Value proposition of open government data - presentation to International Open Government Data Conference by Alexander Howard, Government 2.0 Correspondent, O'Reilly Media

1. “Living in an unevenly distributed future-present”
What’s the value proposition for open data?
By Alexander Howard
[@digiphile]

2. “Data is the next Intel Inside
-Tim O’Reilly

3. Data powers Web 2.0

4. Big data is a secret sauce
• The reason Google offered free 411 service
was to get phoneme data for speech
recognition algorithms
• Amazon, LinkedIn and Facebook use pattern
recognition and relationship analysis to drive
growth and connections

6. Gov 2.0: the power of platforms
• NOAA and GPS data
• NHIN Direct: an open system
for interchange of patient
records between physicians
(and ultimately patients)
• FCC.gov/developer – beginning to reboot one of
the worst agencies website

7. How do you measure success?

8. Cost reduction: FOIA and FOI requests

9. Job Creation

10. Internal Efficiencies “Employees whose
jobs required
them to search
agency databases
estimate they
lose an hour of
work every day
due to
inefficiencies in
the systems”
-OhMyGov

11. Better
data-
driven
decisions

12. Provisioning Database Journalism

13. The future is mobile.
In 2010, 82% of
Americans have a
cellphone.
60% of American
adults go online
wirelessly.
Source: Pew
Internet

14. Smarter commuting through data
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

17. Snowmageddon

19. The CrimeReports.com citizen tips network
has led to more than 122,000 arrests and
more than 45,000 fugitives caught.

21. HHS Community Health Data

23. Digital tools for open government
NY Senate on iTunes

24. Better apps to audit data

25. Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

26. More information
• What is the value of open government data?
(Govloop)
• What is data science? (O’Reilly Radar)
• Me: alex@oreilly.com