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Driving Innovation with Open Data
Jeanne HolmEvangelist, Data.gov
April 21, 2012
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Change is Happening…
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What Will You Do?
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PeoplePeople Knowledge Problems
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Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes accountability
• Participation allows people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry
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Data.gov
• Open government flag project for the administration
• Provides instant access to over 450,000 datasets in easy to use formats
• Contributions from UN, World Bank, and 172 agencies
• Encourage development of innovative applications
• Drive innovation and knowledge use across the globe
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“A Strategy for American Innovation” published September 2009
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Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data – and give it freely to developers,
scientists, and citizens
2. Connect the community– to allow collaboration through
social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure – built on standards
4. Encourage developers – to create apps that empower
people’s choices
5. Gather more data– and connect more people
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Easy to Find Data
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The Power of Visualizations
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• Provides developers the tools and raw data formats to develop new capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov Interest Group) and with RPI for research in semantic web and open linked data
• Connected to other open data efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud• Open source platform• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
Powered Through Advanced Technologies
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Open CommunitiesCommunityHealth ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education ✓
Ocean ✓
Safety ✓
BusinessUSA ✓
Restore the Gulf ✓
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Research and Development ManufacturingCitiesConsumerHuman rights + many more…
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Data.gov for the Economy
• NOAA’s data helped build weather-related business• Weather forecasting• The Weather Channel• Weather.com
• When the Department of Defense released satellite data…private industry created affordable GPS devices!
• Opportunities for private sector are limitless
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Health.Data.govChampion: Todd ParkUS Chief Technology Officer
Apps Forums
Challenges
Blogs
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Publicizing Data to Innovators
• Challenges and code‐a-thons (health2challenge.org)
• Many innovator “meetups” and conferences
• Annual health data-paloozas
• Over 139 applications• 50 new businesses• Thousands of lives
improved each day
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Creating Apps That Improve Lives: Asthmapolis
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Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov connects innovators, industry, academia, and government at federal, state, and local levels
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Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov connects works with challenges across the nation to integrate federal data and bring government personnel to code-a-thons
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Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform data in understandable ways to help people make decisions
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Green Button
• Allow anyone to download their historical energy use data from their local utility
• Use apps to manage your energy use to save money and go green
• More at Energy.Data.gov
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Managing Open Data Tomorrow
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★• Provide simple ways to visualize the data• Create communities to understand and apply data• Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry, and
academia to drive innovation• Develop open source open government data platform with
India for global use and further community development• Share with others to understand global issues
Be the change you want to see in the world– Ghandi
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US Open Government Action Plan• On 20 September 2011, President
Obama announced at the UN General Assembly, and updated last week by Secretary of State Clinton at the Open Government Partnership
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform– India and the U.S. creating open source
platform– Will allow any country to create open
data site
• Foster communities on Data.gov– Health, energy, and law plus new
communities in education, research and development, and public safety
• Launch International Space Apps Competition
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NASA International Space Apps
• Happening today on 7 continents and in space!• Launch International Space Apps Competition
– NASA and other space agencies will gather scientists and citizens– Use data for global challenges: weather impacts on global economy
and depletion of ocean resources
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Open Government Platform (OGPL)
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Like OpenGovPlatform on Facebook!
• Open source solution base co-developed by Governments of India and US– Kick started by India and US but
owned by the open source community
– National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov Teams
– Offered free via open source to any city or nation
– Includes web site, data management, communities, and policy and case examples
– More information at:http://www.data.gov/opengovplatform
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Open Gov Through Open Source
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• Alpha code for OGPL available at Github• https://github.com/opengovtplatf
orm/opengovplatform-DMS/wiki
• US Data.gov will migrate to OGPL later in 2012
• Coordinating with other open data providers, platforms, and communities, including– W3C– World Bank– CKAN– Open source developers world
wide– …and more
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Open Data at Cities, Counties, and States
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Coming soon…Cities.Data.gov!
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A Global Movement Has Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization of Data
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Don’t see your site? Update via @usdatagov
Join us at the International Open Government Data Conference, July 10-12 at the World Bank in Washington DC• http://www.data.gov/communitie
s/conference
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Let’s work together to set the data free!
www.Data.Gov@usdatagov
jholm@jpl.nasa.gov@JeanneHolm
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