Ian Henshaw
@ihenshaw
CEO
The ODI NC
@TheODINC
#AnalyticsForward
“Open data and a change of mindset is
the next step in the internet revolution”
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
● Founded in 2012 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and
Professor Nigel Shadbolt
● The Open Data Institute is an independent,
non-profit, non-partisan, limited by guarantee
company.
Open Data Institute Mission (1)
● Demonstrate the commercial value of Open
Government Data (OGD) and the impact of
Open Data policies on the realization of this
value.
● Develop the capability of businesses to exploit
this value, with support from University
researchers
● Help the public sector use its own data more
effectively
Open Data Institute Mission (2)
● Engage with developers, the private and public
sector to build supply chains and commercial
outlets for public data
● Foster and train a generation of Open Data
entrepreneurs
● Secure and commission the required research in
underpinning Open Data technologies.
● Benchmark Open Data initiatives around the world.
Open data can help us address
the greatest challenges of our
time and generate value for
everyone.
Open Data Institute 2012
“Data is the new Oil” - Clive Humby
kenhodge13 (40132991@N07) on flickr.com
“Data is just like crude.” - Michael Palmer
● It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be
used.
● It has to be changed into gas, plastic,
chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that
drives profitable activity
Data must be broken down and
analyzed for it to have value.
Data is the raw material of the
new industrial revolution
- Francis Maude MP
What is Open Data?
Definition of Open (ODI)
Open data is data that is made
available by organizations, businesses
and individuals for anyone to access,
use and share.
● Open data has to have a license that says it is open data. Without a
license, the data can’t be reused. The license might also say:
– that people who use the data must credit whoever is publishing it (this
is called attribution)
– that people who mix the data with other data have to also release the
results as open data (this is called share-alike)
https://github.com
/theodi/data-
definitions
Justifications
Trust and
Transparency
Enabling the
Economy
Benefits of Open Data
● Data Driven Decision Making
● Performance Measurement
● Reduction of Government Costs
● Support an Open Government Initiative
– e.g. Transparency
● Economic Development
● Increased Citizen Engagement
● Talent Attraction / Retention
Data Driven Decision Making
http://london-
fire.labs.theodi.org/explore/
Performance Measurement
https://data.maryland.gov/
goals/energy-efficiency
Economic Development
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/what_executives_should_know_about_open_data
Report:
January 2014
Why Now?
A Global Movement
http://theodi.github.io/open-data-barometer-viz/
Open Data Portals in NC
http://technologytank.org/2015/02/26/open-data-portals-in-nc/
Triangle: Ground Zero for Open Data
http://technologytank.org/2015/02/21/the-triangle-is-ground-zero-for-open-data/
Open Data Competitions
Starts May 16, 2015
Ends September 2015
http://ncdatapalooza.com/
February, 2016
International Open Data Day
http://triangleopendataday.org/
ODI NC Services
Thought Leadership
Open Data Research
Open Data Training
Open Data Consulting
Data Set Certification
Networking
Knowledge
for everyone

The Open Data Institute at AnalyticsForward on March 14, 2015

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Introduction to the Open Data Institute of North Carolina (ODI NC)
  • #3 Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited as the founder of the World Wide Web. Open Data is Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new passion
  • #4 This is an image of the paper that Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed in 1989. The jotted note by his boss, Mike Sendall, allowed Sir Tim Berners-Lee to continue
  • #5 You can see from the illustration that the proposal looks like a web...
  • #6 The web did not really turn into what TBL envisioned as a way to easily share data. So TBL along with Professor Nigel Shadbolt formed the Open Data Institute to help complete the project that TBL proposed in 1989.
  • #10 “Data is the new oil,” declared Clive Humby, a Sheffield mathematician who with his wife, Edwina Dunn, made £90m helping Tesco with its Clubcard system. 1989 - Clive Humby, with his wife, Edwina Dunn found dunnhumby
  • #11 Michael Palmer, of the Association of National Advertisers, expanded on Humby’s quote:
  • #12 Francis Maude is an influential Member of British Parliament In 2010 Maude set up the Efficiency and Reform Group Maude has overseen the Government's transparency policy and also leads the UK Government's work with the Open Government Partnership. Maude drove the introduction of the Government's "digital by default" approach. He was responsible for the creation of the Government Digital Service.
  • #13 In 2013, the Open Data Institute formed a network of nodes to expand and internationalize the work of the ODI. The ODI borrowed from the design principles of the web itself to bring people and organisations together, and will use open data both to collaborate with each other, and as the primary output of the network.
  • #14 Currently there are 17 nodes. Country Nodes: Independent NGOs who are building national centres of excellence, working across public and private sectors, NGOs, educational institutions and other Nodes within the country. ODI USA and ODI Canada are currently in “beta” to reflect their startup status. City or Regional Nodes deliver projects, and can provide training, research, and development. ODI Dubai, ODI Chicago, and ODI North Carolina, ODI Paris, ODI Trento, ODI Brighton, ODI Manchester, ODI Leeds fall into this category. Communications Nodes amplify open data case studies from around the world and promote understanding. ODI Moscow, ODI Buenos Aires and ODI Gothenburg have joined at this level.
  • #15 Ask for people to define what it is...
  • #16 While there are many definitions of Open Data, the Open Knowledge Foundation's definition of Open Data is currently viewed by the ODI as the best definition of Open Data Important points: Anyone Free to use Reuse Redistribute
  • #17 There are also other categories of data. Here is a Venn Diagram of 3 of them and how they intersect. Open Data brings Transparency Personal Data brings Context Bid Data allows us to be Informed
  • #18 There are 2 major justifications of Open Data
  • #19 Here are some of the benefits derived from Open Data. What fits in “Trust and Transparency” What fits in “Enabling the Ecomomy” Or both...
  • #20 This is a study preformed by the ODI UK to visualize and allow input into the budgetary need to close 10 fire stations in London. Each choice allowed you to see what is the impact into the average response time by district amongst other things.
  • #21 Governor O'Malley is on the leading edge of publishing data and (in this case) providing transparent access to how Maryland is performing on a real-time basis on 16 strategic goals. Want to know what the actual data is? You just click through the provided graphs to get to the data and you can do your own analysis.
  • #22 This study by McKinsey in January 2014 showed the economic potential involved from Open Data. $3-5 Trillion per year in economic potential is huge. Putting it in perspective, the US economy is ~17-18 Trillion per year.
  • #23 So why has Open Data become important now? Policy Drivers (just here in the US) US is a founding member of the Open Government Partnership Federal Regulation Executive Order 13642, May 9, 2013 Open by Default and Machine Readable Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act), May 9, 2014 Transparency in Federal spending. Machine readable, searchable, Data standards