Engagement Fund: Health data workshop facilitated by Open Knowledge Ireland - one attendee's experience

As part of the Engagement Fund project, Open Knowledge Ireland has run the first of a series of 4 citizen workshops focused on exploring use cases of open data using hospital waiting lists recently published as open data, together with other health related data.

The workshop was a real success and we had a lot of professional talent in the room that we are now engaging with on an individual basis.

As one outcome of the workshop a participant has written a first person account of attending the workshop and the publication is getting traction on social media.

Read the account here http://openknowledge.ie/hwl1/

We completed a lot of analysis in the workshop including end user experience, story and journey mapping, coming up with a draft operating model for generating use cases, recommendations, blockers, and our anticipated long list of opportunities for use cases. This is what we wanted to achieve during the workshop and on the side we opened up the topic of open data and hospital waiting lists as open data to 22 professionals.

Open Knowledge Ireland are now documenting up all the findings, insights and outcomes of the first workshop.

Flora Fleischer, 

Open Knowledge Ireland