The document discusses the concept of open data, emphasizing its non-rivalrous nature and importance for public good by enabling transparency, engagement, and economic growth. It highlights the potential for open data to significantly boost G20 output and lists various categories of data and resources for both consumers and providers. Open data is portrayed as a powerful tool for fostering social and commercial value globally.

1. Open Data:
Not just a buzzword

2. by Robert Bates
Phase2
rbates@phase2technology.com
arpieb most other places

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard

4. What is “open data?”

5. “He who receives an idea from me,
receives instruction himself without lessening mine;
as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me.”
- Thomas Jefferson

6. Information has public good characteristics.
It is ‘non-rivalrous.’
One person’s consumption of it
doesn’t prevent others consuming it.

7. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist.
If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t
engage.
If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be re-purposed, it doesn’t
empower.
The Three Laws of Open Government Data
(http://eaves.ca/2009/09/30/three-law-ofopen-government-data)

8. What kinds of data?
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Cultural
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Science
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Finance
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Statistics
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Weather
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Environment
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Transport

9. Why is open data
important?

10. Open data is global...
Scaling recent results of the McKinsey Global
Institute suggests that implementation of open
data policies … could increase G20 output by
around USD 13 trillion over the next five years.
“Open for Business: How Open Data Can Help Achieve the
G20 Growth Target.” June 2014.

11. Open data promotes...
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Transparency
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Social value
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Commercial value
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Engagement

12. Great stuff!
Now what?

13. Be a data consumer...
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DataCatalogs.org
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FedStats.gov
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DBPedia.org
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Industry associations
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Research organizations
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NPOs / NGOs (UN, IMF, WorldBank, etc)

14. … or be a data provider!
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CKAN (http://ckan.org)
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DKAN (https://drupal.org/project/dkan)
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Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org)
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Socrata (http://socrata.com)
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NuCivic Data (http://nucivic.com)

15. What can you do with it?

16. What can you do with it?

17. Open data in the wild!

18. Questions?