THE DATA WE DON'T KNOW WE DON'T KNOW
The Third Annual
data we don’t know we don’t know deliberation
Innovation Birmingham, World Open Data Day 2019.
Public realm provision
is designed and developed through -
Traditional
Model delivers services, in house, planned through restricted, silo
(departmental) focused data
Services gather data, feed
data back to decision making process.
This provides
· A
linear decision making process
· Fiscally
restricted budgeting
· Restricted
data identifying need—developing deficiency model planning
· Services
gather data which is fed into provision planning and the process becomes silo
focused and cyclical
The ‘Transformation Agenda’
This attempts to widen provision of services by developing a ‘market place’
The ‘transformation’ agenda has
involved some services being delivered through ‘external’ providers through
commissioning.
Services planned through
restricted, silo focused data with some services delivered through commissioned
activities, third sector or private organisations
Commissioned organisations have
to comply with public realm imposed
governance compliance. This can
and does restrict who can deliver services.
All providers must gather data
and feed in into the linear process
All service providers gather
data, feed data back to decision making
process.
The market place model is a misnomer.
Public
realm commissioners and funding programmes control the fiscal stricture,
designate the activity and output and therefore, by design, identify the cost
of a product / delivery process.
The data we don’t know….
Asset based community activity data may not be gathered:
Community led activity, faith based activity, volunteering and activism data is not collated and included in decision making processes.
Asset based, community led activity is not monitored for a variety of reasons—localised skill level, local data gathering is weak, data is ignored by public realm organisations
Public realm service provision data does not fully acknowledge what
people are doing within their community may be collected only when it interacts
with public realm provision.
Some services
may be provided as ’outreach ’ and do
not acknowledge local skills or knowledge, with project data and not asset
based activity data being collected.
