An Open Data Story

1st Seminar

The Programmable City Project

Open data & evidence informed

decision making

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault

Programmable City Project

NIRSA, NUIM

Content

Discovering the power of data

Access to Data (Canada)

Open Data (+/-Canada)

Data and The Programmable City Project

Open data in Ireland...

Discovering the Power of Data

University Setting

Image source: http://www.geomatikk.ntnu.no/english/

University Geomatics MADGIC

Federal Government Setting

Provincial and Territorial

Geomatics Accord (2001)

Civil Society Setting

Geographic

and

Numeric

Information

Systems

Social

Planning

Network of

Ontario

Research Setting

R

Research Data Consultations

Access to Data in Canada

Canada’s Access Story

Universities / Research libraries, data & GIS librarians

Library and Archives Canada (LAC)

Granting Councils – SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR

Scientists – natural & social

Geomatics

NGOs & Civil Society (social, environmental)

Governments, Federal, Provinces, Territories & Cities

Data Cyber/infrastructures

Institutional

Framework •administration •policy • law •skills

Technical

Standards •data integration •Interoperability •Preservation •transfer

Framework Data •geodetic

•base maps

Access Network •catalogs •metadata •web services •atlas

Geospatial

Data

Infrastructure

(GDI)

Open Data (Canada)

In the background...

Platforms: GoogleMaps - mashups Flickr – geotagging MyDelicious – Folksonomies Blogging & Vlogging YouTube Facebook Twitter

Open Access SPARC CIHR

Data Management International Polar Year

Open Source Un-conferences Bar camps GOSLING gaggles

Community WiFi

Law Lawrence Lessig

Future of Ideas Code is Law

Creative Commons Canadian Internet Public

Policy Interest Clinic Michael Geist Teresa Scassa David Fewer

Access to Public Data

UK Guardian Free Our Data Campaign

US Data.gov

Open Data Definitions (sample)

1992 - UNCED – Agenda 21 Chapter 40, Information for Decision Making

2005 - Open Knowledge Foundation (OKNF) - 11 Principles (Licence specific)

2007 - US Open Government Working Group - 8 principles of Open Government Data

GEOSS - Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems

Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

Panton Principles for Open Data in Science

Open Economics Principles

Ontario Information Privacy Commissioner - 7 Principles

Sunlight Foundation - 10 Principles for Opening Up Government Information

US Association of Computing Machinery (USACM) – Recommendations on Open Government

American Library Association (ALA) – Access to Government Information Principles

Open Congress - Open Data and Open Database Creation Principles

W3C - Publishing Open Government Data

Tim Berners-Lee 5 Star of Open Data

OECD, Recommendations on Public Sector Information

OECD, Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding

Most Popular Open Data Defs.

1. Access

2. Redistribution

3. Reuse

4. Absence of Technological Restriction

5. Attribution

6. Integrity

7. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

8. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

9. Distribution of License

10. License Must Not Be Specific to a Package

11. License Must Not Restrict the Distribution of Other Works

★ make your stuff available on the Web

(whatever format) under an open license

★★ make it available as structured data (e.g.,

Excel instead of image scan of a table)

★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV

instead of Excel)

★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that

people can point at your stuff

★★★★★ link your data to other data to

provide context

Tim Berners-Lee, 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data

Cities take the lead in Canada

G4 + 1

Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver + Montreal

Open Data Cities

1. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot

2. City of Brandon (MB)

3. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot

4. City of Calgary (AB)

5. City of Edmonton (AB)

6. City of Fredericton (NB)

7. Portail dedonnées ouvertes de la ville de

Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led

8. County of Grande Prairie (AB)

9. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)

10. City of Hamilton Open and Accessible Data (ON),

City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data

Hamilton – Citizen Led ***NEW

11. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led

12. City of Kelowna Open Data Catalog (BC) ***NEW

13. City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen

Led

14. Township of Langley (BC)

15. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)

16. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)

17. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC),

Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led

18. City of Nanaimo (BC)

19. City of Niagara Falls (ON)

20. Region of Niagara (ON)

21. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)

22. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb

23. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group –

OpenData Ottawa; Apps

24. Region of Peel (ON)

25. City of Prince George (BC)

26. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale

Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec

27. City of Red Deer, Alberta

28. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site

29. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal

30. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog

31. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group

32. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki

33. City of Victoria (BC)

34. Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).

35. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo –

Citizen Led,

36. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog

Open Data Provinces

1. Data BC

2. Alberta Open Data government portal

3. Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led

4. Ontario Open Data

5. Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du Québec,

Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led

Federal Open Data

Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada

Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government Resolutions

OpenData.gc.ca

Research Data Canada

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data

Citizen Engagement

http://opennorth.ca/ Budget Plateau

http://budgetplateau.com/

Citizen Recreation

http://patinermontreal.ca/rinks/74-saint-simon-apotre

http://montrealouvert.net/a-propos/

Accountability

http://mamairie.ca/

http://represent.opennorth.ca/

Public Health

http://resto-net.ca/en

Chief Medical Officer of Health

http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/

Accessibility

Catherine Roy: ecrire@catherine-roy.net http://montrealaccessible.ca/

Transparency

Les appels d’offres et certain contrats octroyés de la Ville de Montréal et la province du Québec (version détaillée ici)

Le registre des entreprises du Canada

Les dons au partis politiques du Canada

Les dons aux partis politiques du Québec

Le registre des lobbyistes du gouvernment fédéral(aussi registre et journal)

Licenses restreintes dans l'industrie de la construction

Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Laval depuis 2007

Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Montréal depuis 2006

Hackathons

http://www.rhok.org/

http://montrealouvert.net/2011/11/23/compte-rendu-du-3e-

hackathon-montreal-ouvert/?lang=en

http://www.livinglabmontreal.org/TranspoCampMTL

Entrepreneurs

All 10,000 public and private foundations.

Exhaustive list of federal and provincial funding programs specifically for non-profits (over 700).

Corporate funders (500 and growing).

Transportation Planning

Au niveau municipal, les données sont accessibles indirectement sur le site de la ville de Montréal. En d'autres termes, ces données n'ont pas été prévues pour être utilisées de manière directe mais sont affichées sur une carte dans la section Info-Travaux. Au niveau provinciale, les données viennent du Ministère des transports du Québec et de son service Québec 511. Là aussi le MTQ se démarque de ses homologues canadiens en étant a priori le premier à proposer des données GPS pour la localisation des chantiers.

Advocacy

http://www.opendatabc.ca/index.html

http://opennorth.ca/

Data Negotiation

http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php

Citizen Science

http://waterenvironmentalhub.ca/

Environment

http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/

http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/court-victory-forces-canada-to-report-pollution-data-for-mines

Funding

http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-fra.html

Open by Design

http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx

Programmable City

Analytical Framework

Translation: City into code Transduction: Code reshapes city

Understanding the city (Knowledge)

P 1: How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens?

P 5: How does software drive public policy development and implementation?

Managing the city (Governance)

P 2: How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?

P 6: How is software used to regulate and govern city life?

Working in the city (Production)

P 3: How is the geography and political economy of software production organised?

P 7: How does software alter the forma and nature of work?

Living in the city (Social Politics)

P 4: How is software discursively produced and legitimated by vested interests?

P 8: How does software transform the spatiality and spatial behaviour of individuals?

Analytical framework of the SOFTCITY project Source: NIRSA Programmable City Project Post Doctoral Application Document

Kitchin’s Assemblages

• Systems of thought

• Governmentalities

• Political economy

• Forms of knowledge

• Practices

• Subjectivities

• Materialities/Infrastructures

• Organisations and institutions

• Places

• Marketplaces

Information Requirements

Instantiations – smartcities (IBM), sustainable connected cities (INTEL), government, community based, data analytics, big data, open data

Infrastructures – portals, metadata catalogs, standards, formats, requirements, architecture, APIS, data (materialities)

Policies/Laws – licenses, regulation, guidelines, agreements, contracts, privacy, access, IPR (political economy)

People – hactivists / public servants /researchers / company employeers / communities / data users / data producers / data brokers / app developers / entrepreneurs / curators /consultants / politician / coder, prosumer, citizen scientists (subjectivities)

Activities – hackathons, conferences, g 2 b, data users, sales, apps development, evidence informed decision making, planning, advocacy, collective data gathering/OSM, sensing, surveillance (Practices)

Places – organization (ngos, gov. Office, etc.), public space (cafe), hubs (t-cube), storage, lists, blogs, websites, groups, virtual - hangouts/skype, bulletin boards/software/calendars

Incentive structures – profit, democratic deliberation, MIS, notoriety-market, citizen science/VGI/crowd, data analytics, social need/desire/affect, obligation, creativity, propaganda, amusement, team, social expectations? (Subjectivities / marketplace)

Data – types, forms, controls, use, access, communities, users, classifications, standards, institutions, preservation/lifecycle, quality, medium

Open Data in Ireland