Beyond Aid:Open Data is coming

Prague, 4 October 2011

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untapped abundance

What is open data?

•public data

•available digitally and on-line

• in open standards and machine-readable

•usable for all, for anything

democratic control

transparency

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frankfurt gestalten

participation

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Findtoilet

self empowerment

self empowerment

efficient government

effective government

new services

new products

http://weblab.ab-c.nl/

new government services

new knowledge

http://www.fastcompany.com/1776331/esoc-empirical-study-of-conflict-stanford-princeton Fast Company, 29-8-2011

EU PSI Directive / INSPIRE / Århus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docjohnboy/4106899304/

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/

EC VP Neelie Kroes

http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/news-items/Kroes20100519.jpg/image_view_fullscreen

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“I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!”

“We are going to open up the public sector in Europe.”

EC VP Neelie Kroes

data.gov.uk

aporta.es

Greece

data.overheid.nl

Basque

Piemonte

Vienna

data.eu in 2012

Licensing: UK OGL

accumulating mass, creating gravity pull

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomaaas/3870361701/

Access ~ Re-useTransparency ~ (Comm) Re-useNon-commercial ~ Commercial

PSI ~ Open Data

distinctions blurring

tools emerging

opendatachallenge.org: 430 entries!

Access still biggest issue

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Costs too much; Whatʼs the business case; Has commercial value; Possible privacy issues; Confidential info; Itʼs not ours, and we donʼt know who owns it; Itʼs not ours and supplier wonʼt allow it; The quality isnʼt very good; We donʼt know where it is; Not our job; Itʼs in a useless format anyway; I donʼt have the authority; People will misuse the data; People will use it wrongly; Only we understand our data; Weʼll get sued; Files are just too big; Too little bandwith; It starts with this, but whereʼs the end? Itʼs there, but canʼt be opened; Data is dated/too old; Itʼs not in digital format; Is this even legal?; Our Minister says no; We never have done this before, why start now?; I donʼt see the use; Nobody will be interested; No time; No resources; Just do FOIA requests; Weʼll publish it redacted; Itʼs not complete; It contains errors; Itʼs commercially sensitive; Combining this with other data is dangerous; People will come to wrong conclusions; People will get lost and confused; It will trigger endless discussions; We canʼt confirm or deny we have that data; Weʼll get feedback, and canʼt handle that; Our IT supplier says itʼs not possible; Our IT supplier will charge too much; Our site will crash; Itʼs already online! (but in unfindable PDFs); If people download it and use it later it will be outdated; I canʼt take responsibility for all the reuse; People will get angry; Our data is in contradiction to the data of the department that is in charge of the topic; Only we truly understand.....statistics/meteo/geo/laws; Weʼll disrupt the market; It will only be used to attack us.

excuses or reasonable questions

Open data is not hard, but change can be

• start with what is possible now

• do safe-to-fail experimenting

• (don’t focus at the biggest hurdles in the distance)

• involve others

• copy others (it’s about re-use....)

• acknowledge fears / hesitation

• see open data as your instrument

Actief uitnodigend

join the OGD community more strongly!

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CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.

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