(Big) (Open) Data (as a service) in Wallonia

Open Data … Open Wallonia
[Big][Open]Data[as a service]

Data Days| 17/02/2014 | @awtbe | André Blavier

Agenda
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ICT vision for Wallonia
Public actors for ICT and Open Data
ICT platform for Wallonia
AWT’s vision about Open Governement
[Public] [Private] Open Data initiatives
• Walloon Government’s vision about Open Data
• Implementation of PSI European Directive

André Blavier
Web & Communication Manager
AWT

Laurent Noël
Expert
Cabinet du Ministre-Président

Agenda
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ICT vision for Wallonia
Public actors for ICT and Open Data
ICT platform for Wallonia
AWT’s vision about Open Government
[Public] [Private] Open Data initiatives
• Walloon Government’s vision about Open Data
• Implementation of PSI European Directive

André Blavier
Web & Communication Manager
AWT

Laurent Noël
Expert
Cabinet du Ministre-Président

ICT Master Plan
Web² / mobile
Real and virtual
worlds are merging

Cloud
Universal platform for
online services

Programmable
World
Social
Empowerment. A new
distribution of roles

Data
The new power
of data and analytics

Source : Master Plan TIC & AWT

ICT Master Plan : 5 priorities
• Digital planning. Boadband fixed and mobile networks,
regulation, smartcities, NWOW, ….
• Structuring the ICT sector. Better visibility, innovation and
ability to transform R&D into products and services.
• Advanced ICT uses in enterprises. E-business & e-commerce, elearning. Innovative projects based on ICT, particularly to tackle
major future challenges (climate, mobility , aging, etc.).
• Digital public services. Facing the challenges of digital
empowerment, Open Data and Open government.
• Digital education. Integration of ICT in the heart of the
education system. Universal access to ICT and fight against the
digital divide.

Public ICT actors
• EWBS. e-Wallonie-Bruxelles Simplification (eWBS)
• AWT. Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications
• DTIC. Département des Technologies de l’Information et de
la Communication du Service Public de Wallonie (SPW)

• … and of course all the administrations and public agencies
that implement ICT projects (on their own and / or with ICT
suppliers).

EWBS
e-Wallonie-Bruxelles Simplification (eWBS) is the agency
in charge of administrative simplification and
e-government in Wallonia and Wallonia-Brussels
Federation.

eWBS coordinates all actions against the complexity and
the administrative challenges. It helps, mobilizes and
encourages governments , administrations and public
agencies to implement the proposed measures.
eWBS reports to the General Secretariat of the Public
Service of Wallonia (SPW) and the General Secretariat of
the Ministry of Federation Wallonia-Brussels.

Banque Carrefour
d’Echange de Données
Crossroads Bank for
Data Exchange

BCED by eWBS
• Independent trusted third party offering services that
increase the reliability for electronic data exchange and
recording.
• Certification for authentic sources.
• Horizontal integrator for e-services.
• Institution legally recognized :
• to organize and facilitate the exchange of data from
authentic sources;
• to provide highly secured access services to authentic
sources.

Get in touch with eWBS
• www.ensemblesimplifions.be

• Wallonia
Chaussée de Charleroi, 83b - 5000 Salzinnes
Tél.: +32 (0)81 40 92 40 | Fax : +32 (0)81 40 92 41
• Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Boulevard Léopold II, 44 - 1080 Bruxelles
Tél.: +32 (0)2 413 25 10 | Fax: +32 (0)2 413 35 10
• BCED
Benoit Wanzoul, Directeur
bwa@ensemblesimplifions.be

AWT *… now+
Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications (AWT). Public agency of the
Walloon Region in charge of ICT, through 3 main missions: technology watch,
consultancy and promotion.
Examples of services :
• ICT observatory in Wallonia. ICT barometer : annual statistical surveys
(companies, citizens, education, ICT sector, health, municipalities, etc.).
Recommendations to the Walloon Government.
• ICT watch and content provider (awt.be). In close cooperation with the
main players and companies in the ICT sector in Wallonia, Belgium and
abroad (technologies, laws, business opportunities, etc.).
• Database of the ICT sector and ICT players. This directory gathers ICT
companies, e-commerce sites, Public Digital Spaces, coworking &
smarwork centers, ICT schools, municipalities and more.
• Professional forums and events. #mforum, #ipforum, #edtechforum,
events about e-commerce & ICT uses by companies and administrations.

*… and soon+ AWTIC
Agence Wallonne des Technologies de l’Information et
de la Communication. Public enterprise, subsidiary of the
new Agency for Enterprise and innovation (AEI), result of
the merging of the ASE and the AST.

The Walloon government wanted to keep a public
company totally focused on ICT.
We are in a global reorganization of our activities. The
keywords of this reorganization are : DATA and SERVICES.
One major project … The ICT platform for Wallonia.

Get in touch with AWT
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awt.be
awt.be/ict
awt.be/opendata | opendata.awt.be
awt.be/ecommerce

• Avenue Prince de Liège, 133 - 5100 Jambes
Tél.: +32 (0)81 77 80 80 | info@awt.be
• @awtbe

Open Data Task Force
• The idea is to create a task force involving the
AWT(IC) (and globally the AEI), EWBS and the
Walloon Governement … and of course all relevant
organization if needed (DTIC, …).
• Its role will be to identify, assist and support the Open
Data initiatives in Wallonia.
• Powered and hosted by AWT(IC) (ICT platform for
Wallonia).
• Laurent Noël will tell you more about it later.

Incubateurs

Ecoles

Pouvoirs locaux

A platform for what ?
• Historical missions of AWT.
• One stop shopping for the identification of business and ICT
actors in Wallonia. Simple idea : an enterprise equals a recording
on the platform.
• Validity and simplicity of the data. Each partner platform can
handle its affiliates and use all information without friction.
• Contacts with companies focused on their business (products,
services, brands, stories, ...).
• Permanent or temporary customized services (clusters, events,
maps, ...), based on an API / REST model (validated with partners).
• Technology open showcase for innovative ICT technology trends
(Cloud, [Big] [Open] Data [as a Service], NWOW, ...). The agency
has to be in itself a true illustration of Open Government.
• ICT support for the Agency for Enterprise and Innovation (AEI),
including tools, services and methodologies related.

ICT companies
AWT, TIC & TWIST
Clusters , eTIC label,
Spin-offs, startups,
Cetic, university, …

Other ICT
ICT related
related
companies & actors
actors or
E-commerce,
ressources
e-business, ICT schools, Municipalities,
Coworking centers,
ICT initiatives,
Smartwork centers,
digital schools,
EPN, PAPI, …
events,
…

Identity(ies)
Official identification,
adress(es), geolocation,
headquarter(s), Web & social
media, statistics, RH, …
// BCE and other sources

People
Contact information,
social media, subscriptions
(AWT, …), affiliations and
certifications (PME 2.0, …),
missions and events, …

Business(es)
Brand(s), products and
services (managed by tags //
OECD), Web & social media,
case studies, press and
media, …

Context(s)
Affiliations and
professional federations,
technology clusters,
opportunity clusters (fairs,
events, …), agenda, …

[Open] Data

Platform / Web
API / Data
Companies

AWTIC Website(s)
& applications

Companies
Entreprise

Actors
Entreprise

Actors

Companies
Entreprise

People
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Content
Entreprise
Services
…

API / Data
Companies

Actors

API / Data
People

Datasets and feeds
(on demand, …)
Websites
(Partners, events, …)

…
Companies
Entreprise

Powered by AWT[IC]

Clusters
Entreprise

Companies, direct backoffice management, …

ICT Barometer,
Companies,
geolocation, virtual
catalogs, fairs, …

The rise of the sharing economy.
A social and economic system
driven by network technologies
and peer communities
that enable the sharing of assets
from space to skills to objects to money
in ways and on a scale
never possible before.
Source : www.euro-freelancers.eu

Values of the sharing economy
Me >< Us
Ownership >< Acces and service
Global >< Local
Centralized >< Distributed
Competition >< Collaboration
Enterprise >< People
Ads & marketing >< Community
Credit >< Reputation
Money >< Value
B2B & B2A >< P2P
(Hyper) Consumption >< Collaborative Consumption
Adapted from www.euro-freelancers.eu

The 5 governance deficits
Loss of confidence of citizens in
their governments, particularly
because of the lack of transparency,
accountability and (real) citizen
participation in the decision process.
While digital
empowerment is
breaking down
barriers to citizen
participation,
citizens are
frustrated that
governments do not
allow them to
contribute to public
policies.

Expectation

Innovation

Legitimacy

Because of their bureaucratic,
centralized and rigid nature, public
services are struggling to address the
challenges of the modern digital
world and the needs of citizens.

Effectiveness

Budgets

Governments are paralyzed by institutional
inertia and pyramidal structures. They are not
agile, innovative and creative enough.

Deficits and budget cuts,
questionable expenditures
or taxes, ... suggest that
governments are not
really able to deal with
real world problems.

Source : thegovlab.org

“Open” Government
From a push and top-down model,
Openness. Problems solved with the
to a model involving a maximum
intelligence of the crowd, rather than only by
of voices in the
public services. Validation and
governance
co-design by allied
process
citizens
Deliberative
Centralized
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Transition from
Collaborative Decentralized
Networks, online and
intuition and
cloud platforms, 3D,
repetition based
DIY, crowdfunding &
models to processes
crowdsourcing, loss
Static
Intuitive
based on the richness
of influence of
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6
and intelligence of
"historical“
Evolutive
Goals
Empowerment
data, and on wide
monopolies and
numérique
scale
intermediaries …
experimentation,
Intermediary
Closed
for better decisions
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Platform
Open
Cloud, mobile,
apps, augmented services,
programmable Web, suppression
of time and location barriers, NWOW, …

Personalization
of content and services,
One2One, pertinent and individual
experiences, collective proposals, …

Source : thegovlab.org

Just for fun … some thoughts ;-)
• Online services are (often) too dependent on specific platforms (CMS ,
etc.). … You MUST use Drupal or Open Source of course ;-)
• Time to market for Websites and services is toooooooo long. Public
services must shift from an automatic outsourcing model to a
co-development model where administrations get highly involved.
• Digital public services should be designed to allow their (partial or full)
integration with on other platforms and systems (websites, applications,
workflows, etc.) on which the public sector loses control.
• Today, a website is the natural way to online services. But who can say
that this will the same in the future ? We must anticipate the new digital
ways that will be used to consume information and services.
• Do we allow a kind of “geek” citizen to take control ? Currently, Open
data does not interest "real" people. Go on the street, ask people and you
will undestand ;-) … an interesting question for our schools !
• Do you really think that ICT will simplify procedures and systems ...
simply not simplifiable ? Should we not devote our energy in priority to
simplify our incredible belgian legislative and institutional back-office ?

Bspace.be
• The main goal is to implement an interactive
database covering the entire territory of Wallonia
and providing an inventory of public industrial real
estate for economic activities (business parks, port
areas, unoccupied buildings, industrial wastelands,
etc.).
• Tool for decision support and promotion to potential
investors.
• Target : foreign and local investors.
• Database manager : DGO6.
• Development and management : AWT.
• www.bspace.be

Bspace.be
• Open products and standards : LAMP Server (Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP).
• “From scratch” development (without any CMS) focused on the
data.
• Web standards : XHTML, HTML5, CSS, AJAX (Jquery), …
• Geolocation and interactive calculation of distances inside
Google Maps.
• Data gathered from various (and sometimes not digital) data
formats and sources managed by the public economic
development companies (intercommunales). Once recorded in
BeSpace, these data can be (re)consumed in an “Open data
way” by all their initial owners through API and Web services …
In fact the AWT already proposed this kind of services for a long
time on his “Vigie” ICT database ;-)
• Multi-criteria search. Multi-formats results.

geoportail.wallonie.be
• On this portal, more than 70 sets of data and
applications are available. Most of them are free but
subject to license, except data PICC (IT Project continues
mapping)
• Licence : geoportail.wallonie.be/files/LicData.pdf
• Service public de Wallonie
Département de la Géomatique
Direction de l'Intégration des géodonnées
Chaussée de Charleroi, 83 bis - 5000 Namur
Tél. : +32 (0)81 71 59 13
helpdesk.carto@spw.wallonie.be
• Contact AWT : Stéphane Vince | sv@awt.be

The future of the AWT[IC]
… can be summarized
in on word : DATA

Open Data for Wallonia
For many years , the AWT has collected extensive data on ICT uses in
Wallonia. These data are presented each year in the Wallonia’s ICT
barometer. Theses data are now available in Open Data:
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ICT equipment and uses of walloon companies;
Analysis of websites and ICT Walloon municipalities uses;
ICT equipment and uses of Walloon citizens;
ICT equipment and uses of schools in Wallonia;

opendata.awt.be. Finally, inside the global project of the ICT platform
for Wallonia, AWT has launched an Open Data service. Its goal is to
enable all public services of Wallonia to open their data. It’s based on
CKAN (open source data portal software). Still in Beta … but workforces
will arrive at the end of February 2014.
The AWT will follow an “Open Governement” strategy and rely as much
as possible on digital communities.

First eGov hackathon …
• The first hackathon e-government in Belgium took place
in Namur 4, 5 and 6 October 2013.
• For three days, developers and managers of regional
public services and citizen-users came together for one
goal : working prototypes of one or more online service(s)
for “real” users (citizens, companies, …).
• eGov Hackathons are focused on the development of an
application or a service to citizens. Public services are
closely involved these events and their members can be
integrated into the teams.
• Public administrations and operators agree to provide
usable data sets in order to give developers the raw
material that will allow them to develop applications that
provide a tangible and real for users service.

… ProchainBus …
• Innovative application that allows quick access to bus schedules.
The added value of the app is the ability to provide a count of time
and distance to your stop and to send an alert when the bus is
about to arrive.
• Based on Crowdsourcing , ProchainBus.be has managed to create
a real community.
• During a #mforum in 2013 (AWT’s forum about mobile
technologies), ProchainBus’ founder Thomas Hermine announced
the conclusion of a partnership with the SRWT (Public
Transportation Company in Wallonia / TEC) that will provide all
official schedules and bus stops locations.
• This project was formalized by SRWT on June 25th, 2013 . This
achievement confirms the strong message about the necessity for
public services to open their data and to work in partnership with
the civil society.

… ProchainBus …

SRWT = 5000 employees
ProchainBus = 1 developer
Digital empowerment

Source : prochainbus.be

… and the 2nd eGov hackathon
• A second e-government hackathon will take place in
Namur from 4th to 5th april 2014.
The main topic will be mobility.
• Support from AWT, University of Namur … and more
and more from public services.
• … and the final step from the SRWT on the road to
Open Data ! The SRWT group has decided to share
completely their data through opendata.awt.be. This
is a main breakthrough for Open Data in Wallonia.
• More information :
www.hackathonegovwallonia.net
www.awt.be/opendata

Namur Smartcity
As part of their mission and inside the general FEDER project
supported by the Economic Office of Namur (BEP), AWT and
Namur’s University intend to play a major role in the development
of an innovative model for "digital governance."
3 major objectives :
• positioning Namur as the “digital capital” of Wallonia. Namur must
embody an innovative model of digital governance that integrates
technology, legal and practical aspects.
• Facilitating and supporting digital public services and Open Data
initiatives by citizens and associations. Namur has to become a
place for activation and convergence of digital communities.
• Contributing to technological innovation in the ICT sector in
Wallonia. Namur will create a physical hub of expression and
development for companies from the ICT sector.

Big Data Innovation Platform
Initiative by private partners supported by Wallonia (ICT master
plan) to accelerate time to market for new products, processes
or innovative services to enterprises.
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Hardware and/or virtual infrastructure.
Shared and open.
Offering skills and services.
Driven by companies, based on the needs of the
competitiveness poles (Marshall Plan) and their international
jury in connection with the Governement.

More info :

• Damien Hubaux (CETIC) | damien.hubaux@cetic.be
• www.awt.be/bigdata

Contacts et infos
André Blavier | ab@awt.be
@unpeudeblabla
Stéphane Vince | sv@awt.be
www.awt.be
www.twitter.com/awtbe
www.facebook.com/awtbe
www.awt.be/web/rss
www.youtube.com/user/awtbe

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