Our natural environment has much to do with personal and community well-being. Open Data is introduced as an opportunity to create awareness and make better use of natural heritage/ecosystem/environmental data. The need to enhance collaboration and moving forward to create a "Nature Ecosystem Wellness Index" is proposed.
Beyond Boundaries: Leveraging No-Code Solutions for Industry Innovation
Open Data - for Conservation & Community Good
1. Open Data
- for Conservation & Community Good
Presented by
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
2. Housekeeping
• You have homework!
Review this presentation on
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• If tweeting; I’m @jkonga consider following hashtags:
#latornell11 #opendata #opengov #openscience
#conservation #collaboration #innovation
• 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
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4. A Citizens Driven Priority View
Source: Suzanne Long from Toronto ChangeCamp 2009
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Data is essential… irrespective of domain!
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5. Context: Open Government Framework
Framework Core Components
Stakeholder
Open Data Collaboration Innovation
Engagement
Framework Supporting Infrastructure
• Leadership & Data
Governance Human & Financial
• Policy & Standards Resources
• Technology
Adapted from Municipal Open Government Framework, June 2011
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6. Open Data
- Community Driven Principles (circa 2010)
10 Principles for Opening Up Government Information
http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/
Completeness Machine readability
Primacy Non- discrimination
Timeliness
Use of commonly owned
standards
Ease of Physical and
Electronic Access Licensing
Permanence Usage costs
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7. Open Government Data Current State
- Where in the World
http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
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8. Open Government Data Current State
- From Local to Global
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9. Open Data Value Proposition
- Analytics for Community Improvements
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10. 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
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11. Open Data Value Proposition
- Re-Use of Data via Applications
Community Driven and Supplied Solutions
http://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html
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12. Open Data Value Proposition
- Visualization for Education
• Hans Rosling’s
Gapminder App
• Raw data input
from simple
table
• Animation to
simplify
understanding
of temporal
data
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13. Open Data Value Proposition
- Visualization + Data
• Dynamic
visualization
based on
neighbourhoods
• User control
over well-being
indicators &
weighting
• Option to
download data
for re-use !
• New features on
the way
Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Research
http://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/
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14. Open Data – It’s not Just Government Data
International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology
2012 Conference: “Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet"
Principles
1. 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 education
4. 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
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15. Open Scientific Data
• 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
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16. Open Corporate Data
“The 147 Companies That Control Everything”
Forbes Article, October 22, 2011.
• OpenCorporates is a recent
initiative
• Aims: URL for every company in
the world & relating government
data to companies
• How about a “Good” Corporate
Source: The New Scientist; (Image: PLoS One) Citizen Index …. Occupy Wall Street
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-
revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html (#OWS) would be interested
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17. Issues, Challenges, Metrics
• Key issues via David
Climate Change
Suzuki Foundation
• With our natural and
built systems –
everything is
Freshwater Health Oceans connected to
everything
• How do we measure
our overall health or
Wildlife and Habitat wellbeing?
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18. Measuring our Wellbeing
- Canadian Index of Wellness(CIW)
Indicators Circa 2001 Composite Index
What’s wrong with this picture?
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/CompositeIndex.html
http://ciw.ca/reports/en/History/Indicators_of_Quality_of_Life_in_Canada.sflb.pdf
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19. 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?
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/DomainsOfWellbeing/Environment.html
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20. 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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21. 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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22. Moving Forward …
“All of us are smarter than one of us”
Collaborate Now
“There are more knowledgeable people
outside your organization than inside”
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23. 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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24. Moving forward
- leverage the “Cloud”
Public Municipal Service
Find the data
Provincial Federal Share the data
External
OpenData.
Academia, Non-
Data Linkages OpenData.CA Profits, Commu
nity Groups
EARTH
(e.g. World Bank)
OpenStreetMap
Community
Updates
USE
the data
Source: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010 www.slideshare.net/jkonga
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25. Moving forward
- leverage what already Exists
Enhanced coordination & data integration will benefit the community
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26. Moving forward
- leverage Resources already in Place
Enhanced coordination & resource sharing will benefit the community
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27. Moving forward
– Create Collaborative teams
• 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
http://www.slideshare.net/jkonga/open-data-current-state-next-gen
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28. 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
http://www.onecosystemservices.ca • communications
• creating awareness about the
value of nature
• impact on personal and
community wellbeing
• Strategy for opening up
“ecosystem”/natural heritage data
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29. Moving forward
… as an Inclusive Community
Need to leverage our
Community Intellectual Capital
and resources Government
Citizens &
Community NGO
Groups
Academia Private
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30. Concluding thoughts …. 1
• Common Baseline :
Develop a local -> Provincial -> National -> Global
Nature Ecosystem Wellbeing (NEW) index
Global
Common Parameters
National
Wellbeing Provincial
Local
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31. Concluding thoughts …. 2
• Embrace Open Data – Make it Policy
Open Data + Integrated Community Analyses =
Integrated
Enhanced
Decision
Community
Making
Analyses
& Policy
Development
(& MUCH more)
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32. Concluding thoughts …. 3
• Collaboration is an Imperative
Need to optimize our resources –
physical, financial and intellectual capital
Source: Jury Konga, “Collaboration 2.0
- Leveraging Today’s Technology for Tomorrow’s Challenges”
Let’s support this new collaborative group
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33. Concluding thoughts …. 4
• Just Do It!
Recycling a mantra from
eGovernment in the 2000’s ….
“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” Mother Nature
and Collaborate Large needs our help
- and we need her!
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34. Thank You
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
jkonga@sympatico.ca
Twitter @jkonga
Skype jury.konga
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