After One Year of Open Data in Taiwan

TH ScheeFertta Communications

2011.12.14中央研究院 資訊科技創新研究中心

Taipei, Taiwan

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Background:

Citizen + Data Enthusiast

Credit: mcclouc_chrome_characters

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Love at First Sight

• Budget 預算！

• Open Congress 國會議事記錄！

• Transparency 陽光法案！

• Wikileaks 維基解密！

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Open Sourcethis is like defining "democracy"...

Open Accessscholarly publications freely available on

the internet

Open Contentmaking resources aimed at a human audience (such as prose, photos, or

videos) freely available

Not New

!

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Open Source

Community

OSM

CC

Enterprise

Hadoop

Cassandra

Big Data

MapReduce

the R

Tech

Privacy

Ownership

Copyright

Rights Group Media

Data Journalism

Visualization

BI

EDW

Tender

OMG!

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US Open Government

EU Open Data Strategy

We think we are here

but...Taiwan

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But it's hard for Governments to experimentAn online compliance checklist for designers of government websites identifies no fewer than 24 different regulatory regimes with which all public government web sites must comply.

Robinson, David G., Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P. and Felten, Edward W., Government Data and the Invisible Hand (Fall 2009). Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, p. 160, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1138083

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Open DataCloud Computing

Public Sector Information

OGPTransparency

E-Gov

Apps

Digital Divide

Infrastructure

OpenGov

Civic vs

State

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7.09%3.34%

32.34%57.22%

政府資訊系統 G-Cloud法人、科專科技研發（國科會）數位機會、學習

雲端運算產業發展方案 15項計畫

預算應用別

Source: 雲端運算產業發展方案（備查本）

Date: 20111123

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Local Governments

Central Governments

New Economy

Porcessing, editing and packaging

Marketingand deliveryData Creation Aggregation and

organization

Raw Data Final Product

ICT Infrastructure

Source: REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES ON PSI RE-USE AND RELATED MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

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2 Worlds Apart

24hrs

Digital Nativesthat live in data

Digital Immigrantsthat struggle for data

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Information is the currency of democracy...... and Taiwan is right on the track to take it.

First quote that might be falsely accredited to Thomas Jefferson.

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