From: Laura Bacon <lba...@omidyar.com> Terms of Reference #1: Building a Case Study Repository of Open Data Impact (Part 1 of the Multi-Year Research Project on Open Data: Demand, Use, Impact)
Thematic Area: Governance and Citizen Engagement, Open Data Scope of Project: Creation of Case Study Repository on Open Data Impact POC: Laura Bacon, Principal, Policy and Advocacy, Governance & Citizen Engagement About the Organization Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network (ON) in 2004 based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $700 million to for-profit companies and non-profit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across five core initiative areas, including financial inclusion, property rights, government transparency, consumer Internet and mobile, and education, and several related cross cutting themes like entrepreneurship and impact investing. To learn more, please visit www.omidyar.com. We make both private investments and nonprofit grants, identifying likeminded organizations that we support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. About the “Open Data: Demand, Use, Impact” Project Omidyar Network plans to launch a multi-method, multi-year research project on “Open Data: Demand, Use, Impact.”[1] This research would attempt to investigate, clarify, and propose solutions to a market failure in the transparency and open data fields, in which the supply and demand sides have been neither aligned nor well-understood.[2] Omidyar Network’s goal in commissioning this research is threefold: 1) contribute to the general knowledge base about the demand, use, and impact of open data; 2) offer practical and actionable recommendations to policymakers, civil society organizations, and all those in the business of opening or demanding data; and 3) ground in practice the grant-making by transparency and accountability funders. If successful, this project will achieve the following outcomes, which could benefit governments, multi-stakeholder initiatives, civil society, journalists, and funders: 1) broad recommendations and insights about most-valued/demanded datasets; 2) specific policy recommendations in selected countries around critical data release; 3) increased understanding of how governments themselves can maximize open data for their own efficiency and reforms; 4) insights into how open data can influence governance and improve lives; and 5) an enhanced understanding of how, precisely, data is transformed into information, insight, and impact. Terms of Reference for the multiple research questions are in development and will be disseminated on a rolling basis. This TOR describes the first slice of research in this series. Scope of Work, Project #1 (Repository of Open Data Impact) ON is seeking to hire a researcher or research team to create a repository of case studies on the impact of open data. This retrospective-looking product will answer the question: “Has open data already had measurable impact?” It will be somewhat similar in nature to the McKinsey and Lateral Economics reports on open data. However, it will 1) highlight past and present impact, rather than projected future value; 2) be clear and rigorous in its definition of “open data,” 3) potentially involve different methodology and assumptions, to be proposed by researcher(s) and made transparent in the report. Reflecting on the past few decades, this repository will ideally provide 10-20 case studies about the economic, social, political, cultural and/or environmental impact that open data has already had. These cases will be presented at public fora, published online, distributed to relevant networks, and integrated into press articles. The researcher will select particular sectors and then identify the most compelling examples of open data use within each. This would likely include – but is not limited to – the billion-dollar industries created from opening weather, GPS, and transport data, as well as other stories on postcode data, contract data, beneficial ownership data, agricultural data, education data, etc.[3] It is critical that the research not profile simply “Follow-the-Money” stories but open data impact in particular. The research must establish definitions, assumptions, mapping(s) from the outset. A global perspective is encouraged for the selection of case studies. The final product could stand alone as a distributable publication and/or also as a living online repository, to which the researcher could add community-sourced suggestions as case study numbers grew. Key research areas for each case study · Who, if anyone, was calling for the data to be released before it was open (Demand-side) · How, specifically, it was released – including stakeholders involved, those supportive and against, specific leverage points, etc. (Supply-side) · Who accessed and leveraged the information over time: Users such as infomediaries, technologies, app developers, government officials, citizen groups, etc. · Specific, rigorously-evidenced economic, social, political, cultural, and/or environmental impacts. The analysis of impact could be original calculations and/or reports on other impact studies, to be proposed by researcher(s). Methodologies for how impact is measured (qualitative, quantitative) should be explicit within the studies. · Status update on where that field and/or dataset(s) stands in 2015 Roles & Responsibilities (overview, also see Scope of Work) · ON will collaborate on the research protocol with the researcher(s), who will be tasked with developing and refining the protocol · ON will work the researcher(s) to identify and finalize site selection for case studies · Researcher(s) will be expected to devise and execute research (including writing to a consistent and user-friendly output template) · Researcher(s) will be responsible for assimilating and analyzing the research and delivering a report of the findings · Researcher(s) will be responsible for revising draft reports based on edits from the task managers Please note scope of work is indicative, and final scope will be co-agreed with the selected researcher(s). Ownership / Control of Work Materials and Products All materials produced or acquired during the appointment - written, graphic, film, digital audio/video or otherwise - shall remain the property of ON unless and to the extent such rights are explicitly relinquished (in whole or in part) by ON, in writing. ON furthermore retains the exclusive right to publish or disseminate in all languages reports arising from such materials. In the event of early termination of the appointment or non-renewal upon its expiration, the researcher(s) shall, if requested by ON, deliver to it copies of all materials and data developed with ON funds. Any material developed by the researcher(s) under these TORs may not be used without written prior approval by ON Task Manager. All final products will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/. Budget and Payment The budget for the contract will be determined as per the quality and scope of the proposal. Final discretion lies with Omidyar Network. Payment schedule will be finalized upon contracting, but is likely to be as per below: Amount / Milestones 10% / Upon signing contract 60% / Draft report with outcomes of analysis, preliminary insights 30% / Final deliverable Proposal Content and Timeline: We are looking for a concise and clear proposal that clearly includes the following: · Researcher(s) Credentials: o 1-3 examples of similar past projects undertaken (with links/samples) o Approximate time commitment by researcher(s), by percentage o Researcher CV · Scope and Methodology of Research and Dissemination: o Proposed case studies (partial list), with proposed research methods o Draft outline of final product o Travel logistics (if necessary) and access criteria o Design / visualization needs (if necessary) o Extent of analysis / synthesis of research outputs o Dissemination plans and details · Deliverables and Timelines: o Key dates and timelines: interim and final delivery of outputs o Proposed opportunities around launch event(s), conferences, panels at which to share final product (e.g., Open Data Conference in Ottawa in May 2015, OGP global summit in October 2015) · Detailed Costing: o Detailed table with research costs, travel, time, design, production, etc. First round of calls: Please submit all proposal materials via email to Laura Bacon (lba...@omidyar.com) by 20 Feb 2015. ________________________________ [1] For more, request concept note from Laura Bacon (lba...@omidyar.com). [2] Market failure = A situation where, in any given market, the quantity (or quality) of a product demanded by consumers does not equate to the quantity (or quality) supplied by suppliers. [3] The ON GCE Policy & Advocacy team started to compile a preliminary list, so this chapter could involve fleshing out those examples. ***** Laura Bacon Principal, Investments | Government Transparency main: +44 (0) 207 729 9997 mobile: +44 (0) 776 501 3397 Omidyar Network Charlotte House, 1st Floor 47-49 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3QT This message might contain confidential information and is protected by copyright. If you receive it in error, please notify us, delete it and do not make use of or copy it. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
