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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 [email protected]
+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
