
Aug 2022
National Open Data Programmes’ Virtual Round Table Series V – Data Sharing Across Public Service Bodies (September 7th, 2022)
Shaping Europe’s Digital Future – A Fair and Innovative Data Economy – 7th September @ 2 pm
We are delighted to host our 5th National Open Data Programmes’ Round Table “Data Sharing across Public Service Bodies” on the 7th of September.
Driven by the European Data Governance Act, Data Sharing constitutes a building block towards fair data-driven economies, putting in place the conditions for trustful data sharing. With this vision in mind, countries have taken different approaches towards execution. The upcoming round table will be focused on this experience sharing, very much in the spirit of previous round tables.
The round tables series is based on safe experience sharing from National Open Data Programmes’ leaders that are at different levels of advancement and maturity. We’ve run 4 sessions over the past 2 years with outstanding feedback from the attendees.
As decided by the group during the last event, the upcoming session will be focused on Data Sharing across Public Service Bodies. For this session we will have representatives from 4 countries (Ireland, Estonia, Norway and Slovenia) sharing their experience leading Government Data Sharing programmes, followed by an interactive discussion on the topic.
Agenda
- 2:00 PM – Welcome and introduction (Deirdre Lee, Derilinx)
- 2:05 PM – Ireland – A New Data Sharing Governance Framework for the Public Service (Nuala Byrne)
- 2:20 PM – Estonia – Data exchange practices in Estonia (Sofia Paes, Taavi Ploompuu & Martin Grunberg)
- 2:35 PM – Norway – Achieving one digital public sector through holistic information governance (Joachim Fugleberg)
- 2:50 PM – Slovenia – The Slovenian Data Exchange Platform (Aleš Versic, Alenka Rožanec)
- 3:05 PM – Managed group conversation
- 3:25 PM – Closing (Deirdre Lee, Derilinx)
Speakers & Presentations

Ireland

Nuala Byrne, Assistant Principal ICT, Data Governance Unit – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Nuala is a graduate of Dublin City University, the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and Kings Inn. She has worked in IT for the past 30 years with experience in the aviation and local government sectors. Nuala joined the Office of Government CIO in 2020 and heads up the Data Governance Support function within the Data Governance Unit. In her work, she advises the Data Governance Board and supports the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to deliver in their responsibilities under the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019. In particular she focuses on the ‘collect once use many times’ principle for data in order to achieve the maximum value from the data holding within the Irish public service.
Presentation: A New Data Sharing Governance Framework for the Public Service
Nuala’s presentation will look at how the Data Governance Unit and the Data Governance Board have worked to support custodians of data across the Irish Public Service, in meeting their obligations under the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019. The presentation will outline how the development of a new Data Governance Framework for the Public Sector has contributed to the drive for transparent data sharing.

Estonia

Sofia Paes, Data Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Sofia holds the role of Data Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia. Her work is focused on Open Data initiatives, Data Governance and AI programmes. Mostly her work revolves around keeping in touch with different stakeholders from private, public, and non-profit organization with a purpose of bringing data-based projects to live. Together with the colleagues from Estonian Information System Authority she has been involved in the process of modernization of the State Open Data Portal.

Taavi Ploompuu, Product Owner Estonian Open Data Portal, Information System Authority (RIA)
Taavi is the product owner of the Estonian Open Data portal. He works in the data exchange department at the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA). His main goal is to manage the life cycle of the Estonian Open Data Portal, ensuring the service is up-to-date. He is also planning the necessary developments in a timely manner. Taavi’s team work closely with the central government, local government and other stakeholders (for example, Estonian Statistics, private sector, universities, etc.) to understand what are the needs of their customers. Understanding the needs, they try to implement these in the Estonian Open Data Portal. His main partner outside of the Estonian Information System Authority is the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication. Together, they try to create an ecosystem where data collection, use, sharing, and reuse are an everyday part of business processes.

Martin Grunberg, Service Manager, Information System Authority (RIA)
Martin is the Service Manager of the Estonian Data Exchange Layer X-tee. He works in the data exchange department at the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA). Martin’s role is being the X-tee operator and owner of the X-tee ecosystem. Duties include
- Maintain the X-tee center on a technical level
- Provide support for X-tee members
- Continually try and improve the X-tee data exchange layer and its processes for ourselves and X-tee members – X-tee self-service environment
- Provide input and participate in the working group for X-Road software development which is actively done by NIIS (https://www.niis.org/)
Presentation: Data exchange practices in Estonia
In their presentation they will give an overview on how the data exchange via X-road works in Estonia and how they try to make data exchange more transparent by implementing new policies and giving control of other data in the citizens’ hands.


Norway
Joachim Fugleberg, Senior Advisor, Digitalisation Agency
Joachim is a senior advisor at The Norwegian Resource Center for Sharing and Use of Data, which is part of the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency. He mainly works to facilitate the reuse of data by coordinating initiatives across the public sector. He also has a role in developing and maintaining the national framework for information management, consisting of guides, standards, and information models.
Presentation: Achieving one digital public sector through holistic information governance
How does evolving perspectives affect the base registries.

Slovenia

Aleš Veršič, Head of Division for the data economy, Government Office for Digital Transformation
Did you know that Slovenia is in 10th place in the OECD OurData Index? Slovenia jumped from 19th to 10th place in 2019.
Currently Aleš is Head of Division for the data economy and his work is on Data Governance Act and Data Act and open data ecosystem.
The aim of their open data team is to create a modern system of open data, which would be a backbone of the Open Data Ecosystem of Slovenia and he is humbled and honoured to lead this team.
In the past, Aleš have successfully carried out:
- Establishment Covid-19 mobile app for tracing contacts #OstaniZdrav
- renovation and development system to opening the data of the public sector,
- development of the Geographic Information System platform as Cloud service,
- environmental spatial data quality control system at the Environment Agency, based on the ISO 19113 and 19114.
All of these experiences are useful for his current work and form the foundation of his knowledge in the field of data opening.
The achievement Aleš is most proud of is the renovation of the public sector data opening system and the establishment of the Slovenian open data ecosystem, whereas a project manager, him and his excellent colleagues managed to place Slovenia among the more advanced countries within the EU and OECD countries.
In his work, Aleš always pushes the boundaries, because that’s the only way we develop new things. His passion for sports can also be felt here. In the past, he was an amateur underwater hockey player. This is a very contact aggressive sport that teaches you to think fast – constantly looking for new solutions. The same is true in all areas. That is why he tries to look for new frontiers in his work, because only in this way can we achieve development, especially in the state administration, which is highly regulated by rules and laws. That’s why he always looks for new solutions with my colleagues, and they can also tear down a wall that seemed invincible at first glance.
Because Aleš is a geographer at heart, he is also close to the spatial representation of the environment in which we live. Therefore, he had the honour to be able to lead a group of exceptional collaborators with whom they established the GIS portal: https://gisportal.gov.si/portal. Among other things, they opened old military maps “Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-Ungarnischen Monarchie” on a scale of 1: 75,000 from 1880 and 1914 and part of the Franciscan cadastre from the period 1818-1828. In this way, they enabled Slovenian citizens easier access to archival data from Slovenian history.

Alenka Rožanec, Project Manager, Ministry of Public Administration
Alenka Rožanec, PhD, is a project manager at the Ministry of Public Administration, responsible for the development of common building blocks for data exchange. She also works as assistant professor at the University of Novo mesto, Faculty of economics and informatics. Her research areas are IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, e-business and data technologies, her bibliography includes more than 100 units. She also has extensive professional experience working on many strategic IT planning and enterprise architecture development projects for the public sector institutions and enterprises. She is a member of the Slovenian Society of Informatics.
Presentation: The Slovenian Data Exchange Platform
Ales and Alenka will present the Data Exchange Platform, which was developed within a large project in 2010 and consists of 3 main functionalities (the distribution platform, asynchronous module, and the data exchange component). The central component of the platform is the Tray. It is a kind of marketplace for data clients and data sources. Now we have 25 data clients, which are different government institutions and some companies. The data could be retrieved from more than 80 data sources among them are all important state registers: as population register, business register, tax register, land register, banks and some financial institutions. So, the Tray supports data exchange among government institutions, citizens, and companies (G2G, G2B, B2G, G2C, C2G). More than 20 million transactions were executed through Tray last year and the traffic constantly grows. So the architecturally renewed Tray will start to operate next week. It has been reengineered to a microservices architecture, to allow sufficient scalability for the future request’s growth. I will also present the use of AI (machine learning) to protect data sources from overloads.
MC Deirdre Lee, Co-Founder and Director at Derilinx
Deirdre is Founder of Derilinx, which has been leading Linked and Open Data developments since 2014. She has extensive experience in the provision of fully hosted and managed data solutions, as well as providing guidance and support for data sharing and Data Governance programmes. Deirdre’s ambition is to make it easy for people to discover, understand and use data. Derilinx is responsible for the development and provision of support to the Irish National Open Data Portal, Derilinx also work with a number of national and international organisations on key data-sharing and transparency projects
Previous round tables
- May 2021 – “Accelerating Open Data Programmes to support Public Service Digital Transformation and Economic Recovery”. We introduced the different programmes, shared the impact and challenges of COVID-19 and discussed what role Open Data play in reopening the economies.
- July 2021 – “Data Quality and Data Portal Features”. We talked about the biggest successes and challenges within your programmes, shared some of our Lab’s new feature’s prototypes and discussed what features/areas would be of more interest in the future.
- October 2021 – “The overall change and communication linked to Open and Shared Data Initiatives”, including ecosystem management (publishers and re-users) and the impact associated to it.
- February 2022 – “Data Quality at the point of publication and reuse”. We discussed the different interpretations of Data Quality (data itself, metadata, high value datasets) and the role Data Quality plays in data reuse, creating impact and getting insights.
If you are a National Open Data/Data Sharing Programme leader and would like to attend these session, please let us know.
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