Open Data talk given at Hack Integration event
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The document discusses open data and how making data openly available and usable can empower people and help solve real problems. It notes that open data only becomes open knowledge when it is useful, understandable, and able to help people. The document also outlines some challenges around open data and potential solutions, such as releasing parliamentary data and APIs to make data more accessible and usable.
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- 1. Open data - useful, usable and used Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen, 7. October 2016
- 2. http://dk.okfn.org/ Part of Open Knowledge, a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness and technology. We envision a world where: • knowledge creates power for the many, not the few. • data frees us to make informed choices about how we live, what we buy and who gets our vote. • information and insights are accessible – and apparent – to everyone. Open Knowledge Danmark
- 3. Key points • Data are the lifeblood of decision-making • Data are power(ful) • Data needs to be open so that power can be held to account, inequality challenged, and inefficiencies exposed •
- 9. Political data • The release of data itself can be political motivated • The way data are released can be political motivated • Content • Dataformat • Accessibility • License • Timing • Context • Presentations of data can be (and are most often) political motivated
- 11. Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it’s useful, usable and used - not just that some data is open and can be freely used, but that it is useful – accessible, understandable, meaningful, and able to help someone solve a real problem. So open knowledge is empowering – it helps us effect, change and improve the world.
- 12. How to turn data into knowledge - how to use data to solve a real problem ?
- 13. How we work with data… Release of API for the Danish Parliament #PanamaPapers #OpenDataDay 2016 Open electoral data
- 16. Challenges • Bureaucracy • Language • Employment • Education • Network • Fulfilling individual potential • Mutual recognition •
- 17. Solutions
Editor's Notes
- In OK we state that “Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it’s useful, usable and used.” Dataand open data in itself does not make a change. We need make use of it, we need to turn it into actual solutions.
- http://dk.okfn.org/ AboutOpen Knowledge International https://okfn.org/about/ AboutOpen Knowledge Denmark http://dk.okfn.org/om-os/ (English in the end of the page)
- Most people don’t think much of data in their everydaylife. It’s there but it’s mostly invisible to us. Data helps shape ourworldview (although it’s clearly not the only thing) as a reference to an objective truth/”facts”. To be able to control, understand and use data gives you power. Power to challenge established truths ”Data are the lifeblood of decision-making” quotefromhttp://www.undatarevolution.org/ But how do we use data to make a change?
- Exampleof data collecting. A group of journalists – not an governmental organization - started to register the death of refugees and migrants fleeing to Europe. These numbers are important to tell the story, to raise awareness, to get a grasp of the scale. If we do not measure it did not happen? Clearly human lives matter - we should keep track. In Denmark we have exact figures for the number of red cars owned by women aged 25. http://www.themigrantsfiles.com/
- Later this project ideawas taken over by IMO – an intergovernmental organization. http://missingmigrants.iom.int/
- Thisfigure that are monitored closely with daily updates. Number of asylum seekers coming to Denmark by country of origin. http://uibm.dk/tal-og-statistik/tal-og-statistik-om-indrejse-og-ophold
- Two examples of discussion over what data should be collected in the first place. Swedish police registerRomani people for the use of policeinvestegation Debate on how to keep track different salaries based on gender Data/numbers are not neutral
- Presentationused for comparing primary schools. Why is it important to know the number of pupils with foreign background in order to chooseshool? https://www.uddannelsesstatistik.dk/grundskolen/overblik?smarturl404=true
- Whathappenstothosewhogetrefusedasylum? Content: include gender in statistics on salaries, connect illnessto religious belief or injuries to sport Dataformat: pdf files that can’t be easilyscrapred Accessibility: hidden on webpage, hiddenfrom search, not properly linked, not machine-readable License: limit reused, keep control Timing: Delay of data releases. Increase in the level of students before limiting access to education Context: present increase in public expensesto education without increase in number of students
- Datashould be open. What does that mean?
- Pictures from: #panamaPapers dataworkshop http://dk.okfn.org/2016/05/22/abenhed-mod-skatteundragelse/ #OpenDataDay 2015 http://dk.okfn.org/2015/03/08/velbesogt-open-data-day-i-kobenhavn/ Dataworkshop on Folketingets new API http://dk.okfn.org/2014/09/25/folketingets-data-skal-vaere-abne-og-bruges/
- Can we go from data to solution?
- Bureaucracy - gamification Language –youtube-videos Employment –nydansker Education - Network – mentors, local communities Fulfillingindividualpotential –highlightingdiversity Mutual recognition - understanding