crowdsourcing the local data census

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Crowdsourcing the LOCAL DATA CENSUS (and through that hopefully stimulate smart and open cities in Belgium)

Open Definition“Open means anyone can freely

access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).”

— http://opendefinition.org/

Smart City DefinitionA city can be defined as ‘smart’ when investments in human and

social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic

development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory action

and engagement. (Caragliu et al. 2009). To Gildo Seisdedos Domínguez, the smart city concept essentially means

efficiency. But efficiency based on the intelligent management and integrated ICTs, and active citizen participation. Then

implies a new kind of governance, genuine citizen involvement in public policy.

— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city

Chicken vs. egg Local Open Data vs. Citizen Developers

To stimulate citizen development we need cities with Open Data Hackathons / Data Dives / Etc…

To stimulate cities having Open Data we need citizen developers Data stories / Local Data Census / Etc…

Local Data Census

— http://gb-city.census.okfn.org/

Conditions of Local Data Census!• Data exists • It’s Digital • It’s publicly available • It’s free of charge • It’s online (URL) • It’s machine readable • It’s available in bulk • It’s openly licensed • It’s up-to-date

Problem

These are not the datasets you are

looking for

You must find your own balance of

datasets

Process

-Public servants -Open Data Experts

-Smart Citizens

Who knows which Open Datasets are needed in a smart city?

Solution? 1. Host a live event to start the discussion.!!

2. Host an online Wiki Survey. !!

3. Finalise the discussion within our Open Belgium community!

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4. Implement this final list of datasets (±15) and start incentivising cities and open data enthusiasts to add datasets

Live Event

Before we started:!6 topics

15 standard datasets !

one hour later: !8 topics

+environment +infrastructure

26 datasets

+20 people

Online public consultation

TEXT

—Pairwise voting by http://allourideas.org/

Results1500 votes, 8 new dataset suggestions, anonymous ranking.

— http://openbelgium.be/2014/09/results-of-wiki-survey-and-final-steps/

Involve our ambassadors

• If these suggested datasets are found at local governments!• Regardless of the size (city or small municipality)!• Regardless of location within Belgium (regional differences)!• With a good mix of easy and hard to obtain datasets!• And a good mix between the different subjects or categories

Because we still needed to determine the top 15 We needed to know:

Involve our Canambassadors

Is it available

in the municipal

ity?

Can we ask this from all

municipality?

Final Stage

Invite all cities and open data enthousiasts to add their open data efforts onto the Belgian Local Data Census.

Future? Open Belgium Barometer of local, regional and federal open data efforts

— http://theodi.github.io/open-data-barometer-viz/

First Conclusions about our crowdsourcing efforts

It takes a while to :!• give shape to this process • go through the whole process

But at the end you have:!• relevant list of datasets • better accountability • bigger awareness

Questions?

Extra information !http://census.okfn.org/

http://openbelgium.be/2014/09/results-of-wiki-survey-and-final-steps/

http://openbelgium.be/2014/08/choose-local-open-data-with-us/

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Contact Information!pieter-jan.pauwels@okfn.org 0032 476 66 27 77 openbelgium.be @PJPauwels