Presentation on Open Government Data Tools and Infrastructure for Citizen Engagement at the WSIS Forum, May 2012 in Geneva Switzerland. See: http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx?se=43276

1. Open Government Data
Tools and Infrastructure
for Citizen Engagement
Geneva, Switzerland
16-17 May 2012
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

2. About me
Daniel Dietrich
Studied Computer Science & Media Science in
Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany
Working for the Open Knowledge Foundation
since 2009
Author of several studies and reports on Open
Government, Open Data, Transparency and
Participation
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

3. Open Knowledge Foundation
A not-for-profit organisation
promoting openness in all its forms.
"From sonnets to statistics, genes to
geodata”
We build tools and communities to create, use
and share open knowledge -
content and data that everyone can use, share
and build on.
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

4. A Global Network
Chapters: UK, Germany and Austria
Incubating Chapters: Finland, Brazil, Belgium,
Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Australia,
Switzerland, Netherlands, India, South Africa and
Bosnia and ...
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

5. We build communities
450+ participants
40 countries
www.ogdcamp.org
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

6. We run open data competitions
20k in prizes for apps, ideas,
data
430 entries from
24 EU Member States
www.opendatachallenge.org
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

7. Tools to work with data
and to build the open data
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

8. What is open data?
Data is not a means in itself - it needs to be used
to create value. For data to be reusable it needs
to be technically and legally open. According to
the Open Definition:
“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
share-alike.”
www.opendefinition.org
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

9. Best practice for open data
Experts within the open government data
community have established a set of principles
for open data:
8 open government data principles by the
Open Government Working Group, 2008
10 principles for opening up government
information by the Sunlight Foundation, 2010
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

10. Follow the Stars
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor
of the World Wide Web, has
introduced a 5-Star-Scheme
You get one (big!) star if the
information has been made
public under an
open licence.
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

11. Keep it simple!
Implementing Open Government Data Tools and
Infrastructure doesn’t have to be complicated
and expensive.
Keep it simple!
Avoid 5-year plans and multi-million $ solutions!
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

12. The open data ecosystem
What if data is open but the tools to work with it
are not?
Tim O’Reilly promotes the use of open
standards and open source technology in
lightweight web applications as key factor for the
success of any Open Government Data platform.
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

13. The open data ecosystem
Many high quality and ready-to-use open
source solutions out there. Use, customise and
share them, help building the open data
ecosystem!
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

14. The open data ecosystem
The open data ecosystem is build on Tools to
refine & structure data
store & maintain data
publish & share data
explore & analyse data
visualise data
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

15. Working with Data
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

16. Tools to publish data
CKAN is an open source data portal
software that makes it easy to publish,
share and find data.
CKAN features dozens of governments' data
portals including United Kingdom, Brazil, Finland,
Norway and ...
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

17. Tools to publish data
www.socrata.com
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

18. Tools to publish data
www.buzzdata.com
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

19. Transparency
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
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Citizen Engagement

20. Tools for Transparency
Open Spending is an open source
software to make budget and
spending data more transparent.
Open Spending features dozens of governments'
spending data including United Kingdom, Brazil,
Kenya, Germany, and ...
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

21. Tools for Transparency
www.opencongress.
org
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Citizen Engagement

22. Tools for Transparency
www.openlylocal.c
om
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Citizen Engagement

23. Participation
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Citizen Engagement

24. Tools for Participation
www.fixmystreet.c
om
www.thedatatank.com
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Citizen Engagement

25. Tools for Participation
code.adhocracy.de
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26. Need help?
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Citizen Engagement

27. Guidelines & Training
www.opendatahandbook.org
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28. Guidelines & Training
coming
soon!
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

29. Guidelines & Training
The Open Government Data Toolkit is a user-
friendly guide for policy makers and
technologists offerings tools for understanding,
creating, implementing and sustaining open
government data initiatives.
coming soon!
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement

30. Thank you!
Open Knowledge Foundation
ww.okfn.org
@okfn
Daniel Dietrich
daniel.dietrich@okfn.org
www.ddie.me
@ddie
Future Government: A Global Perspective in
Connection to Open Government Data and
Citizen Engagement