Aug 2011 Mark Gayler magayler@microsoft.com Open Software Evangelist Microsoft Corp

Aug 2011 Mark Gayler magayler@microsoft.com Open Software Evangelist Microsoft Corp

What is Open Government and Open Data? Open Data around the World Open Data Technology Open Data and Innovation Q&A

Government initiative(s) to promote transparency, public participation and collaboration Global initiatives Europe, Americas, etc. Common Principles: Transparency to enable greater accountability, efficiency, and economic opportunity by making government data and operations more open. Participation to create early and effective opportunities to drive greater and more diverse expertise into government decision making. Collaboration to generate new ideas for solving problems by fostering cooperation across government departments, across levels of government, and with the public Gov 2.0 = Platform for Open Government.

Data generated by government organizations made available to the Public free of restriction (issued with EULA) Timely, accessible, open format Low-cost, generates more value than the data itself Stimulates community development and citizen participation is machine-readable for reuse by developers "is not personally identifiable information about individuals. It does not have privacy issues associated with it. And it does not include military or state secrets." Tim Berners-Lee, 2010

100+ Projects worldwide USA, UK, EU, APAC Driven by Central Government E.g. USA, UK Driven by Local Government E.g. Canada ~40 Cities in North America

Open Data Pioneers First Open Data Catalog - http://data.octo.dc.gov/ Data available in open formats DC App Store http://appstore.dc.gov

www.appsfordemocracy.org The first edition of Apps for Democracy yielded 47 web, iphone and Facebook apps in 30 days - a $2,300,000 value to Washington DC at a cost of $50,000

Developed by Public Community developers Local citizens Often called Mash-Ups Typically utilize mapping capabilities Often use GPS and mobile capabilities Often utilize crowdsourcing Open data protocols E.g. KML, XML, RSS Often free and open toolsets... PHP, MySQL, MediaWiki, Python etc.

Data on the go Timeliness Location relevance Mobility Social Networking Washington DC - Stumble Safely Vancouver VanTrash Collections reminder service

Cloud inherently open Low-cost Minimal infrastructure impact Fast time-to-market Scalable based on demand

Runtimes & Services Windows Azure SDKs AppFabric SDKs Windows Azure Command-line Tool for Tools for Windows Azure http:// odata XML AtomPub REST RSS Web Services

Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) Cloud Computing Application Runs on Windows Azure OGDI Data Site - http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net/ Open Application OGDI Source code is free and customizable with Starter Kit via www.codeplex.com code that can be used to publish data on the Internet in a Web-friendly format with easy-to-use, open API's. API s can be accessed from Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, mapping web sites, etc. Windows Azure Services Platform - will carry storage and transaction charges depending on usage

http://www.eyeonearth.eu/ Global observatory for environmental factors Air and Water Quality Combines Gov statistics with public feedback Interactive, 2-way communications with ratings

http://miami311.cloudapp.net Allows citizens to report and track nonemergency incidents Combines mapping with Cloud

Incorporates Cloud, mapping, social networking and iphone ODAF Open Source on Codeplex

Before, it would have required them to go call the city and find out who the right person is and ask if they could get the data sets, which maybe they would have gotten, but maybe not. Whereas now, they're working on this study and they can just download the data sets and they can create a report that helps advance this debate both for councillors and for ordinary citizens. We've dramatically lowered the transaction cost to getting a piece of work like this done."

Centre for Digital Media

http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co http://www.igac.gov.co

* Star for putting data on the Web at all, with an open license. E.g. Zip files and PDFs get 1 star. ** Stars if it's machine-readable e.g. Excel. *** Stars for machine-readable, non-proprietary formats e.g. CSV or XML. **** Stars if the data uses URL for identification. ***** Stars when data is linked to other data for context. *Tim Berners-Lee Gov 2.0 Expo, 2010