This presentation outlines the Milwaukee Data Initiative and it's current approach to bringing an open data initiative to Milwaukee. Intended audience is public, private and social sector professionals.
Building Real Time, Open-Source Tools for WikipediaFITC
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Building Real Time, Open-Source Tools for Wikipedia
with Rob Kenedi
Presented at FITC Toronto 2015
More info at www.fitc.ca
OVERVIEW
Wikipedia is one of the most frequently visited websites in the world. The vast online encyclopedia, editable by anyone, has become the go-to source for general information on any subject. Building user-friendly apps that people can actually use on top of Wikipedias massive dataset involves overcoming a number of challenges, but it can also be a lot of fun. Join Rob Kenedi, Entrepreneur In Residence at The Working Group (TWG) as he shares lessons learned in TWGs Lab building WikiWash, a free tool for journalists that helps them uncover spin and bias in Wikipedia.
OBJECTIVE
Learn how to build useful products using Wikipedias dataset.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Software developers, data journalists, product managers
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
What Wikipedia is, and how web applications work
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
How we built an open-source tool for journalists using Wikipedia
How to manage the massive amounts of data in Wikipedia
How to turn a non-technical pitch presentation into a working product that the client loves
How TWG labs treats its projects, products and prototypes and what happens to them once they launch
How WikiWash can be used to expose bias and spin on Wikipedia
This document discusses trends in innovation, including the sharing economy, big data, and social computing. It provides examples of how companies like Kodak and Instagram demonstrate how innovation is changing. The sharing economy is leveraging unused assets and network effects to create services. Big data is growing exponentially in terms of volume, variety, and velocity. Social computing uses enterprise 2.0 approaches to access micro-expertise within organizations. These trends are enabling new, data-driven business models and approaches to open innovation within large companies. Skills and processes are needed to design inclusive innovation processes and implement platforms that can monitor and evaluate these new approaches.
This document discusses the ethics of online service providers' transparency reports regarding government requests for user data. It analyzes transparency reports from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and Reddit. These reports provide varying levels of detail about the number and nature of government requests. The document notes Dropbox reported overreach from governments requesting data without legal basis. It also discusses advocacy groups supporting users' privacy and freedom of expression online, and the tensions between companies, governments and users regarding intermediary liability and government pressure on internet platforms.
Open Data: Barriers, Risks, and OpportunitiesSlim Turki, Dr.
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Despite the development of Open Data platforms, the wider deployment of Open Data still faces significant barriers. It requires identifying the obstacles that have prevented e-government bodies either from implementing an Open Data strategy or from ensuring its sustainability.
This paper presents the results of a study carried out between June and November 2012, in which we analyzed three cases of Open Data development through their platforms, in a medium size city (Rennes, France), a large city (Berlin, Germany), and at national level (UK). It aims to draw a clear typology of challenges, risks, limitations and barriers related to Open Data. Indeed the issues and constraints faced by re-users of public data differ from the ones encountered by the public data providers. Through the analysis of the experiences in opening data, we attempt to identify how barriers were overcome and how risks were managed. Beyond passionate debates in favor or against Open Data, we propose to consider the development of an Open Data initiative in terms of risks, contingency actions, and expected opportunities. We therefore present in this paper the risks to Open Data organized in 7 categories: (1) governance, (2) economic issues, (3) licenses and legal frameworks, (4) data characteristics, (5) metadata, (6) access, and (7) skills.
S辿bastien Martin 1, Muriel Foulonneau 2, Slim Turki 2, Madjid Ihadjadene 1
1 Universit辿 Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France
2 PRC Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Open data can help solve problems by engaging the broader community and including open components in government and community design. True open data follows eight principles: it is complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine readable, non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, and free to use. Open data has been used for policy making, advocacy, innovation, and more. Examples include funding data for schools, health maps, and medicine price registries. Open data can enable new business models and increase data literacy. It helps redefine development by focusing on solutions and benefits for people.
This document summarizes the launch of smart gigabit communities in Richardson, Texas, located in the Dallas metro area. Key details include:
- Richardson is home to the University of Texas at Dallas and over 500 high-tech companies located in the "Telecom Corridor" technology hub.
- Local partners include UT Dallas, Tech Titans business leadership group, and the Richardson Economic Development Partnership.
- A GENI rack will be located at the UT Dallas data center to support the smart gigabit initiative.
ITPedia is a public wiki focused on documenting projects without permission from those it represents. It aims to persuade people to use the wiki through free-form collaboration rather than structured taxonomies. The wiki answers questions about people's projects and relevant gear through an iterative ontology and existing data sources.
This document summarizes smart gigabit community initiatives in Lafayette, Louisiana. Lafayette has a fiber network covering 120,000 residents, paid for by public bonds. The document outlines two application ideas: 1) A next generation emergency operations center hosted by UL Lafayette to test crisis decision making architectures. It would transition from a physical to distributed network EOC. 2) A virtual crisis information sharing platform to improve network resilience and quality of service for first responders during disasters, using software defined networking and high-speed networks. Key local partners involved include the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the City of Lafayette, and local technology companies.
The document discusses digital futures and community ecosystems. It notes that data volumes are growing exponentially and open data provides opportunities for innovation. It outlines different ecosystems like natural, social, economic and digital ecosystems. The digital community ecosystem has many interconnected parts. Emerging technologies like social media, analytics, cloud computing and the internet of everything will impact digital futures. Open data fuels the development of intelligent communities. Sustainable digital communities require metrics, partnerships and leadership across sectors.
This document summarizes Flint Ignite, a smart gigabit community initiative in Flint, Michigan. It describes Flint's advanced networks that connect local educational institutions, as well as key local partners like Kettering University. It outlines two healthcare delivery applications - one that would provide virtual healthcare access to K-12 schools, and another called HealthSec that uses SDN to remotely monitor cardiac patients' health data. The document also lists cultural and research resources Flint has to offer other communities, such as a planetarium, library, mobile test network, and automotive research area.
European Economic and Social Committee on "Communicating Europe"cafebabel.com
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On 12th Nov ECOSOC organised a one day seminar on "[Communicating Europe: what role does civil society wish to play?|http://eesc.europa.eu/activities/press/events/2007-11-12_en.asp|en]" and which gathered around 150 communicators from across Europe.%%%
Daniel Feher ([Dialog 09|http://www.dialog09.org/|en]) and I moderated a workshop on "How to better reach the European Public? The Role of the Internet in communicating and consulting civil society organisations. I always enjoy these types of events because 1. you get to know new people 2. you share your ideas.
This document discusses applications for next-generation gigabit broadband networks and funding opportunities. It provides examples of applications that require high-speed, low-latency connectivity including real-time data visualization and cyberphysical interactions. It also outlines various sources of funding for application development projects, including federal agencies, foundations, and private sector organizations. Recommendations are provided for pursuing federal grants, emphasizing community engagement and leveraging partnerships. Common elements of successful community programs are identified, such as assembling an accelerator team and stimulating application development.
Tiki is an open source content management, collaboration, and social networking platform. It is used by many organizations for websites, knowledge bases, project coordination, and more. The company provides customization and support services for Tiki but depends on the open source community for ongoing development and infrastructure support. The business model keeps costs low through the open source model and generates ongoing revenue from customization, consulting, and support services. The ecosystem includes software developers, designers, hosting providers, and customers who use and contribute to Tiki.
This document proposes the creation of CATALOGUE, a global open data platform for transportation data. CATALOGUE would allow anyone to upload, access, and share open transportation data. It aims to provide a single location for accurate, up-to-date open transportation data through features like data validation, error checking, categorization, and real-time updates. CATALOGUE would be run by a non-profit foundation and open community to ensure open governance and access to its aggregation of worldwide transportation data and tools.
The Living Lab network in Southern Africa (LLiSA) brings together stakeholders like universities, industries, governments, and communities to collaboratively develop new ICT products and services through real-world testing. Key elements of Living Labs include being user-driven, taking place in real-life contexts, being multidisciplinary, and covering different domains to benefit communities. LLiSA aims to create capacity for Living Labs in Southern Africa, support pilot projects, and facilitate collaboration between developers, researchers, industries, and governments. Challenges include increasing skills, managing expectations, and ensuring sustainable business models and equitable benefit sharing.
Wikirate is a community platform that aims to provide transparent and clear information about companies' activities, impacts, and performance. It allows citizens to contribute and discuss articles on topics related to companies as well as rate companies using quantitative data and sources. The platform is still developing new features such as improved user profiles, voting on claims, multi-lingual support, and ratings of company content and performance. The goal is for Wikirate to serve as a transparent and user-powered knowledge base on company activities and issues.
Canadas Information Commissioners have adopted a resolution toward Open Government and part of the open government process is open access to public administrative, census, map and research data. A number of Canadian Cities, innovative government programs such as GeoConnections, forward thinking research funding such as International Polar Year have become OpenData cities, implemented data sharing infrastructures and fund data sharing science. Access to data are one part of the open government conversation, and it is argued that opendata bring us closer to more informed democratic deliberations on public policy.
SeamlessAccess is a coalition that aims to improve user experience and access to online resources through single sign-on authentication. It involves identity federation between institutions and publishers/service providers to enable seamless access to content when users are off campus. The goals are to improve the user experience of accessing resources, enable continued identity standards development, improve security response, and limit disruption from individual abuse. It requires institutions, libraries, publishers and service providers to implement SAML authentication standards to enable the single sign-on experience across participating platforms and services.
ESWC2010 "Linked Data: Now what?" Panel Discussion slidesS旦ren Auer
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This document discusses the achievements and challenges of linked open data (LOD). It outlines that LOD exposes and connects data on the semantic web using URIs and RDF. However, it faces challenges with coherence, quality, performance and usability. The document also lists achievements in extending the web of data, industrial uptake, and establishing LOD as a path for the semantic web. It proposes creating a network effect and applications for LOD in government and enterprise information integration.
Data portability and interoperability standards have advanced since the 1990s but still have limitations. The GDPR strengthened data portability rights in the EU in 2018 but implementation remains slow. Open issues include the exact scope of portable data and acceptable formats. The OpenXPort project aims to improve data portability using emerging JMAP standards for contacts and calendars. Widespread adoption of standards like JMAP could significantly improve cross-service data portability.
Academia lacks incentives for open data and software while industry has incentives, and a lack of infrastructure makes data not findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Funders' intent is unclear regarding responsibilities, ethics, ownership and security, but funders and publishers can address these impediments by establishing simple, harmonious guidelines for openness; compliance modes; uniform data and software citation; end-to-end infrastructures with awards; shared responsibility for infrastructure; and standards agreements. Current exemplars provide guidelines, metrics, policies, resources, projects, participatory approaches, and government programs.
This document discusses the rising tide of data in science and the opportunities and challenges it presents. It outlines how scientific breakthroughs are increasingly powered by advanced computing capabilities applied to massive datasets. Open sharing of research data allows for errors to be identified and theories to be supported, rejected or refined, improving reproducibility. However, a survey found that many scientists believe there is a reproducibility crisis. Maximizing the value of data requires making it FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). Examples provided demonstrate how open data sharing has benefited fields like epidemiology and agriculture.
This document discusses open government data and linked data. It begins with an introduction to open data and open government data, noting its benefits like transparency, releasing social and commercial value, and participatory governance. It then discusses the semantic web and linked data, explaining how linking data using URIs, RDF, and HTTP allows for a web of machine-understandable data. It provides examples of linked government data projects and emphasizes that while open data is a first step, linked data allows for greater integration and reuse of data.
This document discusses open data-driven innovation and smart cities. It begins by defining open data and how open data initiatives have helped launch businesses and new products. Examples are provided of how open data is used, such as by the World Bank to provide development data and eradicate poverty. The document then discusses how data can enable various types of innovation for goods/services, planning, operations, and marketing. Challenges and opportunities around open data-driven innovation in cities are also presented.
ITPedia is a public wiki focused on documenting projects without permission from those it represents. It aims to persuade people to use the wiki through free-form collaboration rather than structured taxonomies. The wiki answers questions about people's projects and relevant gear through an iterative ontology and existing data sources.
This document summarizes smart gigabit community initiatives in Lafayette, Louisiana. Lafayette has a fiber network covering 120,000 residents, paid for by public bonds. The document outlines two application ideas: 1) A next generation emergency operations center hosted by UL Lafayette to test crisis decision making architectures. It would transition from a physical to distributed network EOC. 2) A virtual crisis information sharing platform to improve network resilience and quality of service for first responders during disasters, using software defined networking and high-speed networks. Key local partners involved include the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the City of Lafayette, and local technology companies.
The document discusses digital futures and community ecosystems. It notes that data volumes are growing exponentially and open data provides opportunities for innovation. It outlines different ecosystems like natural, social, economic and digital ecosystems. The digital community ecosystem has many interconnected parts. Emerging technologies like social media, analytics, cloud computing and the internet of everything will impact digital futures. Open data fuels the development of intelligent communities. Sustainable digital communities require metrics, partnerships and leadership across sectors.
This document summarizes Flint Ignite, a smart gigabit community initiative in Flint, Michigan. It describes Flint's advanced networks that connect local educational institutions, as well as key local partners like Kettering University. It outlines two healthcare delivery applications - one that would provide virtual healthcare access to K-12 schools, and another called HealthSec that uses SDN to remotely monitor cardiac patients' health data. The document also lists cultural and research resources Flint has to offer other communities, such as a planetarium, library, mobile test network, and automotive research area.
European Economic and Social Committee on "Communicating Europe"cafebabel.com
油
On 12th Nov ECOSOC organised a one day seminar on "[Communicating Europe: what role does civil society wish to play?|http://eesc.europa.eu/activities/press/events/2007-11-12_en.asp|en]" and which gathered around 150 communicators from across Europe.%%%
Daniel Feher ([Dialog 09|http://www.dialog09.org/|en]) and I moderated a workshop on "How to better reach the European Public? The Role of the Internet in communicating and consulting civil society organisations. I always enjoy these types of events because 1. you get to know new people 2. you share your ideas.
This document discusses applications for next-generation gigabit broadband networks and funding opportunities. It provides examples of applications that require high-speed, low-latency connectivity including real-time data visualization and cyberphysical interactions. It also outlines various sources of funding for application development projects, including federal agencies, foundations, and private sector organizations. Recommendations are provided for pursuing federal grants, emphasizing community engagement and leveraging partnerships. Common elements of successful community programs are identified, such as assembling an accelerator team and stimulating application development.
Tiki is an open source content management, collaboration, and social networking platform. It is used by many organizations for websites, knowledge bases, project coordination, and more. The company provides customization and support services for Tiki but depends on the open source community for ongoing development and infrastructure support. The business model keeps costs low through the open source model and generates ongoing revenue from customization, consulting, and support services. The ecosystem includes software developers, designers, hosting providers, and customers who use and contribute to Tiki.
This document proposes the creation of CATALOGUE, a global open data platform for transportation data. CATALOGUE would allow anyone to upload, access, and share open transportation data. It aims to provide a single location for accurate, up-to-date open transportation data through features like data validation, error checking, categorization, and real-time updates. CATALOGUE would be run by a non-profit foundation and open community to ensure open governance and access to its aggregation of worldwide transportation data and tools.
The Living Lab network in Southern Africa (LLiSA) brings together stakeholders like universities, industries, governments, and communities to collaboratively develop new ICT products and services through real-world testing. Key elements of Living Labs include being user-driven, taking place in real-life contexts, being multidisciplinary, and covering different domains to benefit communities. LLiSA aims to create capacity for Living Labs in Southern Africa, support pilot projects, and facilitate collaboration between developers, researchers, industries, and governments. Challenges include increasing skills, managing expectations, and ensuring sustainable business models and equitable benefit sharing.
Wikirate is a community platform that aims to provide transparent and clear information about companies' activities, impacts, and performance. It allows citizens to contribute and discuss articles on topics related to companies as well as rate companies using quantitative data and sources. The platform is still developing new features such as improved user profiles, voting on claims, multi-lingual support, and ratings of company content and performance. The goal is for Wikirate to serve as a transparent and user-powered knowledge base on company activities and issues.
Canadas Information Commissioners have adopted a resolution toward Open Government and part of the open government process is open access to public administrative, census, map and research data. A number of Canadian Cities, innovative government programs such as GeoConnections, forward thinking research funding such as International Polar Year have become OpenData cities, implemented data sharing infrastructures and fund data sharing science. Access to data are one part of the open government conversation, and it is argued that opendata bring us closer to more informed democratic deliberations on public policy.
SeamlessAccess is a coalition that aims to improve user experience and access to online resources through single sign-on authentication. It involves identity federation between institutions and publishers/service providers to enable seamless access to content when users are off campus. The goals are to improve the user experience of accessing resources, enable continued identity standards development, improve security response, and limit disruption from individual abuse. It requires institutions, libraries, publishers and service providers to implement SAML authentication standards to enable the single sign-on experience across participating platforms and services.
ESWC2010 "Linked Data: Now what?" Panel Discussion slidesS旦ren Auer
油
This document discusses the achievements and challenges of linked open data (LOD). It outlines that LOD exposes and connects data on the semantic web using URIs and RDF. However, it faces challenges with coherence, quality, performance and usability. The document also lists achievements in extending the web of data, industrial uptake, and establishing LOD as a path for the semantic web. It proposes creating a network effect and applications for LOD in government and enterprise information integration.
Data portability and interoperability standards have advanced since the 1990s but still have limitations. The GDPR strengthened data portability rights in the EU in 2018 but implementation remains slow. Open issues include the exact scope of portable data and acceptable formats. The OpenXPort project aims to improve data portability using emerging JMAP standards for contacts and calendars. Widespread adoption of standards like JMAP could significantly improve cross-service data portability.
Academia lacks incentives for open data and software while industry has incentives, and a lack of infrastructure makes data not findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Funders' intent is unclear regarding responsibilities, ethics, ownership and security, but funders and publishers can address these impediments by establishing simple, harmonious guidelines for openness; compliance modes; uniform data and software citation; end-to-end infrastructures with awards; shared responsibility for infrastructure; and standards agreements. Current exemplars provide guidelines, metrics, policies, resources, projects, participatory approaches, and government programs.
This document discusses the rising tide of data in science and the opportunities and challenges it presents. It outlines how scientific breakthroughs are increasingly powered by advanced computing capabilities applied to massive datasets. Open sharing of research data allows for errors to be identified and theories to be supported, rejected or refined, improving reproducibility. However, a survey found that many scientists believe there is a reproducibility crisis. Maximizing the value of data requires making it FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). Examples provided demonstrate how open data sharing has benefited fields like epidemiology and agriculture.
This document discusses open government data and linked data. It begins with an introduction to open data and open government data, noting its benefits like transparency, releasing social and commercial value, and participatory governance. It then discusses the semantic web and linked data, explaining how linking data using URIs, RDF, and HTTP allows for a web of machine-understandable data. It provides examples of linked government data projects and emphasizes that while open data is a first step, linked data allows for greater integration and reuse of data.
This document discusses open data-driven innovation and smart cities. It begins by defining open data and how open data initiatives have helped launch businesses and new products. Examples are provided of how open data is used, such as by the World Bank to provide development data and eradicate poverty. The document then discusses how data can enable various types of innovation for goods/services, planning, operations, and marketing. Challenges and opportunities around open data-driven innovation in cities are also presented.
Open Data-Driven Innovation and Smart Cities_Open Data Business Model and Pat...Fatemeh Ahmadi
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This document discusses open data-driven innovation and smart cities. It begins by defining open data and how open data initiatives have helped launch businesses and new products. Examples are provided of how open data is used, such as by the World Bank to provide development data and eradicate poverty. The document then discusses how data can enable various types of innovation for goods/services, planning, operations, and marketing. Challenges and opportunities around open data-driven innovation in cities are also examined.
The document discusses content sharing and open APIs. It describes how knowledge intermediaries are currently siloed and fragmented, and how open APIs can help enable better collaboration and data sharing between organizations. It provides examples of open APIs using IDS data and outlines the process undertaken by IDS to develop open APIs, including workshops held to gather requirements and generate ideas. Next steps discussed include further developing partnership opportunities and evaluating options to maximize impact.
The document discusses how big data and machine learning are contributing to rapid changes in the world. It provides examples of how industries like lending, education, insurance, and retail have been disrupted by new business models enabled by technologies like mobile, social media, cloud computing, and the internet of things. The rise of startups exploiting big data through applications of machine learning like recommendation engines, image recognition, and autonomous vehicles is also covered. Finally, the document presents an approach for enterprises to harvest big data through a data platform that enables descriptive, advanced, and streaming analytics.
The document discusses the goals and challenges of eGovernment and outlines a vision for how semantic web technologies and open standards can help address those challenges. Specifically, it proposes that linked open government data and Web 3.0 approaches using data on the semantic web can increase efficiency, transparency, and opportunities for data reuse and mashups across government agencies and with citizens. W3C aims to work with governments to develop good practices and standards to realize this vision through its eGovernment Interest Group and potential future working group.
The document discusses the need for a "Data Commons" platform to foster sharing and analysis of biomedical big data. It describes how such a platform could treat research data, software and methods as digital assets within a shared virtual space. This would allow different parties to find, deposit, manage, share and reuse digital assets. The platform would form the basis of a digital ecosystem enabling interactions between producers and consumers of research outputs. It provides an overview of an NIH pilot project to test initial implementation of a Data Commons through co-locating data and tools on storage and computing infrastructure.
This document summarizes a case study about the development of MyAIDSNexus, a social network based community portal. Key points:
- MyAIDSNexus was created to enhance an existing AIDS portal by empowering individuals and facilitating participation.
- It offers a single access point for micro-services and makes few assumptions about user devices/connectivity.
- InfoAxon developed MyAIDSNexus using a white label knowledge management platform to provide features like social networking, content management and custom user groups.
- The solution was designed to be scalable, decentralized and accessible to users across diverse environments.
This document summarizes the Milwaukee Data Initiative, which aims to establish standards for data sharing and interoperability among technology entrepreneurs, businesses, and government agencies in Milwaukee. The initiative involves over 30 professionals and organizations and seeks to address problems like high costs of modifying information systems and separate funding requirements. By adopting common standards and advocating for open data policies, the initiative hopes to tap into Milwaukee's talent and create opportunities for startups to solve social problems with data-driven solutions.
AI and ML Series - Introduction to Generative AI and LLMs - Session 1DianaGray10
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Session 1
This first session will cover an introduction to Generative AI & harnessing the power of large language models. The following topics will be discussed:
Introduction to Generative AI & harnessing the power of large language models.
Whats generative AI & whats LLM.
How are we using it in our document understanding & communication mining models?
How to develop a trustworthy and unbiased AI model using LLM & GenAI.
Personal Intelligent Assistant
Speakers:
George Roth - AI Evangelist at UiPath
Sharon Palawandram - Senior Machine Learning Consultant @ Ashling Partners & UiPath MVP
Russel Alfeche - Technology Leader RPA @qBotica & UiPath MVP
Knowledge-Centric Paradigm: A New World of IT SolutionsEd Dodds
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The document discusses the potential of a knowledge-centric paradigm for government IT solutions. It outlines 10 realities of a knowledge-based world, and describes three approaches to knowledge-centric services: citizen-centric systems that know, advanced analytics systems that learn, and smart operations systems that reason. It also summarizes an agenda for a leadership symposium focusing on clarifying goals, mobilizing support and taking action for networked government.
Data is not consistent, sometimes searches or general interest in certain topics, say social media or other types of data experienced peaks and valleys. Data analysis techniques allow the data scientist to mine this type of unstable data and still draw meaningful conclusions from it.
Von Open Data zu Linked Open Data, M. Kaltenb旦ck, SWCMartin Kaltenb旦ck
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Pr辰sentation von Martin Kaltenb旦ck, Semantic Web Company am 28.11. 2011 bei der AGEO Jahresveranstaltung 2011 端ber den Weg von Open Data (Offenen Daten) zu Linked Open Data (Vernetzten offenen Daten), sowie 端ber das Potential und die Vorteile von Linked Open Data (LOD) im Bereich von Offenen Regierungsdaten (Open Government Data- OGD).
Gov 2.0 - eGovernment Social Media Platform Deployments and Future OpportunitiesNIC Inc | EGOV
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This document discusses the potential for governments to adopt "Gov 2.0" strategies that incorporate social media and collaboration tools modeled after successful Web 2.0 implementations in private enterprises. It outlines some initial Gov 2.0 projects but notes that broad enterprise-level implementations are still lacking. The document advocates that governments start by implementing basic Web 2.0 features like blogs, wikis and RSS feeds to provide more information to citizens and opportunities for feedback, and that policies will develop alongside implementation experiences over time. Web 2.0 is seen as able to improve data access, public participation and customer service for governments if adopted responsibly.
In many countries across the world, discussions, policies and developments are actively emerging around Open Data. It is believed that opening government data can have significant economic potential, generating new industries and innovations.
This presentation provides a short introduction to Open Data, with a focus on available public data from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) - http://statistics.gov.rw. The presentation also explore the roles played by the group of actors involved in strengthening the Open Data ecosystem in Rwanda and the steps involved in monetizing open data.
2. What is data and how is It used?
Facts, Statistics or Items of Information
-GIS
-Crime
-Economic
-Educational
-Social Trends
Data is used to identify problems, realize solutions and
affect positive change.
6. What is a Data Set?
A collection of data, usually presented in tabular form.
7. What is Open Data?
It 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.
8. What does open standard mean?
Interoperable among diverse internal and external platforms
and applications
Fully published and available royalty-free
Implemented by multiple vendors
Controlled by an open industry organization with a well-
defined inclusive process for evolution of the standard
9. What is MDI?
It's Milwaukee's Open Data Initiative.
MDI was founded by a collection of professionals
advocating for the adoption of standards for data
and information systems.
We want Milwaukee technology entrepreneurs, businesses,
community organizations and government to solve
problems and create opportunities with data.
10. MDI Principles
All systems must be interoperable
Systems should be extendable
Systems should not have barriers (to join or leave)
Vendors should cooperate on standards
Data systems should create entrepreneurial opportunities
11. Functional Specs for Sharing Data
FEATURES
Allow real-time or ad-hoc pull requests for data
Interoperable with other systems
No technical barriers to use or to stop using the system (no catches!)
System must be built without proprietary technology
DATA FORMATS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format)
Portable files: XML, KML, CSV
Accessible API: JSON, REST, Web Services
Accessible Feed: RSS, XML
AVAILABILITY
Machine Readable
Available at the user's request.
12. MDI Resources
MDI Example Notebook:
https://www.evernote.com/pub/esmartwave/mdiexamples
MDI Web Site and Blog:
http://milwaukeedata.org
MDI Group Forum (Google Group):
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/milwaukeedata
MDI Twitter Feed:
http://twitter.com/datamke
MDI Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/mkedata
13. What we need from you
Let's make it easy to Move Milwaukee Forward!
Join/Follow us.
Adopt standards.
Contribute data.
Build something.
Share your creation.
Attend Meetups.