In many countries across the world, discussions, policies and developments are actively emerging around Open Data. It is believed that opening government data can have significant economic potential, generating new industries and innovations.
This presentation provides a short introduction to Open Data, with a focus on available public data from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) - http://statistics.gov.rw. The presentation also explore the roles played by the group of actors involved in strengthening the Open Data ecosystem in Rwanda and the steps involved in monetizing open data.
4. “
“Open data is a philosophy and practice
requiring that certain data be freely available
to everyone, without restrictions from
”
copyright, patents or other mechanisms of
control…”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
5. “
“Open data is data that can be freely used,
reused and redistributed by anyone – subject
only, at most, to the requirement to attribute
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and sharealike.”
- OpenDefinition.org
6. Conditions for Open Data:
Open standards and machine readable
To be open, data must be accessible online, published
without technical restrictions to re-use, and provided under a
license that allows the data to be re-used without limitation,
including across different "fields of endeavour" (i.e.
commercial and non-commercial alike).
18. Key check points:
• The idea
• The data Business Model?
• The technology
• The design/visual
• The pitch
Examples
• Real estate/property data (houses for sale matched with data on real estate taxes, data on specific
properties, etc (Zillow.com)
• Data for business intelligence (such as what Spikes Cavell Analytics offers to clients - spikescavell.net)
Thx to @JeffKaplan88 for the examples
21. Conclusion
“There are substantial social and economic gains
to be made from opening government data to
the public. The combination of geographic,
budget, demographic, services, education, and
other data, publically available in open format
on the web, promises to improve services as
well as create future economic growth.”
- Open Data Study, May 2010
(http://www.soros.org/reports/open-data-study)
Issues with thesedefinitions: Open as in Open Source?
Closer home
Benefactor or Beneficiary? For Benefactor: Evidence based planning, Impact on quality of data
In the context of NISR data, any commercial/business value in data will come from combinations of data sets that can provide "business intelligence" to companies about certain markets, competition and investment opportunities.Specialized apps/Services - Selling apps in app store/android market!API subscriptionPremium data saleAdvertisements Subscriptions to additional features
Govt. publishes data - 3rd parties create tools for analysis and oversights - Citizens detect issues, give feedback - issues are resolved