This document discusses open data and its opportunities for developers. It introduces open data, defines it as non-personal data released under an open license by organizations for public use. It outlines how open data can benefit governments, businesses, communities and individuals. The document encourages developers to use open data to improve skills, governance, decision making and build communities. It provides resources on getting involved in open data initiatives and tools to work with open data.
2. SUMMARY
? Who Am I ?
? What Is Open Data ?
? Open Data for Who/What ?
? What About Us, Devs ?
? Where To Start ?
3. Who Am I ?
? Name : Valdes T. NZALLI
? Contacts :
– Twitter : @vnzalli / @valdesjo77
– Mail : valdes@vnzalli.cm
? Blogs:
– https://blog.vnzalli.cm
– https://daviz.vnzalli.cm
? Work at :
? Involved in:
– Cameroon Cyber Security (@CamCyberSec)
– Mozilla Cameroon (@MozillaCameroon)
4. What Is Open Data ?
“Open data is non-personally
identifiable data produced in the
course of an organisation’s
ordinary business, which has
been released under an
unrestricted licence” -
http://linkedgov.org
5. What Is Open Data ?
Availability and Access
Re-use and Redistribution
Universal Participation
Interoperability
6. Open Data for Who/What ?
Governments
Businesses
Communities
People
7. What About Us, Devs ?
Improve
Governance
? Take our public Servants accountable
? Follow up Public Investments
Improve Our
Skills
? Learn new Techno
? Polish our resume
Make Better
Decisions
? Use datasets shared by others
? (Big) Data Analytics
Build
Communities
? Sharing Our Datasets
? Provide documented API
8. Where To Start ?
Get Involved in
#OpenData
initiatives
Learn the way to
Open your Data
Get Hands on
Open Data tools