Data for everyone

Using Open Data to unlock Germany’s

innovative potential

Attending an Open Data Conference in Germany…

The mysterious developer…

Structured Machine-readable

Not related to personal data

What is Open Data?

Transparency

What’s the point of it?

Economic potential

“... more than $3 trillion in global economic value annually.”

“...€43.1 billion in economic value annually for Germany.”

What’s the point of it?

Over 40 Open Data portals in Germany

40%

Open Data Portal Without Open Data Portal

Of the cities with more than 100k citizens…

What is Open Data NOT?!?

The developer’s workflow…

Guess content

Find file: “Public transp. network cat. Bus_UPDATED_122015”

Download file

Open it as excel

Find strange column titles such as “ID_Str” or “Abkr._ref”

Return to download meta data pdf

Realize it contains the wrong data

Register & outline reason

Be lucky & find CSV

Frustration on both sides…

What am I doing here??

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Open Data remains something “abstract”

…to unlock the innovative potential?

What can we do...

Rethink process within governments…

One person responsible for Open Data…

What updating data should be like…

Using datasets internally…

Only developers being addressed…

Breakthroughs happen by accident…

Data is only truly open when

ANYONE can use it

Hard work for developers…

Making it as

easy as possible

to re-use data

Data to go

Dataset APIs are the basis for innovation

What is the impact?

Real-time data in Rennes

data.explore.star.fr

Ouestmonbus.com

Accessible.net

misspipiapp.com

collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr

Iquantny.tumblr.com

Opendata.paris.fr

Anyone can contribute to the discussion.

Thank you.Christina Schönfeld@christinafeld