Presentation about Open Data given to MA in Social Media students

1. Open Data

2. What is Open Data?
Open Government Data are all stored data of the public sector
which could be made accessible by government in the public
interest without any restrictions on usage and distribution.
Geiger and Lucke (2011)

3. Why now?
Access to broadband
Cheap storage
Cloud computing

4. What are the benefits of Open
Data?

5. Approaches to Open Data
#1 The Hackathon

6. The Hackathon
Data
+
Geeks
+
Pizza
+
Overnight
(I don't understand the overnight bit)

10. Approaches to Open Data
#2 The App Competition

11. The App Competition
Data
+
Geeks
+
Prize
+
A decent amount of time

12. Open Warwickshire
Quick Wordpress site
Some open data
Ipod Shuffles
Yahoo!

13. Library books

14. Approaches to Open Data
#3 Build an application

15. Build an application
Birmingham Civic Dashboard
Rate My Place

16. Birmingham Civic Dashboard

17. Birmingham Civic Dashboard

22. A bit of social media

23. Rate My Place

26. The benefits …..
(i) restaurant health inspection scores increased
(ii) consumer demand became sensitive to changes in
restaurants' hygiene quality
(iii) the number of foodborne illness hospitalizations decreased
Jin and Leslie (1998)

27. Approaches to Open Data
#4 Host an open data platform

28. Open Data Platforms

31. And a Birmingham Open Data
Platform.....?
Apps are nice
Transparency is good
How to get normal people using data?

32. A role for social media?
* Be demand driven
** Provide context
*** Support conversation
**** Build capacity & skills
* * * * * Collaborate with the community
Davies (2012)
http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2012/01/21/5-stars-of-open-data-engagement/