SHOULD I CAREABOUT OPENDATA?

ANDYDICKINSONresearcher &senior lecturerjournalism

InnovateUK & NESTAhyperlocal demonstratorLeeds & YorkOpen data & hyperlocalcontent .

MEDIA MILL PROJECT

VolumeVelocityVarietyVeracity

BIGDATA

OPENSOURCE

Open data and content canbe freely used, modified,and shared by anyone forany purpose

http://opendefinition.org/

- Open Data by default - Improved Governance - Innovation

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter

make your stuff available on the Web

make it available as structured data

use non-proprietary formats

use URIs to denote things

link your data to other data

http://5stardata.info/

Raw: A great start at the basics of publishingopen data.Pilot: Data users receive extra support from,and can provide feedback to the publisher.Standard: Regularly published open data withrobust support that people can rely on.Expert: An exceptional example ofinformation infrastructure.

https://certificates.theodi.org/about

Showme themoney

UK Government took 45% (53 days)longer than the EU average tocomplete an EU compliant tender in2013. [that] starves the UK’s SMEs of£734m of cash flow each year

http://theodi.org/news/new-data-analysis-by-odi-startup-shows-uk-businesses-starved-of-22bn-in-cash-flow

“The Centre for Economics and BusinessResearch estimates that the EU’s movetowards more openness in data willcreate 58,000 jobs in the UK by 2017and add £216 billion to the nation’sGDP.”

http://thegovlab.org/nhs/

an annual turnover ofover £92bn.over 500k employees.70% had fewer than 10employees.

https://theodi.org/open-data-means-business

270 UK open data companies

54% of high growth firms collect andanalyse open data; in the case of lowgrowth firms the percentage is 36%

http://www.economistinsights.com/analysis/data-directive

ShowME themoney

datashine2011 censusmapped

spendnetworkpublic tender data

vitalfootprintmenu buildingfood allergies

Geolytixretail forcastingplanninglocation

FreemiumCross-SubsidyNetwork effect

SuppliersAggregatorsDevelopersEnrichersEnablers

http://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/deloitte-analytics/articles/stimulating-demand-for-open-data-in-the-uk.html

https://theodi.org/guides/how-make-business-case-open-data

openstreetmap.comdata.gov.ukmetoffice.gov.uk/datapointtransportapi.compostcodes.ioratings.food.gov.ukopencorporates.comons.gov.uk

exploit datacommercially &non-commerciallyas long as youcredit the sourcenon-end

open, attribution& share-alikelicenses for yourown data

WHATYOUTALKIN'ABOUT

Offensive tactic.Defensive tactic.Solve collective actionproblems.Forces added value.

Chris Taggart Co-Founder & CEO at OpenCorporates

OPEN DATAIS ABOUTMAKING LINKS

SHOWME THEMONEY

ODINE offers financialsupport of up to100,000 € to Europeaninnovators to grow theiropen-data idea into asustainable business

https://opendataincubator.eu/

http://bit.ly/smeopendata

@digidickinsonasdickinson@uclan.ac.uk