Reuse of Open Government

Data

If you have data in a format that makes sense to you, it will make sense to other smart people too!

Raw data now, better data later

The legal framework for access is available, but it’s still missing for re-use

CONSIDERATIONS

Readiness: Government Citizens Entrepreneurs

Impact: Economic Social Political

Data: Innovation Social Accountability

HOW?

Data to Fact: Search, Browse, Extract

Data to Information: Manipulate, Analyze, Visualize, Contextualize, Report

Data to Interface: Clean, Combine, Subset, Configure Interface Tools, Write Custom Code, Provide Interface

Data to Data: Convert Format, Filter Data, Augment/Combine Data, Provide API, Dataset for Download

Data to Service: Integrate into existing product/service, Create new service

USERS

Government focus: Wanting to better understand government and to promote efficiency and accountability

Technology innovation focused: Interested in creating new platforms and tools, and in semantic-web/linked-data technology;

Reward focused: Seeking recognition and/or profit;

Digitizing government: Seeking technologically driven improvements in efficiency and functioning of government;

Problem solving: Using OGD to meet specific challenges;

Social/public sector enterprise: Using OGD to provide services in/to the public sector

IMPLICATIONS

Data is not just for developers

Data changes the gatekeepers and the role of civic actors

Data supports innovation in public services

Data can lead to concerns of politics, power and justice being under-valued

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Biodigital 3D: offers a voluminous library of 3D anatomical models drawn from the National Institutes of Health

Visible Human project, with National Library of Medicine text to explain them

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Clear Health Costs: Source for finding health care prices. Its motto is "Free the knowledge. Everybody should know what stuff costs in health care.“

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Flatiron Oncology Cloud Flatiron Health, which uses data to accelerate cancer research. The startup recently raised $130 million in a round of funding led by Google Ventures. Flatiron uses real-time data from patient records to create "a data platform that provides the most comprehensive view of a patient's experience in the oncology office in real-time." The company plans to offer a wealth of data from millions of cases so that researchers, doctors, and patients can develop new treatments and make better decisions on cancer care.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Switzerland:

Pollutant emissions

Foreign Population

Crime in Switzerland

Wage Rates by Gender and education

Public Transportation Visualization

Professional qualifications

Monetary Policy

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

San Francisco: Crime Spotting Map

New York City: Targeting Illegal Building Conversions Inspections

Louisville: Restaurant Inspection Scores on Yelp

Albuquerque: Reducing Transit-Related 311 Calls - People calling about Transit issues in Albuquerque were usually waiting for a bus and wanting to know where it was right then. Making these transit datasets available saved about $180,000 in 2013 in calls to the 311 call center alone.

Socrata: Analyzes city mayors speeches and correlates with most pressing issues (jobs, infrastructure, budget, public safety etc.)

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Guardian Good GCSE Guide (UK): To help parents find and research local schools in England

Visualising your neighbourhood with Illustreets: The free Illustrates web app uses open data to build a dynamic, colourful visualisation of any neighbourhood in England

Chile: Vota Inteligente - To strengthen participatory democracy and reduce information asymmetries between Chilean citizens and their government. The different features and functionalities on Vota Inteligente led to several conversations with other organizations working on legislative transparency and government openness, and FCI (Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente) became a founding member of Poplus, a global community of developers to share knowledge and technology

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Kenya: Open Duka - Kenyan politicians to be more accountable, responsive and transparent, and citizens to make more conscious decisions in their everyday lives – such as when voting, land buying or job seeking

Uruguay: A Tu Servicio - A Tu Servicio is an online platform that aims to make it easier for citizens in Uruguay to view and compare information about their health care providers

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

South Africa: Going the Extra Mile (GEM) rewards citizens who participate in initiatives such as waste management, community clean-ups and vaccinations. The project aims to boost citizen engagement, build trust and establish meaningful links between government and citizens. (www.gemproject.org)

Users earn GEMs by doing community work, separating waste, planting trees etc. Users spend GEMs on mobile rewards including airtime, pre-paid electricity, data & movie tickets.

South Africa: Citizens are updated on the progress of application of identity books and identity documents through SMS service.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Indonesia: Reducing Maternal Mortality with SMS, to reduce the high maternal mortality rate of women. Using an SMS gateway, citizen requests for pregnancy services and information will be received and responded to with requests being documented and, finally, published online. It aims to reduce the current high rate of maternal mortality of 359 deaths per 100.000, ultimately to zero. (http://sinergantara.or.id/en/)

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Indonesia: ORBIT - A Geographic Information System that gives Indonesian citizens access to information regarding government funded projects.

Ghana:

CitizenEYE. An app created by a team of software developers to provide Ghanaian citizens with information about the oil and gas industry.

Ghana Petrol Watch. A mobile technology solution to deliver basic facts and figures associated with oil and gas exploration to Ghanaian citizens.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Pakistan: Bahawalpur Service Delivery Unit (BSDU), provided a mobile app that allows officials and citizens to monitor attendance by teachers and students at school. The information is aggregated online and made publicly accessible. The aim is to enable and motivate citizens to collect, analyze and disseminate service delivery data in order to drive performance and help effective decision making. (https://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/bahawalpur-service-delivery-unit-bsdu/)

Nepal: Nalibeli.org is an open platform with step-by-step information on how to access a range of govt. services. Local Interventions Group is working in the Terai and Hilly regions for smarter governance.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Tanzania: Children Engagement for Government Accountability – to increase child engagement in governmental budgeting and policy formulation in Mwanza City.

Kenya: The Mandera Times – A ‘watchdog’ newsletter focusing on monitoring the actions of officials with the aim of educating, empowering and motivating citizens to hold their leaders to account.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

SMS services portal of Jordan: Enhancing the quality and efficiency of governmental services. It provides citizens with two types of services: (i) push messages by governmental institutions and departments such as reminders and awareness campaigns; and (ii) pull messages that are sent by citizens as an SMS inquiry and are automatically responded to by the relevant governmental department.

Singapore: SMS text service for members of the deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired community to reach emergency services.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Sweden: SMSlivräddare, or SMSLifesaver: Citizen volunteers can enroll to receive an SMS text when there is a heart attack victim nearby, allowing trained citizens to reach the victim and provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The average response time of ambulance is eight minutes whereas SMS-livräddare-volunteers have proven to respond quicker and reach victims before ambulances in 54% of cases. Survival rates after cardiac arrest increased from 3% to nearly 11%, over the last decade.

Spain: Over 150 companies focused on selling services on top of open government data

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

FixMyStreet (UK) and SeeClickFix (US) are map-based citizen reporting platform that enables the public to report and track non-emergency related issues, via both web and mobile.

Bangladesh: Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) is using an SMS-based disaster warning system.

Lungisa: Citizens of Cape town, South Africa can report delivery problems with water, electricity and other public services. The problems will be reported to the appropriate authorities and resolved via SMS, USSD, Mxit, Web and Facebook.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Nest Finder: Accessing essential travel information while on the road

DigitalNZ: An API that enables users to find and query data from across NZ’s cultural, educational and government sectors (http://digitalnz.org), June 2015

Businesses have one-stop online service/shop for all government support and can complete their transaction with government digitally (www.beehive.govt.nz).

China: Citizen-led science projects to measure water quality

Solarize: Help people to understand the benefits of having their own solar or photovoltaic generation in Austria

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Mandi Trades: Location based Farm to Shop (F2S) trading platform for agricultural products in India. The system aims to empower farmers through alternative markets, wastage reduction, lower transport costs

Rainbow: An information exchange platform to assist farmers to make informed decisions through the entire life cycle of a crop through info sharing among farmers in India.

Help My City: Share & Solve the concerning issues in a city with citizens and organizations in India.

Apps: SMS and web based promotion of breast feeding in mothers, Postal Tariff Calculator, Export and Import Data, Guide to Hotels, MPs attendance data, Alerts for piped water supply, Open blood bank web portal, Online registration of job seekers in Madhya Pradesh, Railway Train Timetable, OpenCivic,

India Water Portal (IWP), National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG), IndianKanoon.org is a legal search engine (‘kanoon’ being the Hindustani word for law),

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Italy: Compass of Transparency

Haiti: Response and recovery with Sahana free and open disaster management system

Trinidad and Tobago: m-fisheries

National Environment Agency (NEA): Co-created several mobile applications with private sector partners through crowd sourcing ideas from the public to promote greater environment ownership and provide real time information on environmental conditions.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Budget Stories: Moldova-based NGO is working to release budgetary information in the form of infographics, creating visual stories behind the facts. A group of students in Moldova is combining different cartographic and geographic data to produce maps that will assist the government visualizing certain domestic challenges.

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Slovenia: I suggest to the government (predlagam.vladi.si)

Citizen consultation in Morocco

Center for Innovation on e-Government Development in Colombia

Agency for e-Government development in Uruguay

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Japan: Bridge Monitoring System: Based on the sensor network and Business Intelligence, Bridge Monitoring System detects strain of the bridge and constantly assesses its structural health of bridges.

IBM Smarter City: IBM Smarter Cities Challenge engagements all over the world are demonstrating how the right investments in infrastructure can introduce long-term efficiencies and dramatically transform a city's prospects for growth. It uses data from Administration, citizen engagement, economy, education and workforce, environment, public safety, social services, transportation and urban planning

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

Japan: Vehicle Information and Communication System(VICS) provides real-time traffic data to car-navigation system. The service is provided through public-private collaboration.

Yurekuru: Earthquake early warning system

OPEN DATA PROJECTS

IndianKanoon.org

To analyze crime in New Orleans

Influence of money in polities in USA

Lobbying in Europe – Hidden influence and privileged access (Source: TI)

Nigeria School Construction

Puerto Rico finance data

Oil and Gas drilling data

Mexico’s procurement process

DATA JOURNALISM

Gathering, interviewing and presenting based on data

Allows for the exploratory analysis for various newsworthy questions

Country specific demand:

Public safety, economic development, political

Expected Data:

Students leaving school, Road accident, crime, public tender databases, social data, business information, health database, medical information, housing data, and many more…

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