open data - new reality & community benefits

Open Data Matters– The New Reality and Community Benefits

Open Data Forum Oct. 30, 2012.

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

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Acknowledgements

• AMCTO and their team• Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of

Ontario• Lou Milrad, Milrad Law• Roy Wiseman, Executive Director MISA/ASIM Canada• Fellow speakers• Open Data community

Appreciation is extended to the following for their contribution and collaboration related to this event and presentations

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Overview

• Open Data – defined with context

• Current State

• Open Data Framework

• Moving forward


Open Data- the new reality

• Early in the “new era” of open data

• Gaining acceptance & momentum

• How - similar approach but …

unique to each organization


• International Right-To-Know Week Goal:

“to raise global awareness of individuals’ right to access government information

and

to promote access to information as a fundamental human right”




• Starting point • Roots in Freedom of Information legislation

- oldest identified with Sweden in 1766;- U.S.A. 1966;- Canada FOI as well as Privacy Act; 1983; - Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1990

• More recently, Open Data seen as foundational component of Open Government• focuses on citizen engagement, transparency,

accountability, collaboration and innovation


Open Government Framework 2.0

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• Core components– Open Data is

foundational

• “Open Hub”: C3

• Supporting Infrastructure

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

CommunityEngagement

Open Hub: C3

• Commons

• Communication

• Collaboration

Open Innovation

Open Data

Open Knowledge

Open Decisions

Open EconomicsSupporting Infrastructure

• Data• Financial &

Human Resources

• Policy & Standards

• TechnologyLeadership & Governance

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This is

NOT

Open Data


Defining Open Data


“A piece of content or data is open to anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

opendefinition.org/

Open Data is a foundational component for Open Government and focuses on freely making public data available in a usable format for all to re-use and add value for the benefit of citizens.


Discoverable

MachineReadable

Open Data Attributes

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UseReUse


Attribution= Minimal

Redistribute


Current State- A Global View … it’s pervasive


Over 55 participating countries

Over 189 Open Data portals


Current State- Participants at National Level



Current State- at the Provincial Level



Current State- the Ontario Municipal scene

Others in planning & implementation stages


Some public facing views of Open Data Open Data portal & data catalogue Hackathons/Codefests …. Building apps

Citizen & Community Engagement – Unconferences, Govcamps, Changecamp, Citycamps … defining the issues, identifying opportunities to improve


Open Data - the Apps Conte$t$


Open Data Benefits- a Citizen & Community perspective

• Ease of access to government information

• Economic development opportunities leading to job creation

• Reduced costs for government operations

• Enhanced eService delivery

• Apps, Apps, Apps – for citizen, business and community

• Increased opportunities for community engagement and collaboration in addressing societal needs


Open Data Benefits- a Business perspective

• Economic development opportunities

• Reduced costs to find & use government data

• Start-ups that leverage the data

• Value Added Resellers

• Innovation through new products & services


Open Data Benefits- a Government perspective

• Enhanced services to citizens and businesses

• Reduced costs via internal access and less external FOI and data requests

• Economic development

• Improved government transparency & trust

• Increased citizen engagement, collaboration with business and community groups

• Enhanced transparency and increased TRUST


• G4: Vancouver, Toronto, 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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Open Data Framework


• Governance• Where does Open Data fit? Leverage existing structure; Fit

to size of your organization; Define roles & responsibilities; Corporate-wide participation; External Stakeholders

• Principles & Policy• Sunlight Foundation’s “Ten Principles for Opening up

Government Information”; Ontario IPC “Access by Design” principles

• Policy – relate to principles & MFIPPA & review existing related policies


Open Data Framework- Governance, Principles & Policy


• Standards• Data distribution, metadata,

Linked (Semantic) open data

• Technology• ETL (Extract Transform Load), portal technology &

APIs, existing applications, Inhouse vs Cloud services


Open Data Framework- Standards & Technology

Source: W3C : “Publishing Open Government Data”

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Open Data Framework- Data, Operations & HR

• Data• Data requests & prioritization, information

inventory, suitability for release• Operations

• ETL, data lifecycles & maintenance, quality assurance & metadata, process standardization

• Human Resources• Roles & responsibilities, training, new position –

Open Data Coordinator?


Moving forward …

• General approach• Research, draft project scope & plan, senior

management support, resource it• Current state assessment & business alignment• Develop Strategic & Implementation Plan

• How? Unique to each organization & capacity to undertake


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Moving forward …Open Data Maturity Model

1 Startup

2 Data Catalog

3 Open Data Portal

4 Enterprise Open Data

5 Global Integration

Five Phases of Open Data

Evolutionary withinInfo Management Best Practices


Moving forward …NxGen Data Model

• Municipal Data Reference Model v0.1 for discussion

• Collaboration among municipalities for standard categories of municipal data

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Moving forward …Open Data NxGen

Open DataDNA

LinkedOpen Data

LinkedPersonal Data

… everything is connected to everything


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Service One (2.0)- The Service Coordinator

Service One (2.0)- The Service Coordinator

• Products & Services




Provincial

Municipal

Federal

Private & Non-Profits

Integrated Service Delivery “Engine”

Process C

Process B

Process A

Standardized Processes, Protocols and Knowledge Base

Business KnowledgeDatabase

Service Requests

Requests from MyHomePage(Facebook, Twitter, verbal)

• Open Data becomes part of Integrated Service Delivery

• Value of the strategic asset is optimized

Source: From a Social to a Service Web, 2009. www.slideshare.net/jkonga

Moving forward …- Integrated Service Delivery

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OpenData.EARTH

OpenData.EARTH

Academia, Non-Profits,

Community Groups

OpenStreetMapCommunity

Updates

External Data Linkages(e.g. World Bank)

OpenData.CA

Provincial

Municipal

Federal

Public Service Find the dataShare the data

USE the data

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

Evolved from Data Infra-structure model circa 1994

Moving forward …- Scale & Integrate Open Data

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RGIS Real-time Global

Information Sensors network

RGIS Real-time Global

Information Sensors network

Moving forward …- Open Data in a Larger Societal View

Wellbeing Ontario

Wellbeing CanadaWellbeing Earth


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Government

NGO

PrivateAcademia

Community Groups

Moving forward … together as a community

Need to leverage ourCommunity Intellectual Capitaland resources

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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

Moving forward … not just Open Gov DataOpen Science Data


• 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

Moving forward … not just Open Gov DataOpen Corporate Data

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.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html




Concluding thoughts …

• Embrace Open Government and Open Data – you’re actually already part of the way there

• It’s NOT a question of IF Open Data but … WHEN Open Data – pervasive & growing

• Be prepared – plan for it & use necessary resources to move it forward

• Open Data is beneficial to government, citizens, businesses and can enhance society at large


Why Open Data - it’s simple …

Photographs courtesy ofChatham-Kent

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

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