open data briefing for alameda county data sharing committee
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A how, why and what of opendata for government staff considering adopting an opendata platform/policyTRANSCRIPT
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OpenData: What, Why & How? In Alameda County
Steve Spiker (GISP)Director of Research + Technology
Urban Strategies Council
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overview• Opendata?• Why it matters for Alameda County
• Benefits and Gains• What it looks like• Internal Benefits/Improvements
• How?• Hackathons & Community Use• InfoAlameda
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Urban Strategies Council…
A social impact organization.
Uses research, policy, collaboration,
innovation and advocacy to achieve equity
and social justice.
www.urbanstrategies.org
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Our OpenData Initiative
Supporting East Bay government agencies.
Support from Code for America &
CivicCommons.org Requested support from Nate Miley Focused on internal gov benefits and wider
community
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What is Open___?
•OpenGovernment•OpenSource•OpenStandards•OpenData…
http://opendatahandbook.org
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What is OpenData“increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by government”
• Makes all PUBLIC data available to the PUBLIC
• Next step in eGov“Opendata is rocket fuel for innovation”Former US CTO Vivek Kundra
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What is OpenData
(Inte
ropera
bili
ty)
• Complete• Primacy• Timely• Ease of Physical & Electronic Access
• Machine readable• Non-discriminatory• Open standards• Licensed openly• Permanent• Free
10 Principles:
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What is OpenData not?Never:
• Confidential information• Personal information like health records
• Violates local, state or federal laws
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Why Alameda?• Internal data sharing process•Strong, growing tech community•https://data.sfgov.org/•Code for Oakland
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Opendata Benefits• Innovation • Improved efficiency of government services • Improved effectiveness of government services • Impact measurement of policies • New knowledge from combined data sources
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Opendata Benefits•One Stop portal for all gov data!•Reduced requests for custom data•Real engagement opportunity•Supports transparent, open government
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Opendata BenefitsInteroperability!
Agency A installs new case mgmt system- with an OpenData API (connection, feed)
Agency B installs new recording system- simply pulls Agency A data through OPEN feed
encourages the use of standards, OPEN standards!
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Opendata BenefitsInteroperability- 5 years later!
Agency A wants to update a second system
Because prior system used an OPEN standard- no legacy tools or coding needed- just connect!
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What OpenData looks like
County A• Open, free parcel data• Open, free foreclosure
data• Open, free business permit
data• Open, free social service
data
County B• No public/costly parcel
data• Costly foreclosure data• No public business permit
data• Closed social service dataWhere would you…
• Consider investing in affordable housing development?
• Consider locating a new business?• Consider funding community initiatives?• Expect more robust grants from?
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How Opendata looksYelp
+ Restaurant Health Inspections?
+ Sheriff's crime reports?
Crimespotting
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Opendata in Alameda
• One place to get the right supervisorial boundaries• One place to share and access foreclosure,
property, tax data• Open county 211 data- one copy of all social
service agencies- to drive multiple websites and apps
• Massively improve access to information for new businesses, building and development projects
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Framework
Dept A Database
Dept B Database
API or extracti
on routine
Compliance Report or
Website
Analyst, Manager, Programmer
INTERNAL!
Open Data Site
InfoAlameda
Mobile Apps Engageme
nt Tools
Civic Tech
Solutions
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Implementation• Guidelines & standards for which datasets to publish• Technical requirements for publishing data• Guidelines for departments to follow in developing
open data plans• Selecting/developing generic licenses for data• Consider rules for putting data sets into new IT
contracts• Solicit comments from public before implementation
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Implementation1. Keep it simple2. Engage early and engage often3. Address common fears & misunderstandings
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Who Can Use Opendata
Code for Oakland- hackathons!
Photo Credit: Flickr user hackNY
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Hack what?
Innovate!
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InfoAlamedaCounty.org• Web based mapping platform• Data visualization• Full export of all data!• Platform for publishing research, data, maps• Built in partnership with ACPHD• Free- open to anyone• viewer.infoalamedacounty.org
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engageQuestions, concerns, excitement?
Thank you!
[email protected]@spjika @urbanstratoak @infoalameda