fvh open up the city: 8 open up the city rufus pollock
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http://events.forumvirium.fi/openupthecity/Forum Virium HelsinkiFourth Annual Seminar of Forum Virium Helsinki, Thursday 11th March 2010.The seminar theme was Open up the City - Open data, design, interfaces and innovation Speakers PresentationsWe are providing these presentations as a courtesy to seminar visitors. Please contact the speakers themselves for permissions to use the material.TRANSCRIPT
Open (Public) Data: What, Why, HowForum Virium - Open Up the City - HelsinkiRufus Pollock[Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge][Open Knowledge Foundation]Licensed under cc-by v3.0 (any jurisdiction)
About the Foundation
Founded 2004 / Not-for-profit
Promoting, Creating Disseminating Open Knowledge
http://www.okfn.org/vision/
What?
What is 'Open'?
Open = Freedom to Use / Re-use / Redistribute
http://www.opendefinition.org/
What Data?
Transport, Geodata, Statistics, Electoral-Legal ...
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Why?
The Holy Trinity:Innovation, Efficiency, TransparencyAKA: Jobs and Growth, Community and Governance
£5 Billion UK, €27 billion for EU
Information is Special: Non-RivalrousVery cheaply copied ~ zero cost
Giving me a 'copy' of your car is a problem, giving me a copy of your data isn't
The Many Minds Principle
The Best Thing to do With Your Data will be Thought of by Someone Else
Fixing is Faster with Open Data(And You Don't Repeat Yourself)To many eyes all bugs are shallow
One department can find and use another's data
Scaling(Closed Data Doesn't Scale!)
We're Weaving Data Together To Scale We Need to Componentize But We Need to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again -Not Possible if Closed
Where Does My Money Go?
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Transparency, Efficiency, Innovation ...
Enabling a Read/Write CultureOpen data allows citizens to 'write' back - adding, commenting and updating whether to their own copy or the'original'
This is the Radical Change
How?
Get Started:
Fast, Small and SimpleRemember: KISS
Address Common Fears and MisunderstandingsMisuse, blame, services versus data, formats ...
Deal with LicensingIt's boring - but without it nothing else works ...
http://www.opendatacommons.org/Legal Solutions for Open Data
Have a Catalogue
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CKAN - powering CKAN.net, data.gov.uk and many more
Separate Storage - Support Write
Be DistributedIt's Not One Ring to Rule them All
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
Engage Citizens and DevelopersOpenness Isn't An End In Itself - Data Has No Value If It Isn't Used
Manage ExpectationsWe Won't Get There Tomorrow (But Maybe the Day After)
And Remember Faraday's Response to Gladstone: "What's the Use of a Baby?"
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Conclusion
Open Data for a Read/Write City
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We Want the Data RawAnd We Want the Data Nowhttp://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/
Thank-YouRufus Pollockrufus.pollock [at] okfn [dot] org
CreditsImagestolkein_ring.jpg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ringinscription.jpglego.jpg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/265899811/humpty_dumpty.jpg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/298669543/woven_ball.jpg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/387876530/sizes/s/sim_city_airport.jpg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42183741@N05/3890767674/in/photostream/thomas_jefferson.jpg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_Peale-Thomas_Jefferson.jpgstick_figure_male.png: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/15036stick_figure_female.png: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/15040city_icon.png: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20145
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