Business side of Open DataCookbook to add flavour & economic value to our data society

Software is eating the world ?

Data is eating the world !

Toon Vanagt - @ToonChairman Open Knowledge Belgium (OKB)

Co-founder data.be

New PSI-directivewill open a lot more governmental data sets in EU

Belgium is late, but almost there too…with an ‘open by default’ policy!

Belgium

The new European Directive on the re-use of public sector information had to be adopted by all EU member states prior to July 2015…

New European directive

A lot of extra data sets are expected to open soon economical, demographics, labour statistics, budgets & actuals, transport data, legal info…

Extra data sets

Data Value Chain

Open data is any content or info that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute — without any legal, technological or social restriction

(transport time tables, company info, weather data, real estate ledgers,

case law publications..)

Public Data

Publically accessible data from websites, social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Swarm/Foursquare

), blogs (Drupal, WP), news feeds, product feeds (ecommerce) and

more. Re-use is often not formalisedand implicit…

Closed Data

Authentication/secured access is required to use proprietary corporate

data (marketing campaigns, customers, suppliers, accounting,

transactions, projects) personal data (residence, healthcare, genes, sexual

orientation, religion, birth date) or device data (IoT, sensors)

Unlock value in data economy

2 data flow types:

Create value by mashing up data sets

Open Data + Public Data + Closed Data= holy data grail

• Static vs Dynamic• Structured vs Unstructured

Move up the value chainReverse trend of declining prices with big (open) data

Move up the information ladder by asking users for input

Combine, correlate and improve quality of data sets

Bring new value from raw (open) data sets

Visualise in new ways

Mine deeper to dig out “insights” (not just basic statistics)

Any company can now run its “own Google”

Add value by features

NotificationsMobile App

Real time

Visualisations

Analytics

Web Data Integration Historic Data & Trends

Enriched/Linked Data

Social Graph

Transport data revolutionmoving from closed to public to open

Open

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Transport data revolutionmoving from closed to public to open

Open

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Transport data revolutionmoving from closed to public to open

https://hello.irail.be/gtfs/

Open

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Public

GTFS - General Transit Feed Specificationcommon format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information

Open

https://hello.irail.be/gtfs/

http://tracker.geops.ch/

Business data

Open

Closed

Public

Low hanging fruit

Business dataAnnual account summary

Graphics say more than a thousand numbers

Business dataAdd closed data: bank statement transactions to feed ‘enriched’ customer listings & risk analyzers

Customer opt-infor integration & enrichment

Business dataNotify on changes & find similar prospects based on company age, location, size and industry

Notify on changes in customer data

Business dataMake your dashboards interactive

Add easy analytics

from donuts to maps

Climate change in Belgium?1833-2014: Seasonal pattern form average monthly temperatures / © @maartenzam

Open

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Real Estate

Open

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Public

Web + Mobile

Real Estate websites

Knowledge from the crowd

Public

Leverage on feedback loop from users

One more thing: Lex.be

Open

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Public

Soft launch on 12/1/2016 looking for legal pros for feedback

• PSI compliance is overdue…• Privacy…legal conflicts • SaaS product/market fit• API: adoption takes time• Think network with linked data• Missing feedback loops to authentic data

set owner• From closed to public to open data • Open data is not limited to governments…

Challenges

Belgium’s Open Knowledge rankingadvanced from #53 (2014) to #35 (2015)!

Business side of Open DataCookbook to add flavour & economic value to our data society

Hungry for more?

Reach out or open your own data!

Toon Vanagt - @ToonChairman Open Knowledge Belgium (OKB)

Co-founder data.be & lex.be