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Open Data - a Right with Societal Benefits
1. Open Data
- a Right,
with Societal Benefits
Sponsored by Office of the Ontario Jury Konga
Information and Privacy Commissioner
eGovFutures Group
Celebrating Toronto Board of Trade Event,
September 20, 2012.
2. Acknowledgements
Appreciation is extended to the following for their contribution and
collaboration related to this event and presentations
• Dr. Ann Cavoukian and her team at the Office of the
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
http://ipc.on.ca/english/Resources/Events/Events-Summary/?id=92
• Toronto Board of Trade
• Fellow speakers
• Open Data community
Title slide graphics via TSO Limited (U.K.)
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3. International Right-To-Know Week
• Goal:
“to raise global awareness of individuals’ right to
access government information
and
to promote access to information as a fundamental
human right”
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4. Context
- Open Government Framework
Note: This version is circa 2010. Version 2 coming in October 2012.
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5. Scope
- A Global View … it’s pervasive
Over 55 participating countries
Over 180 Open Data portals
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6. This is
NOT
Open
Data
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7. Open Data Attributes
“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is
free to use, reuse, and redistribute it —
subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and/or share-alike.”
opendefinition.org/
….. also needs to be machine readable
with an acceptable Terms of Use agreement
Core Principles
http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/
http://www.ipc.on.ca/images/Resources/accessbydesign_7fundamentalprinciples.pdf
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8. Open Data Globally
- Participants at National Level
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9. Open Data in Canada
- Provincial Level
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10. Open Data
- the Ontario Municipal scene
Others in planning &
implementation stages
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11. Some public facing views of Open Data
Open Data portal & data catalogue Hackathons/Codefests …. Building apps
Citizen & Community Engagement – Unconferences, Govcamps, Changecamp,
Citycamps … defining the issues, identifying opportunities to improve
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12. Open Data
- the Apps Conte$t$
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13. Open Data Benefits
- a Citizen & Community perspective
• Ease of access to government information
• Economic development opportunities leading to job
creation
• Reduced costs for government operations
• Enhanced eService delivery
• Apps, Apps, Apps – for citizen, business and community
• Increased opportunities for community engagement and
collaboration in addressing societal needs
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14. Open Data Benefits
- a Business perspective
• Economic development opportunities
• Reduced costs to find & use government data
• Start-ups that leverage the data
• Value Added Resellers
• Innovation through new products & services
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15. Open Data Benefits
- a Government perspective
• Enhanced services to citizens and businesses
• Reduced costs via internal access and less external FOI
and data requests
• Economic development
• Improved government transparency & trust
• Increased citizen engagement, collaboration with
business and community groups
• Enhanced transparency and increased TRUST
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16. Open Data Potential
– Scale & Integrate
Public Municipal Service
Find the data
Provincial Federal Share the data
External Academia, Non-
OpenData.
Profits,
Data Linkages OpenData.CA Community EARTH
(e.g. World Bank) Groups
OpenStreetMap
Community
Updates
USE
Evolved from Data Infra-
structure model circa 1994 the data
Source: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010 www.slideshare.net/jkonga
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17. Open Data Potential
- a Larger Societal View
Wellbeing Ontario
RGIS
Real-time Global
Information Sensors
network
Wellbeing Earth Wellbeing Canada
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18. Open Data Potential
Personal Health Wellbeing - a Larger Societal View
Local Health Regional Health
multiple Providers Regional Health
Analytics &
Regional Health
Analytics &
Database Health
Regional
Analytics &
Regional/Provincial
Health industry Database &
Analytics
multiple Database
Health Analytics &
Suppliers Database
Database
Research Real-time Open Health
Community e.g.
Information Network
National Health
Analytics &
Database
e.g.
Personal Access:
e.g. U.S. Veterans Affairs
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19. Environmental Wellbeing Open Data Potential
- A COMPLEX ecosystem - a Larger Societal View
Global
WATER
Global
AIR National
National
Provincial
Provincial
Local
Local
Real-time Open
Environmental Network
Global Global
National National
Provincial Provincial
BIO-
DIVERSITY
Local
LAND Local
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20. Open Science Data
• Informal defn: “Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds
should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process.”
• Fundamental Goals – July 28, 2009.
Transparency in experimental methodology, observation and collection of data
Public availability and reusability of scientific data
Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication
Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration
• Opportunity for collaboration and benefits to society are HUGE
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21. Open Corporate Data
“The 147 Companies That Control Everything”
Forbes Article, October 22, 2011.
• OpenCorporates is a recent
initiative
• Aims: URL for every company in
the world & relating government
data to companies
• How about a “Good” Corporate
Source: The New Scientist; (Image: PLoS One) Citizen Index …. Occupy Wall Street
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-
revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html (#OWS) would be interested
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22. Concluding thoughts …
• Data is a strategic asset and ROI needs to be
optimized by making it OPEN
• Open data is pervasive and is gaining momentum
• It’s NOT a question of IF Open Data BUT … WHEN
Open Data
• Open Data is beneficial to government, citizens,
businesses and can enhance society at large
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23. Why Open Data - it’s simple …
Photographs courtesy of
Chatham-Kent
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24. Thank You
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
jkonga@sympatico.ca
Twitter @jkonga
Skype jury.konga
Other presentations:
www.slideshare.net/jkonga
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Notes de l'éditeur
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way
Examples of large, medium and small municipalities having Open Data “Catalogues” where people can freely access, download and re-use municipal dataI’m aware of others that are in the planning stages – so more on the way