My talk in the Saudi Arabia eGovernment Summit, on facts and challenges about open data and collaborative governance

1. Yannis Charalabidis
Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean
Manager, Greek Interoperability Centre
3rd Kingdom eGovernment Summit, September 2012

2. Why is Open Data important ?
 Organises public knowledge
 Leads to better, new services
 Fights against corruption
 Supports transparency
 Can motivate citizens
 Can contribute to better democracy
 Gives data to other sciences
 Gives ideas for start-ups

3. Can you give us some good examples
?
 Organises public knowledge : data.gov (UK)
 Leads to better, new services : data.gov (US)
 Supports transparency: diavgeia.gr (GR)
 Can motivate citizens: toronto.ca (CA)
 Fights against corruption : ipaidabribe.com (IN)
 Can contribute to better democracy: opengov
(GR)
 Gives ideas for start-ups: Open Data Institute
(UK)
 Provides data to science for solving complex
problems of the society: ENGAGE (EU)

4. The ENGAGE EU project on Open Data
 A European e-Infrastructure, for advancing open
data provision across countries
 To provide state of the art methods and tools for
data gathering, curation, publication, maintenance
 A public-private partnership of research (GIC, Uni
Aegean, TU Delft, FOKUS) industry (Microsoft,
IBM, Intrasoft) and administrations from 5 EU
countries
 Looking for “open data ambassadors” all over the
world
www.engage-project.eu

5. The ENGAGE “Two-way” Usage Scenarios
Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens
Delivering Open Data Needs and guidelines to Public Sector
Organisations

6. Open Data platforms architecture
User Interface Application Various Apps
Interface
(for people) (for systems) (PC & mobile)
Data Curation
Data
(annotation, linki Data Linking
Visualisation
ng, formats)
Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Directories of
UI API sources

7. Open Data Social
Natural
Sciences and
Governance
Platform architecture sciences
ICT
Engineering
Law
Policy
Modelling
Citizens
User groups Single point of
Access
Providing PSI to Research and Industry
Tailored data Governance and Citizens and
research communities services policy making education
and citizens in a
personalised manner Search and
Navigation tools
Knowledge /
Data Mining
Collaboration /
Communities
Directory services
and direct linking to
Data Service
Provision data archives
Visualisation Data Personalisation
Infrastructure - Analytics analytics
Curating, Annotating,
Harmonising , Data Quality Knowledge Mapping Automatic curation
algorithms
Data Curation
Visualising Infrastructure Data Linking Semantic Annotation Anonymisation Harmonisation
Public Sector Information Sources
Gathering data from
governmental Public Organisations, Repositories, Databases

8. Current Challenges for Open Data
Platforms
 Metadata schemas : how to classify
information so that it can be retrieved
 Full API and SaaS operation: automated,
direct input and publication of open data
“from the source”
 Citizens providing open data themselves
 Novel ways of visualisation for open / linked
data
 Build ecosystems around open data, for
sharing and usage that can make our lives
better, for real

9.  Open data, collaborative governance and ICT will be
key pillars of the new, value-based administration in
this century
 Open data and applications can play an important role
for entrepreneurship and development
 European Union member states, having already
adopted a collaborative governance example, can now
partner and work together with Gov 2.0 initiatives
internationally
 In the Greek Interoperability Centre and the University
of AEGEAN we can leverage on European
experiences and best practices, delivering them
worldwide

10. Yannis Charalabidis
Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean
Manager, Greek Interoperability Centre
Thank you !
Stay tuned at yannisx@aegean.gr
Twitter : yannisc

11. The top-10 countries
in the world
The European “model”

12. The top-10 countries
in Western Asia
Saudi Arabia:
41st in the world,
4th in the region

13. Un e-Participation Index
Country E-Participation Index
Republic of Korea 1
Netherlands 1
Singapore 0,9474
Kazakhstan 0,9474
United States of America 0,9211
United Kingdom 0,9211
Israel 0,8947
Australia 0,7632
Estonia 0,7632
Germany 0,7632
Finland 0,7368
Japan 0,7368
United Arab Emirates 0,7368
Colombia 0,7368
Canada 0,6842
Norway 0,6842
Sweden 0,6842
Egypt 0,6842
Bahrain 0,6579
Chile 0,6579
Russian Federation 0,6579
Saudi Arabia 0,6316