Presented at Opening Up Government Data in DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland as part of Irish Open Data Week.
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How AI, OpenAI, and ChatGPT impact business and software.
Introduction to Open Data
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Introduction to Open Data
Opening Up Government Data
DERI, NUI Galway
Deirdre Lee
8th November 2011
Stefan.Decker@deri.org
http://www.StefanDecker.org/
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“In God we trust. Everyone else bring data”
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, New York City
“My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented
level of openness in Government. Openness will strengthen our
democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in
Government”
President Obama, US
"This revolution in government transparency will make it easier
than ever before for the public to make informed choices
between providers, and hold government to account for the
performance of key public services.”
Prime Minister David Cameron, UK
3. What is Open Government Data (OGD)?
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Open Data: data that can be freely used, reused and
redistributed by anyone.*
Government Data: data and information produced or
commissioned by government or government controlled
entities.*
Not sensitive or private information but core public data
on transport, infrastructure, education, health, crime,
environment, etc.
*Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) http://opengovernmentdata.org/what/
4. Examples of OGD
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Zoned land for commercial/green/residential use
Polling stations and election turnout
Enrolments at schools and in funded pre-school
education
Bathing water quality
Noise maps
Street lighting
Bring banks
Traffic cameras
Cycle routes
Vehicle licensing statistics
5. Benefits of Open Data
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Social
Transparency
Accountability
Participation
Economic
Cost saving and optimisation
Promote innovation
6. Transparency
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To highlight deficiencies, mistakes and inaccuracies
within government?
To rebuild trust between citizens and government,
identify room for improvement,
encourage new solutions, and
remove inefficiencies.
7. Accountability
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To hold one person or organisation responsible for
errors?
To add objectivity to government,
validate resource allocation,
improve public-sector decision making, and
promote a fair public system.
8. Participation
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Opening up data naturally encourages
comments, feedback, critique, insights, recommendation
s, queries....
Starts a two-way discussion
Enables government to respond to real-time needs of
citizens
9. Data as a Resource...
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Resources: oil, gas, skilled
workforce, infrastructure, etc.
Data is also a valuable resource!
By-product of day-to-day
governance
11. Cost Saving and Optimisation
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Internal Open Data sharing
Avoid task duplication
Pool resources
Share results
12. Gov2Biz / Gov2Citizen
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Citizens
Government Businesses
Data
Media NGOs
Academia
13. Capitalise on Data as a Resource
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Consume
Process
Knowledge
Analyse
Enrich
Merge Products
Overlay
Services
14. Businesses using Open Data
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placr.co.uk
See real-time tube performance and departure info
TubeTap.co.uk
Request refunds from Transport for London (TFL) after service
disruptions
RoundaboutBrewery.com
Uses real-time feedback (mobile apps) to tweak the next round
of ale
15. Lessons Learned from London Datastore
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1. Two-way conversation
Engage with developers from start
Look at where and why individuals, private sector and NGOs
can fill the gap government can’t
2. Agility
Developments are not linear; they are emergent and
unpredictable
3. Go ugly, go early
http://data.london.gov.uk
16. Open Data Cycle
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discover
publish enrich
consume consume
enrich publish
discover
18. 190 Registered Data Catalogues to date
(datacatalogs.org)
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19. Neelie Kroes,
Vice President of the European Commission
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Open Data Strategy Nov 2011
Legislative: Changes to PSI Directive, which has governed the use of
public sector information since 2003
Investment: Make everything
accessible by default, build Open Data
into our public administrative
systems, get rid of case-specific
licenses, everything reusable by default.
Practice what we preach: Launch of
EU portal
Pan-European Open Data Portal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUpUD4l1Wo
20. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010
Open Data
Google Group
Nov 2010
Fingal Open
Data launched
22. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010 Nov 2010
Open Data ie.ckan.net
Google Group launched
Nov 2010
Fingal Open
Data launched
24. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010 Nov 2010
Open Data ie.ckan.net
Google Group launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010
Fingal Open opendata.ie
Data launched launched
26. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie
Google Group launched launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010
Fingal Open opendata.ie
Data launched launched
28. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Aug 2011
First workshop
of National
Cross Industry
Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011
Working Group
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie
on Open Data
Google Group launched launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010 Jul 2011 Oct 2011
Fingal Open opendata.ie 18-hour Open Dublinked
Data launched launched Data Challenge launched
30. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Aug 2011
First workshop
of National
Cross Industry
Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011 Nov 2011
Working Group
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie First Irish Open
on Open Data
Google Group launched launched Data Week
Nov 2010 Dec 2010 Jul 2011 Oct 2011
Fingal Open opendata.ie 18-hour Open Dublinked
Data launched launched Data Challenge launched
32. Join the Community!
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Open Data Ireland Group
http://groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland
Open Data Ireland Workspace
http://workspace.opendata.ie/