This document summarizes a presentation about citizen apps and open data given in Tunisia. It discusses different approaches to citizen apps, including apps created with no data, open data, and "guerilla-style" open data (scraping unstructured data from websites). Specific examples are given of apps created for Belgium's public transit systems by scraping their websites or developing mobile interfaces for their data. The presentation encourages developing similar apps in Tunisia by using available or scraping unstructured public data.
2. MICHAEL UYTTERSPROT
ANDROID DEVELOPER & TRAINER
BASED IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
PASSIONATE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVELLING AND CATS.
TWITTER.COM/EMICH
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3. BELGIUM : A COMPLICATED COUNTRY
11 MILLION INHABITANTS
3 LANGUAGES
3 COMMUNITIES
3 REGIONS
10 PROVINCES
9 PARLEMENTS (MORE OR LESS)
WAY TOO MANY MINISTERS
5 TIMES SMALL THAN TUNISIA
...BUT WITH GREAT THINGS !
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16. THEY ARE ALL APPS BASED ON MISSING OR BAD APPS
FOR PUBLIC SERVICES
COMMON POINT?
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17. CITIZEN APPS : DIFFERENT APPROACHES
NO DATA NEEDED OR AVAILABLE AT ALL
OPEN DATA
OPEN DATA, GUERILLA STYLE
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18. CROWDSOURCING
The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content
by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from
traditional employees or suppliers. (wikipedia)
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26. WHERE TO EMBARK ON THE METRO TO
EASE YOUR TRANSIT EXPERIENCE
CROWDSOURCING & CITIZEN APPS
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27. WHERE ARE THERE CONTROLS ON THE STIB NETWORK?
CROWDSOURCED VIA TWITTER & FACEBOOK
CROWDSOURCING & CITIZEN APPS
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28. NEW BRUSSELS GARBAGE
PICKUP SCHEDULE TOO
COMPLICATED.
APPS WITH NO DATA AT ALL
JAUNE OU BLEU
WHY NOT MAKE AN APP ?
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29. CITIZEN APPS : DIFFERENT APPROACHES
NO DATA NEEDED OR AVAILABLE AT ALL
OPEN DATA
OPEN DATA, GUERILLA STYLE
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30. OPEN DATA : WHAT IS IT ?
Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely
available to everyone to use and republish as they wish,
without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control. (wikipedia)
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31. GOOD OPEN DATA
CAN BE LINKED TO
IS IN A STANDARD STRUCTURED FORMAT
AVAILABLE AND CONSISTENT OVER TIME
TRACEABLE
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32. OPEN DATA BENEFITS
MINOR COST
COMMUNITY CAN DEVELOP APPS
TRANSPARENCY, IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES
LET OTHERS EXPERIMENT FOR YOU
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39. TRIMET PORTLAND
PORTLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM OPENED UP THEIR
DATA BEFORE MOBILE INTERNET WAS A BIG THING
TODAY THEY HAVE OVER 40 APPS CREATED BY
USERS FOR VARIOUS MOBILE PLATFORMS !
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51. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22746515@N02/
RISKS OF GUERILLA STYLE OPEN DATA
IRAIL : MOBILE FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE
FOR BELGIAN RAILWAY INFO
CEASE & DESIST LETTER BY SNCB TO IRAIL
... BUT THE BELGIAN MINISTER OF ICT DID NOT AGREE
AND SUPPORTED THE INITIATIVE
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