Creative Commons licenses promote open data by allowing data to be openly accessible, reusable and remixable. Open data benefits include increased innovation, transparency and citizen participation. To make data open, one should choose a dataset, attach an open license, present it in a preferred format and make it discoverable. Creative Commons licenses determine whether data can be used commercially and whether derivatives can be created. The presentation encouraged attendees to begin opening demographic and infrastructure related datasets and provided examples of open data projects and sources.

1. How Creative Commons
promotes
Open Data
Open Data Day 2017 Lagos
University of Lagos
July 4th, 2017

2. What is Data?

3. What is Data?
• To the computer science student? 1101010101010101
• To a lecturer? Amount of students in a class, no of students that passed a course
• A Mechanic? Number of cars in a local government
• A slay queen? Number of boutiques in the locality

4. What is Data?

5. What is Data?

6. What is Data?

7. What is Data?

8. What is

9. Open Data is:
10000101010101010101 + #open
Data that is open, accessible, reusable & remixable

10. Why should you we support #opendata?
• Increased opportunities
• Improves Innovation
• Improves Transparency
• Improves Citizen Participation/ Adaptation for Local Use
• Improves efficiency of government services
• New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes

11. What datasets should we begin to see?
• Our Demography (number of men, women, children)
• Number of schools in a particular region
• Distribution of power supply
• Distribution of eligible voters in a region
• Number of road traffic accidents
• Number of markets in Lagos with the distribution of traders in each market
• Just think it and it can be open data

12. How to make data open
1. Choose a Data Set
2. Attach an Open License
3. Present the Data in a preferred format to Your Audience
4. Make your data Discoverable

13. Examples of Opendata tools

14. Examples of Open Data Projects Around the World
• Australia
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Chile
• Ghana
• India
• Italy
• Kenya
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Philippines
• Russian Federation
• United Kingdom
• United States of America

15. Sources of Open Data
• Budgit: http://yourbudgit.com/
• Gidi Traffic: https://twitter.com/Gidi_Traffic
• Edo State Government: http://data.edostate.gov.ng/Home/index.html
• Kaduna State Government: http://openkaduna.com.ng/
• Nigeria Open Data Portal: http://nigeria.opendataforafrica.org/
• Nigeria Open Data Access: https://opendata.com.ng/
• World Bank: http://opendatatoolkit.worldbank.org
• Web Foundation: http://opendatabarometer.org/
• NASA: https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/

16. What Next?
• Do press releases, announcements on your website, and so on, you may
consider:
• Contact prominent organisations or individuals who work/are interested in this
area
• Contact relevant mailing lists or social networking groups
• Directly contact prospective users who you know may be interested in this data
Culled from Open Data Handbook

17. How Creative Commons Licenses Work

18. Creative Common Licenses
License Icon Can someone use
it commercially?
Can someone create new versions
of it?
CC-BY Yes Yes
CC-BY-SA Yes Yes, but the new work must
licensed as Share-Alike
CC-ND Yes NO
CC-NC No Yes, the new work must be Non-
Commercial. However, it can be
under any Non-Commercial License
CC-NC-SA No YES, and they must license the
new work under a Non-Commercial
Share-Alike License
CC-NC-ND No No

19. Icon Description Acronym
Free
Cultural
Works
Remix
culture
Commercial
use
Freeing content globally
without restrictions
CC0 Yes Yes Yes
Attribution alone BY Yes Yes Yes
Attribution + ShareAlike BY-SA Yes Yes Yes
Attribution +
Noncommercial
BY-NC No Yes No
Attribution + NoDerivatives BY-ND No No Yes
Attribution +
Noncommercial + ShareAlike
BY-NC-SA No Yes No
Attribution +
Noncommercial +
NoDerivatives
BY-NC-ND No No No
Courtesy: Wikipedia

20. Using a licenced work
• Include any copyright notices (if applicable). ...
• Cite the author's name, screen name, or user ID, etc. ...
• Cite the work's title or name (if applicable), if such a thing exists. ...
• Cite the specific CC license the work is under. ...
• Mention if the work is a derivative work or adaptation.

21. How to License Using CC
• Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/

23. • Is the licensor able to license the works CC
• The licenses are forever
• Are you fine with all the derivatives of your work? Are you ok with
someone using your work for gay issues that you do not support?
Challenges

24. Let’s keep in touch
Kayode Yussuf
Tech Lead
Creative Commons Nigeria
+2348029730089
kayode@creativecommonsng.org
@CC_Nigeria
@k_whybaba