crowdsourcing the local data census
DESCRIPTION
This is the Local Data Census presentation for the Ghent Smart City workshop on 09/10/2014, describing our efforts to determine the datasets used for the Belgian Local Data Census.TRANSCRIPT
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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…
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
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 [email protected] 0032 476 66 27 77 openbelgium.be @PJPauwels