A presentation for Living Cities.

1. An Open World?
Alex@oreilly.com
@digiphile
radar.oreilly.com/alexh

2. We spread the knowledge of
innovators around the world.

3. Technology publishing

4. Integrated media and conferences

5. Online publishing at Radar

8. What is the
power of
open?

9. In the 1990s, governments and civil
society spread the Internet globally

10. In the 2000s, mobile phones and social
networking connected us ever more

11. In the 2010s, big data will change
everything again.

12. “Ambient findability” - Peter Morehouse
Image Credit: Scott McLeod

13. Open source software

15. New York Senate
NY Senate on iTunes

16. Open Mapping

17. Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

19. An expanding number of data sources

20. Social data and crisis data

22. First Principles
“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.” OpenDefinition.org
“Records shared with the public digitally, over the
Internet, in a way that promotes analysis & reuse.”
-OpenGovData.org

23. Open Data
Graphic Credit: Justin Grimes

24. Open government data platforms

25. Open data allows citizens to be
generative in new ways

28. HHS Community Health Data

31. “Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s
restaurant inspection site has gone from
10,000 hits per month to 124,000”
- New York Times

33. Fauxpen Data
In an age of “openwashing”…
We need to:
Evaluate licenses.
Peruse the Terms of Service.
Review the governance.
Look at community.
Check the format.

35. “If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and
scrape data,” then…
Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to
release data” in easy to use formats.
Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”,
and those sources of data are going to be
automated and updated in real-time.”
-JavaunMoradi, NPR

36. Snowmageddon

37. Chicago Shovels

38. Open Innovation

39. Top Coder

40. Solar Flares and Innocentive

42. Crowdsourcing?

44. Citizensourcing

45. A long(itude) history of contests and
challenges
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47. Open Journalism

48. What does Open Journalism look like?
“A man dies at the heart of a protest: a reporter
wants to discover the truth.
A journalist is seeking to contact anyone who can
explain how another victim died while being
restrained on a plane.
A newsroom has to digest 400,000 official
documents released simultaneously.”
-Alan Rusbridger

49. The
stream

50. “We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

51. Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

53. “Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

55. Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories.
We use them like we use a telephone.
The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros
USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

56. Homicide Watch

57. Data journalists, meet civic hackers
Source: BuzzData

58. What’s next?

59. "The future is
here.
It's just not
evenly
distributed yet."

60. The future is mobile.
In 2012, 88% of
Americans have a
cellphone. 46%
have smartphone
60%+ of
American adults
go online
wirelessly.
Source: Pew
Internet

61. Pervasive connectivity
Image Credit: PetitInvention

62. Better apps to audit data

64. Smarter cities
Source: IBM

65. Augmented streets

66. Augmented overload!
Image Credit: Daonk.org

67. spime
“A theoretical object that can be tracked precisely in
space and time over the lifetime of the object”
-Wordspy Image Credit: @knolleary

68. Cities of spime
Image Credit: City Of Sound

69. Makers and open source hardware

71. Safecast
open source
Geiger counter

72. "The transparency genie is out of the bottle —
world wide — and it's not going back into the
darkness of that lantern ever again.
Progress will be slow, but it will be progress.”
- Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation

73. Crimespotting

76. Transparency is not enough
Data illiteracy is leading to a
new data divide.
Risk: open data empowers
the empowered.
Illustration: Brock Davis

77. Bridge the
data divide
Digital signage on the cheap

78. Privacy
challenges

79. Cities + Internet of Things: H20

80. Smarter commuting through data
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

81. Smarter cycling

82. Source

83. Source: Greater Greater Washington

84. Smart infrastucture: Stockholm
• A measurable decrease in air pollution
through changing traffic patterns. Image source: New York Times

85. Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh