In many countries across the world, discussions, policies and developments are actively emerging around Open Data. It is believed that opening government data can have significant economic potential, generating new industries and innovations. This presentation provides a short introduction to Open Data, with a focus on available public data from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) - http://statistics.gov.rw. The presentation also explore the roles played by the group of actors involved in strengthening the Open Data ecosystem in Rwanda and the steps involved in monetizing open data.

1. Open Data, Open Opportunities
An introduction to open data, with a focus on available public data from NISR
Rajiv Ranjan
ICT Advisor – NISR/UNDP

2. Agenda
Knowing Open Data
Pioneers
Benefits
Open Data in Rwanda
Demo
Monetizing Open Data
Open Data ecosystem
Conclusion

3. What is Open Data?

4. “
“Open data is a philosophy and practice
requiring that certain data be freely available
to everyone, without restrictions from
”
copyright, patents or other mechanisms of
control…”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

5. “
“Open data is data that can be freely used,
reused and redistributed by anyone – subject
only, at most, to the requirement to attribute
”
and sharealike.”
- OpenDefinition.org

6. Conditions for Open Data:
Open standards and machine readable
To be open, data must be accessible online, published
without technical restrictions to re-use, and provided under a
license that allows the data to be re-used without limitation,
including across different "fields of endeavour" (i.e.
commercial and non-commercial alike).

7. Pioneers

8. Data.worldbank.org
Data.gov.uk
Data.gov

9. Opendata.go.ke

10. What is so good about Open Data?

11. Open Data creates new markets!
Photo by Fisher- http://viewology.net/thai-hat-yai-klonghae-floating-market-pictures/622/

12. Opportunities
•Visualization
• Analysis
• Community Management
• Mash up/Combining Data
• APIs
• Data Mining
etc.

13. Where to find Open Data in Rwanda?

14. Statistics.gov.rw

15. Dissemination tools in NISR
SDMX Open Data
Registry Portal
Sdmx.statistics.gov.rw
Statistics.gov.rw
Prognoz NADA
Prognoz.statistics.gov.rw Microdata.statistics.gov.rw
DevInfo IMIS
Devinfo.statistics.gov.rw Imis.statistics.gov.rw
Publications (PDFs) &
(Data in Excel) Indicators (Time series) Microdata
Survey information
Statistics.gov.rw

16. Demo

17. Opportunities for businesses?

18. Key check points:
• The idea
• The data Business Model?
• The technology
• The design/visual
• The pitch
Examples
• Real estate/property data (houses for sale matched with data on real estate taxes, data on specific
properties, etc (Zillow.com)
• Data for business intelligence (such as what Spikes Cavell Analytics offers to clients - spikescavell.net)
Thx to @JeffKaplan88 for the examples

19. Need to leverage collective intelligence

20. Open Data ecosystem
Government
Academia Private sector
Community groups

21. Conclusion
“There are substantial social and economic gains
to be made from opening government data to
the public. The combination of geographic,
budget, demographic, services, education, and
other data, publically available in open format
on the web, promises to improve services as
well as create future economic growth.”
- Open Data Study, May 2010
(http://www.soros.org/reports/open-data-study)

22. Thank you!
rajivranjan.org