1. Welcome to
Open Belgium 2016

2. Hello!
Toon Vanagt
@toon
Pieter Colpaert
@pietercolpaert

3. 1. The Essentials
Guiding you through the conference day

4. Tweets
Posting about the conference on social media?
#openbelgium16
Questions to the conference on Twitter?
@openbelgium

5. We’re a community driven conference
40% attendees
= CfP speakers
21 sessions
With the
help of 15
volunteers

6. The programme
Check out your lanyard for details!
9:00 - 10:30: Plenary
11:00 - 17:00: Break-outs (+ this room)
17:00 - 17:30: Closing keynote in this room
18:00: Reception at Antwerp’s city hall*
Volunteers will walk us over there in groups of 30

7. Limited capacity in 2 break-out rooms
Limited capacity in break-out rooms:
● Scaldis
● Prentenkabinet
During first coffee: claim a sticker for these break-out sessions
Without sticker, no entrance in a workshop
Next to Prentenkabinet:
● Free wifi zone + powerplugs
● Meeting/network room

8. Introducing the Open Currency
Donate Open Currency coins to working groups:
● Each speaker gets 10 ‘open currency’ coins.
● Attendees can buy ‘open currency’ coins
● Each coin represents 1 euro, which you can donate to our
different working groups:
○ Creative Commons Belgium
○ Wikimedia Belgium
○ OpenStreetMap Belgium
○ Open Tourism
○ Open Access Belgium
○ Open Transport (iRail)

9. Feeling lost? Reach out to a volunteer
This shirt
This lanyard

10. A big thank you to our platinum partners

11. And to all our other partners

12. 2. State of Open
Where are we today?

13. “
Belgian Federal open data policy is good stuff!
- Andrew Stott (@DirDigEng)
United Kingdom Government's first
Director of Transparency & Digital Engagement.

14. The degree of openness is in the eye of the beholder

15. The degree of openness is in the eye of the beholder
I represent the interests of the owner of the
Intellectual Property related to the depiction of
this “Half-Full/Empty”-concept and if you do not
take down this material immediately then we
will commence legal action against you for
infringement of our client's rights.
©Glass Half-Full/Empty

16. “Being right too soon” is often legally challenging...

17. Story that dates back to 2010
2010: Yeri Tiete received a Cease & Desist from
NMBS/SNCB
2012: Open Knowledge Belgium was founded to
defend rights and shield personal liability too
2015: Yeri hired by Fedict to help startups reuse
Open Data
2016: NMBS/SNCB admits to have been on the
‘wrong side’ of history

18. Data exhaust: “All of the related data generated by
digital activities.”
● Consists of virtual trails left behind,
similar to the exhaust from a vehicle, a
byproduct that reveals the trail it has
taken.
● Tells good stories about habits and
preferences.
● The reuse of open data sets often
generates more insights and even
unexpected policy advice...

19. E.g., iRail API usage statistics

20. Status of the EU PSI-legislation adoption in Belgium
● The new European Directive on the re-
use of public sector information (PSI)
had to be adopted by all EU member
states prior to July 2015…
● Belgium is late, but almost there too…
● Setting standard with ‘open by default’
policy!

21. Status of the EU PSI-legislation adoption in Belgium
Discussed in
government
Discussed in
parliament
Voted in
parliament
Belgium V V ?
Flanders V V 3/6/2015
Wallonia V V ?
Brussels V ? ?

22. Open Knowledge was recognised as grassroot
umbrella organisation for open data legislation
Grassroot input from & feedback
by Open Knowledge Belgium
Discussed in
government
Discussed in
parliament
Voted in
parliament
Belgium V V V ?
Flanders V V V 30/6/2015
Wallonia V V V ?
Brussels V V ? ?

23. Annual effort tracking state of Open Data
Source: http://index.okfn.org/

24. 43% open
Today, Belgium is considered to be

25. 35thout of 122 countries
This ranks Belgium

26. 2015: #35
2014: #53
2013: #56
Trend looks good

27. But our big neighbors are ahead..
Source: http://index.okfn.org/

28. Government Spending (ranking 8th)
Government Budget (ranking 25th)
Source: https://openspending.org/

29. National Map: 60%
High score thanks to
availability and quality
Yet it is far from open →

30. Biggest conference on Open Street Map comes to
Brussels this Fall

31. Weather Forecast 40%
Information available at meteo.be
But…
KMI/IRM is not included within PSI directive and
actively sells this data for reuse

32. Land ownership (ranked 31st)
Source: kadaster.nl
Source: realo.be

33. Legislation (ranking 39th)
Source: OpenLaws.eu
Source: Lex.be
March 8 2016 in Brussels: Big Open
Legal Data Conference (BOLD)

34. Company Register (ranking 58th)
Source: https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbo-open-data/login?lang=en
Low score due to registration
requirement to: “secure the
data reception” →

35. 3. Where are those datasets?
Where do I find those open data pearls to fill my “holy grail”?

37. Location Data portal availability URL
Europe V https://open-data.europa.eu/
Belgium V http://data.gov.be/
Flanders V http://opendata.vlaanderen.be/
Wallonia V http://opendata.digitalwallonia.be/
Brussels
Will be launched on
3/3/2016!
Data portals are the new black

38. 4. Where’s the reuse?

39. Costs Benefits

40. Panel discussion

41. Ingrid Willems
Founder of DataScouts
If anyone is going to make our cities and
things smarter… It’s her.
@immwillems

42. Christine Copers
Innovation Manager Fedict
Executes the Federal Open Data Strategy
@ChristineCopers

43. Noël Van Herreweghe
Open Data manager at
Information Flanders
If Open Data would be president in
Flanders, Noël would be the first lady
@opendataforum_

44. Open Data Panel: stimulating reuse in Belgium
@opendataforum_@christinecopers@immwillems

45. Open Summer of code 2016
http://summerofcode.be

46. #openbelgium15
#opentourism
A community supporting Digital Creativity in Tourism

47. From ad-hoc activity to a solid community
Our mission is to “support digital creativity concerning
tourism" and to host the “Open Standard for Tourism”
Vocabulary, which is a reusable Ontology for describing
tourism data.
Join the Community
Meeting, March 5,
2016 Mechelen

48. Join our community! tourism.openknowledge.be

49. Thanks!
You can reach us at @toon & @pietercolpaert
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