Post on 06-Mar-2018
Reuse of Open Government
Data
If you have data in a format that makes sense to you, it will make sense to other smart people too!
Raw data now, better data later
The legal framework for access is available, but it’s still missing for re-use
CONSIDERATIONS
Readiness: Government Citizens Entrepreneurs
Impact: Economic Social Political
Data: Innovation Social Accountability
HOW?
Data to Fact: Search, Browse, Extract
Data to Information: Manipulate, Analyze, Visualize, Contextualize, Report
Data to Interface: Clean, Combine, Subset, Configure Interface Tools, Write Custom Code, Provide Interface
Data to Data: Convert Format, Filter Data, Augment/Combine Data, Provide API, Dataset for Download
Data to Service: Integrate into existing product/service, Create new service
USERS
Government focus: Wanting to better understand government and to promote efficiency and accountability
Technology innovation focused: Interested in creating new platforms and tools, and in semantic-web/linked-data technology;
Reward focused: Seeking recognition and/or profit;
Digitizing government: Seeking technologically driven improvements in efficiency and functioning of government;
Problem solving: Using OGD to meet specific challenges;
Social/public sector enterprise: Using OGD to provide services in/to the public sector
IMPLICATIONS
Data is not just for developers
Data changes the gatekeepers and the role of civic actors
Data supports innovation in public services
Data can lead to concerns of politics, power and justice being under-valued
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Biodigital 3D: offers a voluminous library of 3D anatomical models drawn from the National Institutes of Health
Visible Human project, with National Library of Medicine text to explain them
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Clear Health Costs: Source for finding health care prices. Its motto is "Free the knowledge. Everybody should know what stuff costs in health care.“
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Flatiron Oncology Cloud Flatiron Health, which uses data to accelerate cancer research. The startup recently raised $130 million in a round of funding led by Google Ventures. Flatiron uses real-time data from patient records to create "a data platform that provides the most comprehensive view of a patient's experience in the oncology office in real-time." The company plans to offer a wealth of data from millions of cases so that researchers, doctors, and patients can develop new treatments and make better decisions on cancer care.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Switzerland:
Pollutant emissions
Foreign Population
Crime in Switzerland
Wage Rates by Gender and education
Public Transportation Visualization
Professional qualifications
Monetary Policy
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
San Francisco: Crime Spotting Map
New York City: Targeting Illegal Building Conversions Inspections
Louisville: Restaurant Inspection Scores on Yelp
Albuquerque: Reducing Transit-Related 311 Calls - People calling about Transit issues in Albuquerque were usually waiting for a bus and wanting to know where it was right then. Making these transit datasets available saved about $180,000 in 2013 in calls to the 311 call center alone.
Socrata: Analyzes city mayors speeches and correlates with most pressing issues (jobs, infrastructure, budget, public safety etc.)
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Guardian Good GCSE Guide (UK): To help parents find and research local schools in England
Visualising your neighbourhood with Illustreets: The free Illustrates web app uses open data to build a dynamic, colourful visualisation of any neighbourhood in England
Chile: Vota Inteligente - To strengthen participatory democracy and reduce information asymmetries between Chilean citizens and their government. The different features and functionalities on Vota Inteligente led to several conversations with other organizations working on legislative transparency and government openness, and FCI (Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente) became a founding member of Poplus, a global community of developers to share knowledge and technology
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Kenya: Open Duka - Kenyan politicians to be more accountable, responsive and transparent, and citizens to make more conscious decisions in their everyday lives – such as when voting, land buying or job seeking
Uruguay: A Tu Servicio - A Tu Servicio is an online platform that aims to make it easier for citizens in Uruguay to view and compare information about their health care providers
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
South Africa: Going the Extra Mile (GEM) rewards citizens who participate in initiatives such as waste management, community clean-ups and vaccinations. The project aims to boost citizen engagement, build trust and establish meaningful links between government and citizens. (www.gemproject.org)
Users earn GEMs by doing community work, separating waste, planting trees etc. Users spend GEMs on mobile rewards including airtime, pre-paid electricity, data & movie tickets.
South Africa: Citizens are updated on the progress of application of identity books and identity documents through SMS service.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Indonesia: Reducing Maternal Mortality with SMS, to reduce the high maternal mortality rate of women. Using an SMS gateway, citizen requests for pregnancy services and information will be received and responded to with requests being documented and, finally, published online. It aims to reduce the current high rate of maternal mortality of 359 deaths per 100.000, ultimately to zero. (http://sinergantara.or.id/en/)
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Indonesia: ORBIT - A Geographic Information System that gives Indonesian citizens access to information regarding government funded projects.
Ghana:
CitizenEYE. An app created by a team of software developers to provide Ghanaian citizens with information about the oil and gas industry.
Ghana Petrol Watch. A mobile technology solution to deliver basic facts and figures associated with oil and gas exploration to Ghanaian citizens.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Pakistan: Bahawalpur Service Delivery Unit (BSDU), provided a mobile app that allows officials and citizens to monitor attendance by teachers and students at school. The information is aggregated online and made publicly accessible. The aim is to enable and motivate citizens to collect, analyze and disseminate service delivery data in order to drive performance and help effective decision making. (https://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/bahawalpur-service-delivery-unit-bsdu/)
Nepal: Nalibeli.org is an open platform with step-by-step information on how to access a range of govt. services. Local Interventions Group is working in the Terai and Hilly regions for smarter governance.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Tanzania: Children Engagement for Government Accountability – to increase child engagement in governmental budgeting and policy formulation in Mwanza City.
Kenya: The Mandera Times – A ‘watchdog’ newsletter focusing on monitoring the actions of officials with the aim of educating, empowering and motivating citizens to hold their leaders to account.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
SMS services portal of Jordan: Enhancing the quality and efficiency of governmental services. It provides citizens with two types of services: (i) push messages by governmental institutions and departments such as reminders and awareness campaigns; and (ii) pull messages that are sent by citizens as an SMS inquiry and are automatically responded to by the relevant governmental department.
Singapore: SMS text service for members of the deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired community to reach emergency services.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Sweden: SMSlivräddare, or SMSLifesaver: Citizen volunteers can enroll to receive an SMS text when there is a heart attack victim nearby, allowing trained citizens to reach the victim and provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The average response time of ambulance is eight minutes whereas SMS-livräddare-volunteers have proven to respond quicker and reach victims before ambulances in 54% of cases. Survival rates after cardiac arrest increased from 3% to nearly 11%, over the last decade.
Spain: Over 150 companies focused on selling services on top of open government data
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
FixMyStreet (UK) and SeeClickFix (US) are map-based citizen reporting platform that enables the public to report and track non-emergency related issues, via both web and mobile.
Bangladesh: Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) is using an SMS-based disaster warning system.
Lungisa: Citizens of Cape town, South Africa can report delivery problems with water, electricity and other public services. The problems will be reported to the appropriate authorities and resolved via SMS, USSD, Mxit, Web and Facebook.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Nest Finder: Accessing essential travel information while on the road
DigitalNZ: An API that enables users to find and query data from across NZ’s cultural, educational and government sectors (http://digitalnz.org), June 2015
Businesses have one-stop online service/shop for all government support and can complete their transaction with government digitally (www.beehive.govt.nz).
China: Citizen-led science projects to measure water quality
Solarize: Help people to understand the benefits of having their own solar or photovoltaic generation in Austria
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Mandi Trades: Location based Farm to Shop (F2S) trading platform for agricultural products in India. The system aims to empower farmers through alternative markets, wastage reduction, lower transport costs
Rainbow: An information exchange platform to assist farmers to make informed decisions through the entire life cycle of a crop through info sharing among farmers in India.
Help My City: Share & Solve the concerning issues in a city with citizens and organizations in India.
Apps: SMS and web based promotion of breast feeding in mothers, Postal Tariff Calculator, Export and Import Data, Guide to Hotels, MPs attendance data, Alerts for piped water supply, Open blood bank web portal, Online registration of job seekers in Madhya Pradesh, Railway Train Timetable, OpenCivic,
India Water Portal (IWP), National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG), IndianKanoon.org is a legal search engine (‘kanoon’ being the Hindustani word for law),
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Italy: Compass of Transparency
Haiti: Response and recovery with Sahana free and open disaster management system
Trinidad and Tobago: m-fisheries
National Environment Agency (NEA): Co-created several mobile applications with private sector partners through crowd sourcing ideas from the public to promote greater environment ownership and provide real time information on environmental conditions.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Budget Stories: Moldova-based NGO is working to release budgetary information in the form of infographics, creating visual stories behind the facts. A group of students in Moldova is combining different cartographic and geographic data to produce maps that will assist the government visualizing certain domestic challenges.
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Slovenia: I suggest to the government (predlagam.vladi.si)
Citizen consultation in Morocco
Center for Innovation on e-Government Development in Colombia
Agency for e-Government development in Uruguay
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Japan: Bridge Monitoring System: Based on the sensor network and Business Intelligence, Bridge Monitoring System detects strain of the bridge and constantly assesses its structural health of bridges.
IBM Smarter City: IBM Smarter Cities Challenge engagements all over the world are demonstrating how the right investments in infrastructure can introduce long-term efficiencies and dramatically transform a city's prospects for growth. It uses data from Administration, citizen engagement, economy, education and workforce, environment, public safety, social services, transportation and urban planning
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
Japan: Vehicle Information and Communication System(VICS) provides real-time traffic data to car-navigation system. The service is provided through public-private collaboration.
Yurekuru: Earthquake early warning system
OPEN DATA PROJECTS
IndianKanoon.org
To analyze crime in New Orleans
Influence of money in polities in USA
Lobbying in Europe – Hidden influence and privileged access (Source: TI)
Nigeria School Construction
Puerto Rico finance data
Oil and Gas drilling data
Mexico’s procurement process
DATA JOURNALISM
Gathering, interviewing and presenting based on data
Allows for the exploratory analysis for various newsworthy questions
Country specific demand:
Public safety, economic development, political
Expected Data:
Students leaving school, Road accident, crime, public tender databases, social data, business information, health database, medical information, housing data, and many more…
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