The document discusses open data and open government, defining open data as publicly available data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone. It provides examples of types of open data like cultural, scientific, financial and weather data. The benefits of open data are described as increased transparency, social and commercial value, and public engagement. The document encourages readers to both consume open data from sources like data catalogs and data portals, as well as contribute to open data initiatives by making their own data publicly available.

1. Open Data
+
Open Government
=
Open Goodness

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?
● Cultural
● Scientific
● Finance
● Statistics
● Weather
● Environment
● Transport
● Etc ad nauseum...

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...
● Transparency
● Social value
● Commercial value
● Engagement

12. Great stuff!
Now what?

13. Be a data consumer...
● DataCatalogs.org
● FedStats.gov
● DBPedia.org
● Data.gov
● Data.gov.uk

14. Be a data consumer...
● Industry associations
● Research organizations
● NPOs / NGOs (UN, IMF, WorldBank, etc)

15. TANSTAAFL!
● Reduce API calls where possible (caching ftw!) to prevent
overloading of servers
● Make your data analysis available where possible - pay it forward
● Don't try to bypass API key usage - analytics help fund open data!
● Offer to sponsor or assist data provider if there is commercial
value for YOU

16. … or be a data provider!
● CKAN
● DKAN
● Hadoop
● Socrata Open Data Server
● Good ol' HTTP/FTP
… anything that gets it out there!

17. What can you
do
with it?

18. What can you do with it?

19. What can you do with it?

20. Where can
you
find out more?

21. Organizations

22. Questions?