grampian information conference 2014 - keynote presentation

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Keynote:Grampian Information Conference 6th November 2014 #giconf14

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Introduction

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A Quick Test

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Provider and her audience

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1982 (and 1997) versus today

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2012

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Open everything?

• Open Source

• Open Data

• Open Knowledge

• Open Access

• Open………

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Code For Europe

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Reusable code: Tag. Check. Score.

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Reusable code: Muse

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Open Data: what’s the point?

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CodeTheCity

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CodeTheCity 2

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CodeTheCity 3?

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Other Opportunities

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A winner!

• Earlier this week I tweeted a link to a blog post about

this event.

• I published buzzword bingo cards for today’s talk and

encouraged you to download and print them.

• The first person to get a full line on a card would win a

prize.

• If you are not using tools such as Twitter for work

– you are missing so much valuable information.

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Open Conversations

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What about your your services?

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Some thoughts to take away

• Principles:

– openness, participation, co-design, sharing, networking

• Partnering:

– service users, other providers, other sectors, SMEs, local groups

• Opportunities

– Hack events,

– Service Jams,

– UK & EU programmes,

• Tools and platforms:– Social Media (Twitter?)

– Collaboration – Github, Hackpad, Slack and 1000 others

– Eventifier

– MOOCs

– Blogs

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Useful Links

• http://www.civicexchange.eu/app/tag-check-score

• http://www.civicexchange.eu/app/muse-open-source

• http://codethecity.org/

• http://codeforeurope.net/

• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aberdeen/MapHack/2014-11

• https://57north.co/

• https://opencorporates.com/

• http://openbadges.org/

• http://hackforchange.org/report/

• https://okfn.org/

• http://commonlibraries.cc/about/

• https://hackpad.com/Grampian-Information-Conference-2014-37M8IJ2tTzv

• http://youtu.be/pFCtJF_aN6M

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Contact details & photo credits

• Ian Wattianw@aberdeencity.gov.uk

+44 1224 522830

@watty62

• Photo Credits (all from UnSplash.com unless otherwise specified)

• ZX81 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecattell/

• Sheepdog by https://www.flickr.com/photos/sophiea/

• #CodeTheCity – pics tweeted by the participants