14 gayler open data open innovation open cloud - vienna ogd oct12b
1. Open Data Open Innovation and the Cloud
The Business Case for Open Data
http://www.microsoft.com/opengov OGD Konferenz, Wien Sep 2012
2. Open Data and
Agenda Case Studies Business Value
What can we
learn?
• Open Data
• Value of „open innovation‟ The Cloud as
• The Cloud enabler
3. “Value of 47 open data apps
Apps for Democracy initiative”
Cost to
Annual Cost of Open Data Savings by CDN Washington DC
to Gov’t of Australia Government for 47 apps
4. VanPark2010
Open Government with Commercial Data
2010 Winter
Olympics Parking App Cloud
Combines
City parking data
Commercial
parking data
http://www.vanpark2010.ca
5. Apps for Democracy
$2.3M
Value of 47 open data apps to Washington DC at a
cost of $50,000 in 30 days
www.appsfordemocracy.org
6. EveryBlock.com
“EveryBlock‟s hype „definitely faded‟, but more popular than ever” – Adrian Holovaty, Aug 2012
Neighbourhood
News and Chat Founded in 2007 16 Cities in USA
$1.1M Knight
Foundation
Grant
2009 Sold to
msnbc.com
7. Country Data Type Estimated Refs
Business Value
7
Australia GIS/Spatial €5.2Bn
4
Australia Statistics €19M
7
Denmark Energy/Construction €540M
5
England/Wales Local Geospatial €400M
7
Ireland National €83M
7
Spain National €550M
5
UK GIS/Met/Mapping €7.5Bn
7
USA Meteorological €309M
8. Australian National Data Service
„Costs and Benefits of Public Sector Data Provision‟ (2011)
Victoria
Benefit vs. Cost University Study Ratio = 5:1!*
Australia Bureau
of Statistics Data
*Ratio varies by data/sector type e.g. 5:1 < 25:1
9.
10. Open Data and the Cloud
Open Government and Open Innovation
Cloud is Open
for developers Low entry cost Drive Innovation
Build quickly
Minimal
infrastructure
Highly scalable
Data agility
*Graphic courtesy techlabs.com
http://www.microsoft.com/opengov
11. City of Medicine Hat
Open Government with the Cloud
Open Data
Catalogue Alberta, Canada Cloud
Catalogue built
in „few days‟
Minimal CAPEX
Ultra-low cost
http://data.medicinehat.ca
12. City of San Francisco
Open Data with the Cloud
311 Citizen Call
Open311 Center Cloud
Citizens can
report and track
non-emergency
incidents
http://www.heygov.com/default.aspx?MapID=SanFran311
13. systems—more services than the
city could provide if it focused on presentation development
rather than opening the data publicly through web services
14. „Business‟ Opportunity for Open Data
Open Government, Open Innovation and The Cloud
Deliver better
Enable new services at lower
innovative cost (*Ratio)
applications and Stimulate
services business and
(SLA) economic growth
Enable
Industry and developers to
Citizen consume your Enhance
Engagement open data competitiveness
15. http://austriaogd.cloudapp.net
http://govdata.eu
"How Open Data Saved Canada $3.2Bn"
"Open Data - An Engine for Innovation"
“On to the Next Chapter“
“Costs and Benefits of
Data Provision
"Economic Impact of Open Data"
"Is There A Business Case For Open Government Data?“
"Open Data and Economic Growth“
“PSI Re-Use and Related Market Developments”
18. Government of Colombia
Open Government and e-Government
Government of
Colombia Transparency Cloud
eGovernment
Insight
Accountability
http://datos.gov.co
19. data.gov.uk
Open Government with Big Data
Weather Data UK Met Office Cloud Integration
„Big Data‟
Large volume
Daily data
Hourly updates
http://data.gov.uk/metoffice-data-archive
Editor's Notes
This presentation discusses examples of how open government initiatives have enabled innovation to occur with citizens and developers worldwide.In particular, this presentation focuses on open data projects that run on the Windows Azure Cloud platform.
VanPark2010 was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.At that time, parking information was spread amongst several web sites – City and Commercial companies.There was no centralized portal for visitors to Vancouver to see where to park for Olympic venues.The City of Vancouver published location of City parking meters but no commercial parking data.Commercial companies would not publish City parking information.It took a 3rd-party developer to COMBINE the City data with the commercial parking data because he was independent.This is an example of innovation where neither the City, nor the commercial parking companies were likely to build this application (none of them had ALL the data).
In 2009, Washington DC ran an open data competition - Apps for Democracy. This competition produced 47 citizen-built apps in 30 days. DC calculated if they had to build these apps themselves, it would cost them in excess of $2.3M.
Cloud Computing provides distinct benefits for open data projects:Cloud has a very low-entry cost (near zero)Cloud is highly scalable. Very cost-effective no matter how much data you publish or how many citizens use that data.Cloud is open. You can share data using open data protocols enabling app developers to code with whatever tools they desire e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, .NETMinimal impact on your existing infrastructure. Using Cloud, it doesn’t matter how many citizens use your service – this does not affect your IT infrastructure.
This is a good example of Cloud being used for small scale open data projects. Medicine Hat is a City in Canada with a population of 63K. They built this open data portal using Cloud-based open source tools (Open Government Data Initiative – OGDI) in a ‘few days’ with no CAPEX expenditure at a monthly running cost of est. <$250/mon.
San Francisco used the Cloud to provide a citizen portal for their Open311 service.
In May 2012, the US Government published it’s digital government strategy. It makes reference to the ‘app economy’ and cited San Francisco as an example of transit services being built by citizens which provide greater value than the City itself could build. The City fuels this app economy by simply publishing the data.
Governments have an incredible opportunity to drive smart innovation and create new business and stimulate economic growth.Simply by sharing data assets to the public, the Government organization can generate considerably more value beyond the cost of providing the service.This can be done quickly and cost-effectively and in a very open way using Cloud computing.
The Government of Colombia used the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) to publish data to demonstrate to citizens of Colombia they were committed to transparency and openness in Government.
Another advantage of Cloud is that it provides an excellent platform for combining open data with Big Data at low cost.A good example of this is with UK data.gov.uk where the UK Gov open data platform uses Windows Azure to publish UK national meteorological (weather) data on an hourly basis at minimal cost.