1. Open Data Matters
– The New Reality and Community Benefits
Jury Konga, Principal
Open Data Forum Oct. 30, 2012.
eGovFutures Group

2. Acknowledgements
Appreciation is extended to the following for their contribution and
collaboration related to this event and presentations
• AMCTO and their team
• Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of
Ontario
• Lou Milrad, Milrad Law
• Roy Wiseman, Executive Director MISA/ASIM Canada
• Fellow speakers
• Open Data community
Title slide graphics complements of www
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3. Overview
• Open Data – defined with context
• Current State
• Open Data Framework
• Moving forward
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4. Open Data
- the new reality
• Early in the
“new era” of
open data
• Gaining
acceptance &
momentum
• How - similar
approach but …
unique to each
organization
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5. Open Data
- the new reality
• International Right-To-Know Week Goal:
“to raise global awareness of individuals’
right to access government information
and
to promote access to information as a
fundamental human right”
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6. Open Data
- the new reality
• Starting point
• Roots in Freedom of Information legislation
- oldest identified with Sweden in 1766;
- U.S.A. 1966;
- Canada FOI as well as Privacy Act; 1983;
- Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and
Protection of Privacy Act, 1990
• More recently, Open Data seen as foundational
component of Open Government
• focuses on citizen
engagement, transparency, accountability, collabora
tion and innovation
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7. Open Government
Community
Citizen
Engagement
Engagement Framework 2.0
Open Open
Citizen
Innovation
Engagement
Citizen
Data
Engagement • Core components
Open Hub: C3 – Open Data is
• Commons
foundational
• Communication
• Collaboration
Open Open
Citizen
Knowledge
Engagement
Citizen
Decisions
Engagement
• “Open Hub”: C3
Open
Citizen
Supporting Economics
Engagement Infrastructure
• Supporting
Infrastructure
• Policy & • Data
Standards • Financial &
• Technology Human Resources
Leadership & Governance
Version 2 of 2010 Open Government Framework
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8. This is
NOT
Open
Data
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9. Defining Open Data
“A piece of content or data is open to anyone is free to
use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
opendefinition.org/
Open Data is a foundational component for Open
Government and focuses on freely making public data
available in a usable format for all to re-use and add value
for the benefit of citizens.
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10. Open Data Attributes
Discoverable Redistribute
Use
ReUse
Machine
Readable
$ Attribution
= Minimal
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11. Current State
- A Global View … it’s pervasive
Over 55 participating countries
Over 189 Open Data portals
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12. Current State
- Participants at National Level
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13. Current State
- at the Provincial Level
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14. Current State
- the Ontario Municipal scene
Others in planning &
implementation stages
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15. Some public facing views of Open Data
Open Data portal & data catalogue Hackathons/Codefests …. Building apps
Citizen & Community Engagement – Unconferences, Govcamps, Changecamp,
Citycamps … defining the issues, identifying opportunities to improve
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16. Open Data
- the Apps Conte$t$
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17. Open Data Benefits
- a Citizen & Community perspective
• Ease of access to government information
• Economic development opportunities leading to job
creation
• Reduced costs for government operations
• Enhanced eService delivery
• Apps, Apps, Apps – for citizen, business and community
• Increased opportunities for community engagement and
collaboration in addressing societal needs
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18. Open Data Benefits
- a Business perspective
• Economic development opportunities
• Reduced costs to find & use government data
• Start-ups that leverage the data
• Value Added Resellers
• Innovation through new products & services
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19. Open Data Benefits
- a Government perspective
• Enhanced services to citizens and businesses
• Reduced costs via internal access and less external FOI
and data requests
• Economic development
• Improved government transparency & trust
• Increased citizen engagement, collaboration with
business and community groups
• Enhanced transparency and increased TRUST
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20. Open Data Framework
• G4: Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton & Ottawa
• ODF Project: August – December 2010.
• ODF Components
– Governance
– Principles & Policy
– Standards
– Technology
– Data, Operations & Human Resources
– Open Data Portal
– Future Roadmap
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21. Open Data Framework
- Governance, Principles & Policy
• Governance
• Where does Open Data fit? Leverage existing structure; Fit
to size of your organization; Define roles & responsibilities;
Corporate-wide participation; External Stakeholders
• Principles & Policy
• Sunlight Foundation’s “Ten Principles for Opening up
Government Information”; Ontario IPC “Access by Design”
principles
• Policy – relate to principles & MFIPPA & review existing
related policies
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22. Open Data Framework
- Standards & Technology
• Standards
• Data distribution, metadata,
Linked (Semantic) open data
Source: W3C : “Publishing Open Government Data”
• Technology
• ETL (Extract Transform Load), portal technology &
APIs, existing applications, Inhouse vs Cloud services
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23. Open Data Framework
- Data, Operations & HR
• Data
• Data requests & prioritization, information
inventory, suitability for release
• Operations
• ETL, data lifecycles & maintenance, quality
assurance & metadata, process standardization
• Human Resources
• Roles & responsibilities, training, new position –
Open Data Coordinator?
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24. Moving forward …
• General approach
• Research, draft project scope & plan, senior
management support, resource it
• Current state assessment & business alignment
• Develop Strategic & Implementation Plan
• How? Unique to each organization & capacity
to undertake
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25. Moving forward …
Open Data Maturity Model
Five Phases of Open Data
5 Global
4 Integration
3 Open Enterprise
Data Open Data
2 Data Portal
Catalog
1 Startup Evolutionary within
Info Management Best Practices
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26. Moving forward …
NxGen Data Model
• Municipal Data
Reference Model
v0.1 for discussion
• Collaboration
among
municipalities for
standard categories
of municipal data
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27. Moving forward …
Open Data NxGen
Open Data
DNA
Linked
Open Data
Linked … everything is connected
Personal Data to everything
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28. Moving forward …
- Integrated Service Delivery
Service Requests • Open Data
becomes part
Requests from MyHomePage of Integrated
(Facebook, Twitter, verbal) Service One (2.0) Service
- The Service Delivery
Coordinator
Integrated Service Delivery “Engine”
Standardized Processes, Protocols
•Products •Products
& Services & Services and Knowledge Base
• Value of the
Provincial Municipal
strategic asset
Private &
Non- Federal
Business is optimized
Profits Knowledge
•Products •Products Database
& Services & Services
Source: From a Social to a Service Web, 2009. www.slideshare.net/jkonga
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29. Moving forward …
- Scale & Integrate Open Data
Public Municipal Service
Find the data
Provincial Federal Share the data
External Academia, Non-
OpenData.
Profits,
Data Linkages OpenData.CA Community EARTH
(e.g. World Bank) Groups
OpenStreetMap
Community
Updates
USE
Evolved from Data Infra-
structure model circa 1994 the data
Source: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010 www.slideshare.net/jkonga
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30. Moving forward …
- Open Data in a Larger Societal View
Wellbeing Ontario
RGIS
Real-time Global
Information Sensors
network
Wellbeing Earth Wellbeing Canada
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31. Moving forward …
together as a community
Need to leverage our
Community Intellectual Capital
and resources Government
Community
Groups NGO
Academia Private
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32. Moving forward … not just Open Gov Data
Open Science Data
• Informal defn: “Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds
should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process.”
• Fundamental Goals – July 28, 2009.
 Transparency in experimental methodology, observation and collection of data
 Public availability and reusability of scientific data
 Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication
 Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration
• Opportunity for collaboration and benefits to society are HUGE
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33. Moving forward … not just Open Gov Data
Open Corporate Data
“The 147 Companies That Control Everything”
Forbes Article, October 22, 2011.
• OpenCorporates is a recent
initiative
• Aims: URL for every company in
the world & relating government
data to companies
• How about a “Good” Corporate
Source: The New Scientist; (Image: PLoS One) Citizen Index …. Occupy Wall Street
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-
revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html (#OWS) would be interested
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34. Concluding thoughts …
• Embrace Open Government and Open Data – you’re
actually already part of the way there
• It’s NOT a question of IF Open Data but … WHEN
Open Data – pervasive & growing
• Be prepared – plan for it & use necessary resources
to move it forward
• Open Data is beneficial to
government, citizens, businesses and can enhance
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35. Why Open Data - it’s simple …
Photographs courtesy of
Chatham-Kent
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36. Thank You
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
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