The document discusses how open data can catalyze open innovation in the Caribbean region. It outlines the promises of open data, such as improved transparency and enabling new business models, but notes some realities like a lack of transparency in some cases and ignorance of open data's benefits. The document advocates for an open innovation ecosystem with various stakeholders and emphasizes that leadership, awareness, access, and policy are needed. Barriers to open data innovation like a lack of familiarity and evidence of benefits are identified but solutions are presented. Collaboration, leadership by example, engaging innovators and entrepreneurs, and celebrating successes are recommended to advance open data innovation.

1. Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

2. Open
DATA
Catalyst for Open
Caribbean
Innovation
Bevil Wooding
CKO,
Congress WBN
OPEN. INNOVATE. ADVANCE.

3. Open Data – The Promise
Improves
transparency
Harnesses external
innovation
Creates entirely
new & significant
business models
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

4. Open Data – The Reality
Transparency is not always
desired
“Give it to me now” culture,
resulting in increasing
intolerance to barriers to
information access
Disturbing levels of Ignorance
of the proven social AND
economic benefits
Few success-stories at the
local and regional level
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

5. Making the Link
OPEN DATA
AND
INNOVATION

6. Defining Innovation
“deliberately bringing into being
something original, unique or
novel, with inherent value or utility
and that can be replicated and
sustained”
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

7. Leadership and Innovation
In this context…
Leadership defines the arc joining a
great new idea to its eventual and
sustained manifestation
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

8. Innovation Activators
Leaders lead…
People being able to identify with a
defined vision, prioritize it over other
needs and direct activities towards
manifesting it
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

9. Innovation Activators
Leaders build…
Systems providing a correct framework
for innovation culture to be birthed, to
be secured, to develop, and to flourish
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10. The Open Innovation Ecosystem
PEOPLE
(Developers, Users, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Co Applications
ntent Managers, etc.)
TOOLS CONTENT Government
Leadership Awareness Access Policy
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11. An Increasingly Open World
Developed as
well as
Developing
countries are
deriving real
Public Sector Dataset Catalogs
http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/ benefits and
value from open
data
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

12. An Increasingly Open World
The private
sector is also
joining in….
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

13. Openly Spreading the World
Competitions, Co
de
Fests, Awards, …
.
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14. Advancing Open Data
REMOVING THE
OBSTACLES TO
ADOPTION AND
INNOVATION

15. 5 Key Barriers to Open Data
Innovation
1. Lack of familiarity with the model
2. Lack of evidence of benefits
3. Perceived challenges to
ownership, control, and monetization
4. Uncertainty on how to leverage
5. Not yet a critical mass of interested
developers
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

16. The Good News….
Problems
have
solutions
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

17. Open Data Innovation
Collaboration is
Key
Leadership by
Example
Initiative from our
Innovators
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

18. Open Data Innovation
Excite the
Innovators and
Entrepreneurs
Start with what We
have
Engage the Media
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

19. Open Data Innovation
Promote with
Passion, but also
with Strategy.
Create
Opportunities
Celebrate
Successes Openly
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20. Thank You
Contact:
Bevil Wooding
Chief Knowledge Officer
Congress WBN
cko@congresswbn.org
www.congresswbn.org

21. An Open Data World
NEW YORK: Focus on crowd-sourced
innovation http://open.gov.ny
KENYA: Africa’s 1st OD initiative
http://open.gov.ke
MOLDOVA: 160 datasets, 20 agencies
http://data.gov.md
LONDON UK: open data pioneer
http://data.london.gov.uk
AFRICAN DEV BANK: Inc. food
security, gender & climate change
http://opendataforafrica.org
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

22. Open
DATA
Catalyst for Open
Caribbean
Innovation
Bevil Wooding
CKO,
Congress WBN
OPEN. INNOVATE. ADVANCE.

23. Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org

24. About the Presenter
Bevil M. Wooding
Mr. Wooding serves is an international technologist. He serving at a
number of non-profit organisations to help advance national an dregioal
development through ICTs.
He is the Chief Knowledge Officer of congress WBN, a values based
NGO focused on “ethical nations development”.
He is also an Internet strategist with Packet Clearing House, a US-
based non-profit research institute supporting critical internet
infrastructure and development.
He also serves as the Program Director for the Caribbean
Telecommunications Union’s Caribbean ICT Roadshow where he
regularly facilitates regional and international initiatives on ICT,
Innovation, Policy, and Internet Governance and Internet Exchange
Point (IXP) Development.
Open Data – Catalyst for Caribbean Open Innovation www.congresswbn.org