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January 23, 2014

The Promise of Open Data: Business, Government, Consumers, and

Tech

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Setting the Stage

My Journey Through the Datasphere

The GovLab’s Central Hypothesis

When governments and institutions open themselves to diverse participation and collaborative problem-solving, and partner with citizens to make decisions, they are more effective and legitimate.

Setting the Stage

Setting the Stage

To achieve collaborative democracy, we must open up how government institutions work. We study three paradigms:

1. Sharing Responsibility2. Getting Knowledge and Expertise In3. Getting Open Data Out

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Setting the Stage

Open Data: Accessible, public data that people, companies, and organizations can use to launch new ventures, analyze patterns and trends, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems.

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Setting the Stage

• Entrepreneurs• Established businesses• Governments• Investors• Scientists• Journalists• Consumers

Open Data Changes the World For:

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Setting the Stage

• Big Data ≠ Open Data ≠ Open Government

• Big Data: Really, really big datasets

• Open Government: Transparency, participation, collaboration – with or without data

What Open Data Isn’t

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Setting the Stage

Nine Open Data Trends

1. Liberating Government Data2. Driving Business Growth

3. Smart Disclosure for Consumer Choice4. Smarter Investors and Better Companies

5. Open Data Shapes Reputation and Brands

6. Finding New Value in Personal Data7. The Open Research Lab

8. Data-Driven Cities9. Learning to Live in a See-Through World

1. Liberating Government Data

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Government Data

[Open Data is] going to help launch more businesses. . . . It’s going to help more entrepreneurs come up with products and services that we haven’t even imagined yet.

Open Data Becomes a Priority

President Barack Obama

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1. Government Data

Federal Data Today

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Government Data

• “Presumption of openness”• Machine-readable• Reusable• Timely• Developed with consultation

The New Open Data Policy

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Government Data

They Agree On – The DATA Act

2. Driving Business Growth

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Driving Business Growth

Open Data Fuels Businesses in All Sectors

Health Education Energy Use

Financial Services Transportation

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• McKinsey study: $3 trillion annually worldwide• 30 to 140 billion euros for Europe’s public sector

data• 2 to 9 billion British pounds• $30 billion for U.S. weather data• Tens of billions for U.S. GPS data• Hundreds of billions for U.S. health data

What’s the Value of Open Data?

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From Weather Insurance to Green Revolution

Climate Corporation offices in San Francisco

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Healthcare: The Next Big Frontier?


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Data for Energy Savings

Ogi Kavazovic, VP Marketing & Strategy

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Managing Open Data: A Winning Strategy

3. Smart Disclosure for Consumer Choice

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Smart Disclosure for Consumer Choice

Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School

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Smart Disclosure: Changing Consumer Behavior

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Using Open Data Today: A Kayak for Everything

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Help for K-12 Households

Bill Jackson, CEO

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UK Success: Compare the Meerkat

Aleksandr Orlov, Spokesmeerkat

4. Smarter Investors and Better Companies

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Smarter Investors, Better Companies

40K Public Companies, Updated Daily

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Bridging the $250B Trust Gap

Damian Kimmelman and Justin Fitzpatrick, Duedil

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The Rise of Sustainability Data

Paul Polman, CEO

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$87 Trillion Says It Matters

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Consumer Data Drives Corporate Concern

Dara O’Rourke, Founder/CEO

5. Open Data Shapes Reputation and Brands

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Reputation and Brands

Social Media: 2 Billion Tweets a Week

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The Reputation Police

Michael Fertik, CEO

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Sentiment Analysis: Emotion Meets Computation

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Open Data from Consumer Complaints

Courtney Powell and A.J. Fouty, cofounders

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6. Finding New Value in Personal Data

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Personal Data

Protect Your Privacy: Got a Month?

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Personal Data

Data Vaults for Vendor Relationship Management

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Personal Data

What’s a Customer Worth?

Personal Data

• Sharing personal data for public good• Pulse Point: “Enabling Citizen Superheroes”

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7. The Open Research Lab

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Open Research

Collaborative Intelligence: Gamers Turn to AIDS Research

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Open Research

Patients Insist on Open Science

“If patients knew [how research works], they would be beside themselves. The system is really, really broken.”

Kathy Giusti, CEO, Multiple Myeloma Research

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Open Research

Tapping the Crowd with 800K Volunteers

Robert Simpson, Oxford Zooniverse Team

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Satellites for the Environment

Open Research

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Open Research

8. Data-Driven Cities

Data-Driven Cities

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Data-Driven Cities

How Wired Cities Use New Data• Optimize operations• Monitor infrastructure conditions• Plan infrastructure• Public health • Emergency management

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Data-Driven Cities

• Metro Chicago Data• New York: The Mayor’s Geek Squad• Code for Philly• Palo Alto’s open finances

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Data-Driven Cities

City Data: Next Bus for Commuters

Sim City Meets Participatory Budgeting

Data-Driven Cities

Data-Driven Cities

Urban Coding: Volunteers, Hackathons, Idea-a-Thons• Code for America: Peace Corps of Geeks• FCC: Apps for Communities• The NYU Experience: Hackers meet policymakers

to solve problems– Bus safety– Illegal apartment conversions– Price gouging in Newark

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Data-Driven Cities

DC’s Experiment: A City Report Card

Washington Mayor Vincent Gray

9. Learning to Live in a See-Through World

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See-Through World

Sunlight: Congress, Cronyism, and Campaign Finance

Ellen Miller, executive director

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See-Through World

ProPublica: New Data-Driven Journalism

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See-Through World

Fighting Corruption with Crowdsourcing

Open Data 500: Studying Its Value

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Studying the Value of Open Data

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Studying the Value of Open Data

• Criteria:– U.S. based– National or regional scale (mostly federal data)– Open Data must be key to business

• Almost 400 companies contacted so far• Wide range of sectors covered• Partnering with Open Data Institute to replicate in

the U.K.• Interest from 15 other countries at Open

Government Partnership

Open Data 500: Assessing the Value Rigorously

www.OpenData500.com

http://www.opendata500.com/

What Are the Lessons?

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9. What Are the Lessons?

• Use Open Data to evaluate business partners • Use new sources of data on potential investments• Give customers their data back to build loyalty• Release and use environmental, social, governance

data• Use Open Data for collaborative R&D• Learn to operate in a see-through world• Monitor the social web for brand-building and “social

customer service”

For Business: Established Companies

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• Use Open Data as a new resource for business development

• Focus on big opportunities: health, finance, energy, education

• Explore choice engines and Smart Disclosure apps• Help consumers tap the value of personal data• Provide new data solutions to government and

business

For Business: Entrepreneurs

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• Make Open Data a tool for transparency• Regulators: Improve markets by requiring Open Data• Use customer complaints as a form of Open Data• Share and mash-up data between agencies• Pass new legislation on personal data and privacy• Make government-funded research data as open as

possible

For Government:

For More Information

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Wiki: thegovlab.org/wiki/main_page/Digest: thegovlab.org/govlab-digest/

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Learn about Open Data at OpenDataNow.com

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New Book: Published Jan. 2014 in Hardcover and e-book

January 23, 2014

The Promise of Open Data: Business, Government, Consumers, and

Tech

[email protected]

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