5. Generations Share
Differently
• 1930-50’s era generation
– Focus on society
– Friendships are forged through adversity
• 1960-70’s era generation
– Focus on community
– Friendships forged through identification with a cause
• 1980-90’s era generation
– Focus on the individual
– Friendships forged through individual goal accomplishment
• 2000’s era generation
– Focus on common interests
– Friendships are created or thrive virtually…
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6. Trust and Reciprocity
• Trust can be built on
• Personal experience
• “I know you”
• Shared experience
• “We both worked on the
same project”
• Transfer of trust
• “We know the same person
who trusts us”
• Shared values
• “We agree to operate by the
same rules”
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11. Defining the Competitive Edge
• Historically, innovation and breakthrough ideas and
technologies occur at the edges and boundaries of
networks
• Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions describes such radical innovation as a
paradigm shift
– Astronomy: Ptolemy to Copernicus
– Biology: Creation to Darwinian evolution
– Politics: English monarchy to Magna Carta
• Where will your innovation occur?
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24. Our Modes of Communication
Keep Changing
• YouTube is now second largest
search engine in the world
• 1.5 million pieces of content
shared daily on Facebook
• 250 million visitors each month
to YouTube and Facebook
• Mobile devices will be world’s
primary connection tool to the
Internet in 2020
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25. Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes
accountability
• Participation allows
people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages
cooperation within
government and with
industry
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26. Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data
– from many places and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and citizens
2. Connect the community
– in finding solutions to allow collaboration
through social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure
– built on standards
4. Encourage technology developers
– to create apps, maps, and visualizations
of data that empower people’s choices
“A Strategy for American
5. Gather more data Innovation” published
– and connect more people September 2009
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27. Data.gov
• Provides instant access
to over 450,000
datasets in easy to use
formats
• Contributions from
UN, World Bank, and
172 agencies
• Encourage
development of
innovative applications
• Drive innovation and
knowledge use across
the globe
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30. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers the tools and
raw data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov
Interest Group) and with RPI for
research in semantic web
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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31. Learn at Data.gov
• Resources for students
and teachers
• Examples of how data is
being used to develop
apps
• Lesson plans and videos
• Showcase your science
fair project that uses
government data!
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32. Open Data for the Economy
• When the Department of
Defense released satellite
data…private industry created
affordable GPS devices
• Data from NOAA (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) helped build
weather-related business
• Opportunities for private sector
are limitless
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33. Supporting Global Events
Japanese
tsunami, earthquake, and
radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf:
Deepwater Horizon
Response
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34. Open Communities
Community
Developers ✓
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Health ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education ✓
Ocean ✓
Safety ✓
Manufacturing ✓
Business ✓
Ethics ✓
Consumer
Research and Development
Human rights
+ many more…
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35. Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov
connects
innovators, indust
ry, academia, and
government at
federal, state, an
d local levels
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36. Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov
works with
groups and
challenges across
the nation to
innovate around
federal data
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37. Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform data
in understandable
ways to help people
make decisions
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38. Green Button
• Anyone can download their
home or business energy use
data from their local utility
• Then use apps to manage their
energy use to save money and
go green
• More at Energy.Data.gov
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39. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers tools and raw
data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with
– W3C: eGov Interest Group + activities,
standards, and recommendations
– RPI for research in semantic web and
open linked data
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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40. Data.gov Capabilities
• Present • Future
– Dataset Management – OGPL
• Workflow engine and • Open source platform
metadata editor built on Drupal +
• Extended Dublin Core – API key registry
– Search • API key authorization
• Keyword and filtering by • Templates and standards
basic metadata facets • Application statistics
• 6.7 billion triples
– Enhanced search
– Geo • Federated catalogs
• Search, harvesting, and map
across agencies, cities,
visualizations via
regions, and topics
www.geoplatform.gov
– Vocab.Data.gov – Vocab.Data.gov
• Vocabulary and schema • Federated ontologies
publishing engine for linked • URIs for all data
data – Standards driven
• URIs for all health data • ADMS-based metadata
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41. US Open Government Action Plan
• On 20 September 2011, President
Obama announced at the UN
General Assembly…
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source
platform
– Will allow any country to create open data
site
• Foster communities on Data.gov
– Health, energy, and law plus new
communities in education, research and
development, and public safety
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42. Open Government Platform (OGPL)
• Open source solution co-developed by
Governments of India and US
– National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov
• US Data.gov will migrate to OGPL later in
2012
• Coordinating with other open data
providers, platforms, and communities, like
W3C, World Bank, CKAN, and open source
developers world wide
• Public commits and bug tracker on Github
• Public mailing list for discussion
• Join the community!
– Source code on Github
– https://github.com/opengovtplatform
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43. The Path Ahead
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★
• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★
• Create communities to understand and apply data
• Connect and collaborate with small businesses,
industry, and academia to drive innovation
• Continue to develop OGPL with community
development
• Share with others to understand global issues
We need to securely architect our systems
for interoperability and openness from conception.
—Digital Government
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