Transcript Env 2016 - Data democrary - a new deal for the environment

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Data democracy:
A new deal for the environment
Dr Gillian Sparkes 13 July 2016
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CES Act & ESD
CES Act contains Victoria’s definition of ecologically
sustainable development (ESD)
Commissioner can advance ESD by:
Encouraging good decision making
Enhancing knowledge and understanding
Encouraging sound practices and procedures
Ensuring impartiality, openness, transparency,
accountability
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The main game
Better information = Better decisions
= Better outcomes
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A platform
for big data
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Environmental information
Role of Government becomes….
open and share data and platforms with citizens
statewide monitoring networks - key
environmental risks and public health
sense-making – facilitating and creating
intelligence on which to base decisions
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Data democracy
“…data is becoming the world’s new natural
resource, transforming industries and
professions… (and) mobile and social
technologies are transforming the way people
engage as individuals.”
Kerry Purcell, ‘The power shift to the hands of the citizen’, The Mandarin, 1 July, 2015
The power vof analytics
“Big data will move beyond descriptive data
collection to predictive and prescriptive
analytics.”
Gartner, Inc., 2015
The powervof analytics
Descriptive analytics: “What has happened?”
• Data aggregation and data mining to provide insight
into the past.
Predictive analytics: “What could happen?”
• Statistics, models and forecasting techniques to
understand the future.
Prescriptive analytics: “What should we do?”
• Optimisation and simulation algorithms to advise on
what to do in the future.
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Victoria’s environmental
IoT
Key response to Hazelwood mine fire:
“Establish permanent air quality monitoring sites in
the Latrobe Valley to provide up-to-date air
monitoring to the community through the EPA’s Air
Watch website”.
Result: Regulator now has the means to monitor,
analyse, predict and prescribe
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The power of
“Through 2017, the number of citizen data
scientists will grow five times faster than the
number of highly skilled data scientists.”
Gartner, Inc., 2014
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Victorian 2018
State of the Environment
Reporting Framework
State and Benefit
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A platform
for big data
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Data democracy
“.. the participation of the public is transformative
because it expands the range of participants and
stakeholders in society using and producing geospatial
information, with opportunities for more direct
participation in science, politics and social action.”
Max Craglia & Lea Shanley (2015)
‘Data democracy – increased supply of geospatial information and expanded participatory processes in the production of data’,
International Journal of Digital Earth, 8:9, 679-693, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1008214
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We report on the state of Victoria’s
environment to help government, business and the
community take practical action
Thank you
InformationvTechnology
Strategy 2016-2020
Information and data reform: to better deal with
complex areas such as family violence
Digital opportunity: better digital platforms for
access to everyday services – VicRoads; Births,
Deaths and Marriages
New technology: greater use of off-the-shelf IT
systems, shared across government and new
cloud-based platforms to further support
productivity
Better capability: improving public service
capacity for projects delivered to time, money and
specification - greater partnership with experts
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Citizen Science
(also known as crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic
science, volunteer monitoring or networked science)
“scientific research conducted in whole or in part,
by amateur or non-professional scientists”