Big data is exploding exponentially and providing many opportunities for entrepreneurs. Open Data has become a global movement with McKinsey Institute study suggesting a $3 trillion economic value potential from open data. A number of "smart opportunities" are explored.

1. Big Data – Smart Opportunities
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group IBM Canada Headquarters
Markham Ontario. October 29, 2014.

2. Overview
• Big Data 2.0
• Open Data – huge potential
• Smart Opportunities
 Managing cities
 Managing our health
 Managing our environment
• The road ahead … concluding thoughts
Cover image credits: Harbor Research and ZDNet
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3. BIG Data 2.0
• Exponential Growth
• Analog to Digital
• Mobile everything
• The Cloud – IaaS,
PaaS, SaaS ….
• Sensor World
• Big Ecosystem
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4. BIG Data 2.0 - Context
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Source: The Open Data Institute (UK)
github.com/theodi/data-definitions
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5. Open Data, Huge Potential
• Foundational
component of
Open Government
• Open context
• Open Data – OGP,
G8 charter, local to
global
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City of Kitchener
Open Government Framework
Open Data
“ … open if anyone is free to access,
use, modify, and share it …”
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6. Open Data, Huge Potential
- Canadian Open Data Scene
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7. Open Data, Huge Potential
- Canadian Open Data Scene
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Canadian Municipal
Current Count: 50+
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John Tory, City of Toronto
May 8, 2014. Promise
“Double the amount of open
data from the City every year
for ten years.”

8. Open Data, Huge Potential
- Canadian Open Data Scene
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NFP Community
Events
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9. Open Data, Huge Potential
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Source: McKinsey Global Institute;
Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information
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10. Open Data, Huge Potential
- Where are the opportunities?
2012 Survey by Open Knowledge Foundation on
Business Views of Open Data Opportunities
Source: “Money for nothing – data for free. Hard facts about the economic power of Open Government Data”; 2013 Conference for eDemocracy and Open
Government. By Gregor Eibl and Brigitte Lutz, Austria
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11. Open Data, Huge Potential
- How?
Apps Contests, Hackathons, Entrepreneurs …
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Service Reminders Transit Schedules
Facilities Finder Health Inspections
Street Bump - Boston School Zone - Vancouver

12. Smart Opportunity
- Managing our Cities
• Cities are
complex
• Data core to
decision making
• Cities have BIG
data
• Challenge =
Opportunity
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Measuring Effectiveness & Efficiencies
Number of Cities
Detailed Indicators
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13. Smart Opportunity
- Managing our Cities
• Intelligent Communities/
Smart Cities
• Big Data opportunity for
better operations
• BIG Challenges include
Transportation, Efficient
Infrastructure ….
• Big and small solutions
needed –> private sector
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“Intelligent Operations”
Sensor City
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14. Smart Opportunity
- Managing Public Health
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the power of analytics – UK Case study
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• Open Data - Health
inspections
• Location & status
with historical data
• Focus typically on
restaurants … others
possible including
hotels, public
restrooms, transit
Health Inspections – Mobile & Web apps
Smart Opportunity
- Managing Public Health
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Smart Opportunity
- Managing our Environment
• Key issues via David
Suzuki Foundation
• With our natural and
built systems –
everything is connected
to everything
• Monitoring air, water
and land = BIG data
• Fixing our environment
is a new economy
Climate Change
Oceans
Wildlife and Habitat
Freshwater
Health
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Smart Opportunity
- Managing our Environment
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Provincial
Government
Municipal
Government
Conservation
Authorities Universities
NGO
Researchers
Federal
Government
BIG Environmental
Data Ontario -> Earth
… real time analytics & actions
… real time feeds
Citizens
Community
Groups

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Smart Opportunity
- Starting the Smart
Source: Linda Bernardi http://www.lindabernardi.com/tag/ecosystem-of-disruption/ Jury Konga
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19. Smart Opportunity
- Where is Smart Needed
• Everywhere!
• Issues typically are
local -> global
• Efficiencies &
Effectiveness
• Towards
Community &
Personal Wellbeing
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Source: http://singularityu.org/impact/

20. Closing thoughts … some trends
• Local2Global challenges increasing -> opportunity
• Big & Open Data are accelerating -> opportunity
• Government can’t do everything -> opportunity
• Smart solutions are being sought -> opportunity
• SME’s are innovative & agile -> BIG opportunity
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21. Final thought …
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Where we are
Opportunities to Explore

22. Thank you
Jury Konga
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Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
jkonga@sympatico.ca
@jkonga
www.slideshare.net/jurykonga
Affiliations
Canadian Open Data Institute - Cofounder
Open Knowledge Foundation – Canadian Ambassador
“Access by Design” Ambassador
Digital York Innovation
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