Context and objectives
Our client is a country's digital platforms and resources department. The project consisted of supporting this entity in defining its strategy and implementing its new digital platform.
The public entity needed to:
- define a way of sharing data in an open data environment to meet its citizens' growing digital needs, technically through a digital portal;
- design and build an integrated data platform to collect, analyse and visualise data, and to build use cases on it;
- identify and build four high-impact proof-of-concept use cases demonstrating the capabilities of the platform.
Outcome
A complete data platform, use cases and portal were delivered, pushing the boundaries of what is usually expected of such products.
The platform keeps evolving and is undergoing audits ahead of the open data portal's go-live.
Our approach
Step 1: mapping
- Mapping of the data available to the client to identify potential use cases (more than 15), select those with the most impact and feasibility (four), and implement the proofs of concept
Step 2: data platform
- Definition and build of the data platform: a sovereign, secure platform able to support all present and future use cases. Its design highlighted the need for a very granular and secure data access system.
Step 3: open data portal
- Framing and build of the open data portal that catalogues and displays the datasets published by the government. The portal aims to go beyond a typical open data website, with self-service analytics and data science tools.