Friday lunchtime lectures from the Open Data Institute of North Carolina. For our June 6th lecture... What is open data and why should I care? You have heard about open data. Raleigh has an open data portal, and Wake County, Durham and Durham County, North Carolina and many other municipal governments are looking into open data. We will be giving an introduction to open data and a few reasons open data is important to citizens, businesses and government.

1. Friday Lunchtime Lecture
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What is Open Data and
Why Should I Care?
Ian Henshaw
CEO
The ODI North Carolina
ihenshaw@theodinc.org
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About the Open Data Institute
The Open Data Institute is catalyzing the evolution of open
data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value.
It helps unlock supply, generates demand, creates and
disseminates data to address local and global issues.
We convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture
and mentor new ideas, and promote innovation. We enable
anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our
teams to help others through professional coaching and
mentoring.

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Open Data Defined
● Non-Proprietary Format
● Easy to Access
● Easy to Use
● Machine Readable
● Reusable Without License
● No Cost

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What is not Open Data?
● Personally Identifiable
Information (PII)
● Security Data
● Confidential Information
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Examples of Open Data
● Government Data ● Commercial Data

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Examples of Open Data
● Crowd Sourced Data

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Benefits of Open Data
● Increased Citizen Engagement
● Reduction of Municipal Costs
● Support for an Open Government Initiative
– e.g. Transparency
● Economic Development
● Talent Attraction / Retention

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Upcoming Courses
● Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series
– June 13 – Creative commons and open data
– June 20 – Are all public record requests open data?
– June 27 – The benefits of open data
● Open Data Fundamentals
– July 10, 2014
– Discount Code = ODIFriday

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ODI NC Services
Thought Leadership
Open Data Research
Open Data Training
Open Data Consulting
Open Data Program Administration
Data Set Certification
Networking

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We thank you
for your time