Open Government is Participation, Collaboration and Transparency. How Designers, Journalist, Entrepreneurs and Programmers are turning civic data into visualization, news articles, startups and apps. Presented by Kyle Geske a the March 2015 Ramp Up Manitoba Open Data Super Meetup.

1. Open Government
& Open Data
Kyle Geske
Co-Founder Open Democracy Manitoba

2. Open Democracy
Manitoba
Empowering voters, through education
and technology, for an accountable
and respectful democracy.

3. Our Projects
WinnipegElection.ca
ManitobaElection.ca
One million page views with two hundred
thousand users and counting.

4. Canadian Internet
Registration Authority
$25,000 in funding for the open
source toolkit that powers our
sites.

7. Open Government
Participation
Collaboration
Transparency

8. cc image attribution: flickr.com/photos/suxsie_q/5581079091
Participation

9. Collaboration
Politicians
Civil Servants
Citizens
Companies
Non-Governmental Orgs

10. Transparency
Provide citizens with
information about what
their Government is doing.

11. Open Data
The default release of the data the
government collects.
All the studies, reports, decisions,
maps and calendars available online
in a machine-readable format.

12. Open Data
Budgets
Expenses
Maps
Transit
Taxes
311
Construction
Crime

13. Data vs Information
Data is raw, unorganized facts.
When data is structured, or presented
in a given context so as to make it
useful, it is called information.

14. Browser Usage Data
Becomes Information...
source: http://gs.statcounter.com

16. Wpg OpenGov Wins
Winnipeg Transit Open API
2013-2015 Council Meetings on YouTube
Neighbourhoods of Winnipeg - now.winnipeg.ca
80 Open Datasets - data.winnipeg.ca

17. Open Data in Canada
Municipalities and Provinces across the country
now have open data portals.
At the federal level we have open.canada.ca

18. Success Story:
ReCollect.net
App built using City of Vancouver Open Data to
reminder citizens of their garbage day.
Now a company with the following cities as
customers: Vancouver, Surrey, Ottawa, Victoria

19. How Do We
Participate As...
Coders
Designers
Journalists
Entrepreneurs

20. Coders
You've got the skills to process,
filter, and visualize this data.
Unopen data can also be
liberated through scraping.

21. Designers
Turning data into information is
a design / UX problem.

22. Journalists
Data is a starting place for stories
that might otherwise have been
missed.

23. Entrepreneurs
Image Attribution: David Eaves - http://eaves.ca

24. cc image attribution: flickr.com/photos/petefletch/3867701178
Democracy
is only as strong
as the individual
parts that create it.