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UNLOCKING

OPEN DATA POTENTIAL

A key for Vietnam to play leadership role�in the Fourth Industrial Revolution�

November 2021�

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WHY OPEN DATA?

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Definitions and impact

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What is open data?

“Data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and shareable” (Open Data Handbook) and involves the “proactive publication of government data” (World Bank, 2021).

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Sources: Open Data Handbook; World Bank (2021): “Data for Better Lives”

Availability and access

open as a whole, for low cost, and in easy manner

Re-use and redistribution

including allowing intermixing

Universal participation

no restrictions on uses or persons/groups

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$232-389 BIL.

1-2 MIL.

15.7%

open data market size forecast for 2025 in Europe

open data employees forecast for 2025 in Europe

growth expected from high impact and high potential sectors in Europe

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Open data boosts the economy & governance

Source: https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/the-economic-impact-of-open-data.pdf; World Bank (2021): “Data for Better Lives”;

Lateral Economics (2014).

estimated gross value added from public data

0.4-1.4% of GDP

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Private company use of public data in the U.S.

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Open data stimulates businesses across sectors

Source: World Bank (2021): “Data for Better Lives”; Verhulst and Capla (2015)

Value of open data to businesses:

Enhance operations
Create new products/services
Provide commercial opportunities to serve as data intermediaries

Half of U.S.-based businesses (in OpenData500) – particularly SMEs - use public data.

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Open data boosts development

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Source: https://odimpact.org/files/odimpact-developing-economies.pdf

Case Study	Summary	Intended Outcome
Burundi: Open Results and Performance-Based Financing	Results-based financing (RBF) in Burundi is an instrument that links development financing with pre-determined results, aimed to strengthen accountability and transparency in government expenditure.	Improving Government
Cambodia: Opening Information on Development Efforts	Open Development Cambodia helps to improve the public’s awareness of current and historical information on development efforts through a data-driven online platform.	Improving Government
Colombia: Establishing Climate Resilience in Agriculture	The Aclímate Colombia project processes, analyzes, and publishes open government datasets to help farmers access climate and market data to improve their decision making and livelihoods.	Creating Opportunity
Ghana: Empowering Smallholder Farmers	Esoko is a for-profit communication tool that provides farmers repackaged data from different sources (including government and crowdsourced data) via mobile phones to empower smallholder farmers.	Creating Opportunity
India: Open Energy Data	The Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI) collects real-time power quality information in an effort to monitor power quality in urban and rural India	Improving Government
Jamaica: Open Data to Benefit Tourism	Jamaica uses open data to increase and improve its tourism sector, particularly by combining crowdsourced mapping data with open government data to create more participatory tourist maps.	Creating Opportunity

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Global Trends

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Governing & Data Types

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Governing Open Data

National-level

Standalone open data acts (e.g. Republic of Korea and Mexico)
Provisions within other legislation (e.g. Australia, India, and the U.K.)
Broader e-government legislation. (e.g. France’s Law for a Digital Republic)

Supra-National

E.g. EU’s Open Data Directive 2019 – includes “high value datasets” list which should be published for free for AI development.

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Source: World Bank (2021): “Data for Better Lives”

One-third of surveyed countries have open data legislation, particularly in high-income countries

Key attributes of legislation

Definition of open data
Principles that guide publication and ruse of data (Open Data Institute)

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Singapore leads the global rankings

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Source: Open Data Watch

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Government budget data is most open, land ownership least globally

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Source: Open Data Watch

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Vietnam’s progress

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Strengths and areas of improvement

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Vietnam ranks in top half in data coverage, but bottom half in openness regionally & globally

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Source: Open Data Watch, 2020

9th

Data openness

5th

Data coverage

Southeast Asia

(out of 11)

122nd

Data openness

86th

Data coverage

Globally

(out of 187)

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Vietnam’s ranking in Southeast Asia

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Source: Open Data Inventory

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Vietnam strong in open data technology/ infrastructure; lags in policy/legal framework

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Low/Medium

Policy/legal framework

Medium

Senior leadership
Government capabilities
Data management and availability
Data demand

Medium/High

Civic engagement
Funding

High

Technology and infrastructure

Source: World Bank (2019), Digital Government and Open Data Readiness Assessment

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Conclusion

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Recommendations & next steps

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Conclusions & Recommendations

Open data is essential for boosting economic and governance outcomes
Need to improve both data coverage and openness in Vietnam

Coverage particularly needed in social (e.g. crime and justice) and economic (e.g. balance of payments) data.
Moving to more openness by integrating data across the whole-of-government

Incorporate privacy and security considerations to protect individuals and companies when disseminating open data

Vietnam’s data localization requirements may restrain companies from contributing open data.
Vietnam’s privacy provisions currently split across both privacy and cybersecurity policies, laws, and regulations.

Join international open data communities and networks

Open Data Charter
Open Government Partnership

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THANK YOU!

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Tran Thi Lan Huong

Senior Public Sector Specialist

htran5@worldbank.org

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