PowerPoint Presentation

GO Open Data Futures Panel

May 21, 2013

Source: 123opendata.com

TopicsIntroductionsKey points we heard todayUniversity of Waterloo/Higher EducationDirections OpportunitiesFutureLets hear from the panel and you!

Open Data What We HeardOpen data has unique challenges The Open Data movement is transforming our society and economy in numerous of ways and privacy can still be upheld!Transparency and openness are key to any business and especially public institutions Open data underlines accountability and open government Open data upholds trust for governments and institutionsOpen data promotes new innovation but it takes Collaboration and developers, engaged citizens, governments and institutions to work together in new waysDeveloper friendly data actually friendly period!Open licenses and effective policiesOpen Data Alley networking discussionsNote: This is a placeholder that will be updated throughout the day Open data has unique challenges that need to be addressed to avoid serious risks to its successThe Open Data movement is transforming our society and economy in numerous of ways and privacy can still be upheld!Transparency and openness are key to any business and especially public institutions Open data underlines accountability and open government at the municipal level, ensuring that due process is doneOpen data upholds trust for governments and institutionsOpen data promotes new innovation but it takes Collaboration and developers, engaged citizens, governments and institutions to work together in new waysDeveloper friendly data actually friendly period!Open licences and effective policiesOpen Data Alley networking discussions

3University of Waterloo

Open Data Initiative

Open Data Guide

Higher Education Online

Source: Waterloo LEARNSource: CourseraQuantum Valley

Source: IQCOpportunitiesShared terms and conditionsCommon data catalogueOne client focusPrivacy assessment methodInformation sharingOpen Application Program Interface

For Higher EdThe Future is More OpennessMore access to data to students, faculty, research donors, partners and the public in generalMore effective reporting to the other levels of government that will enhance planning and therefore more efficiencies in the delivery of servicesPerformance measures of institutions and governments (and industry) will increasingly be important to the publicContinued alignment and partnerships with other higher education institutions, government and with industry

Panel PresentationsHeather Leson

Jury Konga

Patricia D'Souza

Ushahidi is information collection, data visualization and interactive mapping software. We are used for election monitoring, city building, Civil society work such as anti-corruption and harassment reporting. Plus, we are used for environmental actions.

Uchaguzi was our partnership and community driven project for the Kenyan elections. (March 2013)We tried to incorporate both citizen and official data. uchaguzi.co.kehttp://sitroom.uchaguzi.co.ke/

Nice data, so what?The Uchaguzi project started with base layer information of all the counties, all the polling stations and an offline communications strategy. We had radio announcements, grocery store screens had TV ads with our short codes. Next, our team and partners trained people from partner organizations collected information via SMS (primary channel), email, web forms, mobile apps, and, of course, social media. We received 1000s of messages, we had strategies to verify and escalate issues to official organizations. But the partnership with the government was not possible. A citizen program of communication and voice is this much closer to being tied to official action. Someday.

Some of other ways that data science mattered - we had a QA Integrity team to doublecheck for private information and tribe information. We were prepared to have visualization around the Results, but the electoral commission (IEBC) had technical failures. In the end, they did manual counts.

Around the world organizations like Oxform, ICT4Peace, World Bank, ICRC and the Woodrow Wilson Center are working to build research in the area around new technology and humanitarian work. When we are building projects and using data to tell stories and help people, we need to mindful of these and incorporate these in our strategy. If we can protect the people most at risk, we build trust with our fellow citizens, institutions and governments.

The ICRC, hosted by the International Crisismappers community, provided this framework for data standards.

Some of the Key Standards for Data management they outlined included - 1. necessity & capacity 2. data protection laws, 3. do no harm 4. Bias/non-discrimination (objective information/processing) 4. Quality check/reliability

http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/data-protection-standards-2-0/http://acmc.gov.au/2013/04/in-search-of-common-ground-protection-of-civilians-in-armed-conflict/http://ict4peace.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-potential-and-challenges-of-open-data-for-crisis-information-management-and-aid-efficiency.pdfhttp://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/publication/p0999.htmhttp://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Privacy_MissingPersons_FINAL.pdfhttp://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/humanitarianism-network-age

Rhok.orghttp://opendataday.org/datakind.orghttp://spaceappschallenge.org/http://spaceapps.tumblr.com/ http://codeforamerica.org/http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/datasciencefellowship/http://opengovhub.org/http://www.ihub.co.ke/Photo by Jonathan Kalan

@heatherlesontextontechs.comHow will we connect our mission for data to what real citizens need? How can we involve them in our plans? Even more so, how can we be guided by them and be excited for this common journey?

In 2009, Todd Huffman and Sean Gorman created a beer for data program in Afghanistan. What is the Canadian version of this? If Harassmap has community city and youth captains to help outreach and educate, how can we remix this?harassmap.org http://blog.geoiq.com/2010/04/29/beer-for-data-arlington/

http://blog.geoiq.com/2009/09/01/monitoring-the-potential-for-afghan-election-fraud-leveraging-open-data-for-transparency/

Some Resources:http://www.ushahidi.com/ and https://wiki.ushahidi.com/

Some communities:RHOK: RHoK.org /rhokto.caStandby Task Force: http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/HOT: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/Crisismappers.net Photo by Jonathan Kalan - jonathankalan@gmail.com

Open Data blah, blah, blah Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

May 11, 2013.

University of Waterloo Pharmacy BuildingBEYOND Open Data

Beyond Open Data- Personal to Global Wellbeing19

Source: Health and Wellbeing UK

Source: Wellbeing TorontoPersonalCommunityGlobal

Jury KongaOpen by Design TMBeyond Open Data- Open GovernmentJury KongaOpen by Design TMCore componentsOpen Data is foundational

Open Hub: C3

Supporting Infrastructure20Citizen EngagementCitizen EngagementCitizen EngagementCitizen EngagementCitizen EngagementCitizen EngagementCommunityEngagementOpen Hub: C3

CommonsCommunicationCollaborationOpen InnovationOpen DataOpen KnowledgeOpen DecisionsOpen EconomicsSupporting InfrastructureDataFinancial & Human ResourcesPolicy & StandardsTechnologyLeadership & GovernanceVersion 2 of 2010 Open Government FrameworkJury KongaOpen by Design TM20Beyond Open Data- a shift in resources21More Community less government

more collaboration & partneringJury KongaOpen by Design TMBeyond Open Data- ubiquitous22The Internet of Things open data is just part of that

www.govtech.com/What-is-the-Internet-of-Everything.html Academia, Non-Profits, Community GroupsOpenStreetMapCommunity UpdatesExternal Data LinkagesOpenData.CA

ProvincialMunicipalFederalPublic ServiceSource: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010Evolved from Data Infra-structure model circa 1994Jury KongaOpen by Design TMBeyond Open Data- real time Mobile WorldGlobal SensorFeeds

Source: NASA

Source: AutoGuide.com23

Source: Shore-Designs.comJury KongaOpen by Design TM

BEYOND Open Data making the world a better placejkonga@sympatico.ca@jkonga www.slideshare.net/jurykonga

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Patricia DSouzaHead, Strategy Planning and Enterprise ArchitectureGovernment of OntarioMay 11, 2013

Open Data in theProvince of OntarioWhere We Are Today: Ontario.ca/opendata26

26Open Data : Ontarios Program2727Phase 1Phase 2April 2012November 2012Spring 2013December 201227Where We Are Today: 5 Steps to Publishing Data28

Step 1:Identify Data

Step 2:Assess DataStep 3: Prepare Data

Step 4: Get approvalsStep 5:Publish!

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Two days after the Open Data catalogue was launched, a data journalist used Ontario data to inform citizens on the quality of drinking water by analysing and overlaying the data on Google maps.Challenge: Is Ontario data of value?#29Whats Next: Addressing Challenges30Additional functionality, including search and datavisualizationNew Partnerships across sectors (government, academia, business)Updated Policies to support a culture shift towards a share first philosophy

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