Open Data- for Conservation & Community Good

Presented byJury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

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• Acknowledgements …. big thank you to the following folks for feedback- Don Pearson and Chris Wilkinson, Conservation Ontario- Tracey Lauriault, Researcher/PhD Candidate, Carleton University- Harvey Low, City of Toronto- Tracey Steele, Town of Richmond Hill- Michelle Molnar, David Suzuki Foundation- Herb Lainchbury, Open Data BC

Housekeeping

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Visualizing the Latornell 2011 Program

This CONCERNS me!

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A Citizens Driven Priority View

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Source: Suzanne Long from Toronto ChangeCamp 2009

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Context: Open Government Framework

• Leadership & Governance

• Policy & Standards• Technology

StakeholderEngagement Open Data Collaboration Innovation

Framework Core Components

Framework Supporting Infrastructure

Data Human & Financial

Resources

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Open Data- Community Driven Principles (circa 2010)

Completeness

Primacy

Timeliness

Ease of Physical and Electronic Access

Permanence6

10 Principles for Opening Up Government Informationhttp://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/

Machine readability

Non- discrimination

Use of commonly owned standards

Licensing

Usage costs

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Open Government Data Current State- Where in the World

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http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/

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Open Government Data Current State- From Local to Global

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Open Data Value Proposition- Analytics for Community Improvements

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Open Data Value Proposition- Re-Use of Data via Applications

• BC Apps 4 Climate Action

• App Winner: Waterly• Tracks recent rainfall

near your home • Notifies by email when

you don't need to water your lawn

• No more need to water just because it is your watering day

• Benefits citizens, the community and mother nature

Created by http://www.dynamic-solutions.com/ Jury KongaOpen by Design TM

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Open Data Value Proposition- Re-Use of Data via Applications

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Community Driven and Supplied Solutionshttp://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html

• Hans Rosling’s Gapminder App

• Raw data input from simple table

• Animation to simplify understanding of temporal data

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Open Data Value Proposition- Visualization for Education

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• Dynamic visualization based on neighbourhoods

• User control over well-being indicators & weighting

• Option to download data for re-use !

• New features on the way

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Open Data Value Proposition- Visualization + Data

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Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Researchhttp://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/

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Principles1. Science is an investment in the public interest. 2. Scientific advances rely on full and open access to data. 3. A market model for access to data is unsuitable for research and education4. Publication of data is essential to scientific research and the dissemination of knowledge. 5. The interests of database owners must be balanced with society's need for open exchange of ideas. 6. Legislators should take into account the impact intellectual property laws may have on research and education. http://www.codata.org/resources/databases/data_access/principles.html

International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology

2012 Conference: “Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet"

Open Data – It’s not Just Government Data

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• Informal defn: “Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process.”

• Fundamental Goals – July 28, 2009. Transparency in experimental methodology, observation and collection of data Public availability and reusability of scientific data Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration

• Opportunity for collaboration and benefits to society are HUGE

Open Scientific Data

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• OpenCorporates is a recent initiative

• Aims: URL for every company in the world & relating government data to companies

• How about a “Good” Corporate Citizen Index …. Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) would be interested

Open Corporate Data

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Source: The New Scientist; (Image: PLoS One)http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

“The 147 Companies That Control Everything”Forbes Article, October 22, 2011.

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Issues, Challenges, Metrics

• Key issues via David Suzuki Foundation

• With our natural and built systems – everything is connected to everything

• How do we measure our overall health or wellbeing?

Climate Change

Oceans

Wildlife and Habitat

Freshwater

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Health

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http://ciw.ca/reports/en/History/Indicators_of_Quality_of_Life_in_Canada.sflb.pdf

http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/CompositeIndex.html

Measuring our Wellbeing- Canadian Index of Wellness(CIW)

Indicators Circa 2001 Composite Index

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Measuring our Environmental Wellbeing

• Parameters are from Canadian Index of Wellbeing

• Overarching: Air, Land and Water – are there parameters missing?

• How well are we set up to collaborate on this?

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http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/DomainsOfWellbeing/Environment.html

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Well Being Planet Earth- Wellbeing Conservation

• What should the goals be?

• What should we measure?

• How do we make it happen – government? NGO’s, citizens and other stakeholders?

• How do we ensure it’s sustainable?

• How do we ensure it feeds into the public and private sector policy development realm?

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Measuring Community Wellbeing

• Wellbeing Toronto launched 2011

• Variety of variables contributing to wellbeing

• Empowers citizens to rank importance of factors in their community wellbeing

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Moving Forward …

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Collaborate Now

“All of us are smarter than one of us”

“There are more knowledgeable people outside your organization than inside”

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Moving Forward …- what’s our Current State

• In local government, there is a “hard” infrastructure deficit in Canada of $123B (2007) & requires attention

• What’s Canada’s Natural Heritage/Ecosystem deficit?- “Harder to peg” … need agreed to standards

• Need to open data, standardize process and analyse the data to derive a current state assessment at local, provincial, national and global scales -> then set goals & action plan to address the deficit

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OpenData.EARTH

OpenData.EARTH

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Academia, Non-Profits,

Community Groups

OpenStreetMapCommunity

Updates

External Data Linkages(e.g. World Bank)

OpenData.CA

Provincial

Municipal

Federal

Public Service

Source: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010 www.slideshare.net/jkonga

Moving forward- leverage the “Cloud”

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Find the dataShare the data

USE the data

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Moving forward- leverage what already Exists

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Enhanced coordination & data integration will benefit the community

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Moving forward- leverage Resources already in Place

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Enhanced coordination & resource sharing will benefit the community

• G4: Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton & Ottawa• ODF Project: August – December 2010.• ODF Components

– Governance– Principles & Policy– Standards– Technology– Data, Operations

& Human Resources– Open Data Portal– Future Roadmap

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Moving forward – Create Collaborative teams

http://www.slideshare.net/jkonga/open-data-current-state-next-gen

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Moving forward – Create Collaborative teams

• A very recent opportunity unfolded at the pre- Latornell ONES workshop

• Mission: “to advance research and the exchange of knowledge and information related to ecosystem services ..”

• Initial focus could be on• communications• creating awareness about the value

of nature• impact on personal and community

wellbeing• Strategy for opening up

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http://www.onecosystemservices.ca

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Government

NGO

PrivateAcademia

Citizens & Community

Groups

Moving forward … as an Inclusive Community

Need to leverage ourCommunity Intellectual Capitaland resources

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Concluding thoughts …. 1

• Common Baseline : Develop a local -> Provincial -> National -> Global Nature Ecosystem Wellbeing (NEW) index

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Common ParametersGlobal

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Concluding thoughts …. 2

• Embrace Open Data – Make it PolicyOpen Data + Integrated Community Analyses =

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Analyses

Community

Integrated Enhanced Decision Making

& Policy

Development(& MUCH more)

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Concluding thoughts …. 3• Collaboration is an Imperative

Need to optimize our resources – physical, financial and intellectual capital

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Let’s support this new collaborative groupSource: Jury Konga, “Collaboration 2.0- Leveraging Today’s Technology for Tomorrow’s Challenges”

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Concluding thoughts …. 4

• Just Do It!Recycling a mantra from eGovernment in the 2000’s ….

“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” and Collaborate Large

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Mother Nature needs our help

- and we need her!

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

jkonga@sympatico.caTwitter @jkongaSkype jury.konga

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