guide for describing metadata can look like.

Results and expected effects

Forum Öppna Data has been very sucessfully with many participants. By letting different stakeholders to meet up new activities and projects have initiated and started. The network for municipalities have gathered some of the most active and interested municipalities, and they have changed experience and challenges, and identified common needs. The network together with the guidelines make a good basis for the coming work with broad publication of important datasets. The surveys make a good material for planning coming activities of communication.

Approach and implementation

The project has been executed with a legible national and collaborating perspective. Collaboration and activities has been executed with VINNOVA, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications and the eGovernment delegation. The work has been executed by a central coordinated resource which have established the work and created discussion among civil servants and politicians through several national and regional forum. It has been obvious that so far it is only a few municipalities and enthusiasts that do activities, are part in the dialogue and can show results.