This report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Marcos Bonturi. It was produced by the OECD Reform of Public Sector Division, under the supervision of Barbara‑Chiara Ubaldi, Acting Head of Division and Head of the Digital Transformation of the Public Sector work.
Chapters 1 and 3 were written by Benjamin Welby, Digital Government Policy Analyst. Chapter 2 was written by Jacob Arturo Rivera Perez, Digital Government and Open Data Policy Analyst. Chapter 4 was written by Lucia Chauvet, Junior Consultant. The case studies were written by Gavin Ugale with input from Dr. Michael Nest, consultant, on fraud in social benefits programmes, and research support by Alexis Bernigaud (Public Sector Integrity); and Seokhee Lee, Natalia Nolan Flecha and Daniel Gerson (Public Employment and Management). Piret Tonurist, Policy Analyst, Public Sector Innovation, and Cecilia Emilsson, Junior Consultant, contributed to Chapter 2.
The OECD Secretariat is also thankful to Bas Groenveld, Adviser on International Affairs, Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations; Sam Roberts, Senior Policy Adviser, Data Policy Team, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, United Kingdom; Claire Chapman, Office for Artificial Intelligence, United Kingdom; and Harry Armstrong, Head of Technology Futures, Nesta, for the support provided for the finalisation of Chapter 2.
All chapters benefitted from the strategic orientation and revisions of Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi. Benjamin Welby served as the lead co-ordinator of the report. Colleagues from within the OECD, including Janos Bertok, Klas Klaas, Edwin Lau and Stéphane Jacobzone, reviewed and provided comments. Editorial support was provided by Jennifer Allain and Liv Gaunt.
This report builds on the body of work produced by Jacob Arturo Rivera Perez, Reginald Dadzie and Cecilia Emilsson in the OECD Open Government Data Report, and the working paper on a “A data-driven public sector” written by Charlotte Van Ooijen, Barbara Ubaldi and Benjamin Welby. The OECD is also grateful for the early support of the governments of Denmark, Ireland, Korea, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom; the comparative data collection referenced throughout this report was made possible by their contributions.
The OECD wishes to acknowledge the ongoing support of the OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials (E-Leaders) and the OECD Expert Group on Open Government Data to the data-driven public sector agenda, with particular thanks to the Data-driven Public Sector Thematic Group led by the Netherlands and benefitting from the input of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, the European Commission, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Panama, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.