open government: policy,technology, and community in the us & canada
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Keynote Presentation to the OpenIsland OpenGov conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland focusing on the confluence of interests and energy between the open government, open data and open source software communities.TRANSCRIPT
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Open Government 2011Policy,Technology, and Community
in the US & Canada
Presented to the opengov & e -par t i c i pa t ionConference on September 22, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Deborah BryantPublic Sector Communities Manager
Oregon State University Open Source Lab
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CitizenAdvocates
Civil Sponsors
AcademiaIndustry*
PolicyMakers
OpenGov Ecosystem
*entrepreneurs
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Open Analog
Policy Frameworks Exist for Open Gov at national and local levels
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Open + Technology
sunlightfoundation.com
est. 2009
est. 2006
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Motivators to Open Gov - Gov view
• Growing Public Expectation
• Economic Downturn; citizen empowerment to self serve (DIY - Do it Yourself Movement)
• Political Caché
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Federal and StateInspiration
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Open Data Cities
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Citizen initiative: A serious heat-wave
inspired realtime use of data for public places to
cool off.
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Burning Question? call 311
Burning Building? call 911
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Open Data Challenges • Uptake of “donated” applications (apps)
• Concerns by government “data owners”
• do not envision the data as useful if released
• inadequate time to ensure data is updated to meet public expectations
• unintended consequences (wrong info released in wrong hands)
• Where data is an existing revenue source for an agency (provincial issue)
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Variants: US Open Gov Initiativescode • democratic process
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
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Industry Participation
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“"There's money to be made out of the billions of data points, there's also money to be made out of the personal service points," (a corporate official) said. He confessed he had no answers as to how to do this.””
May 2010 The Register article entitled “Data Gold Rush in Silicon Valley”
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D.C. Entrepreneurs
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Open meets Open
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Why Open Source & OpenGov
• Shared values
• openness
• transparency
• meritocracy of ideas
• at the core, in the public interest
• Right tools for the job
• highly available
• affordable
• open standards + open source = interoperability
Good cultural fit.
• Study shows On-line community members are more engaged
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Survey of Open Gov Orgs
40%
40%
20%
Non-ProfitGrass Rootsother
Demographic(all U.S)
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Informal Survey of Open Gov Orgs
Yes No
100%
Use OSS in operations
75%
25%
Yes No
Have OSS tech community members
volunteering
100%
Yes No
Use OSS in their mission
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US OpenGov Take-Aways
• Open Government thrives where citizen interest is met with public sector support, and accelerates when open source innovation is applied.
• The open source community can be (may already be) an asset to any region.
• Commitments on some level from government (funding, leadership) must be made for initiatives to succeed.
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For Further InformationDeborah Bryant
Public Sector Communities Manager
Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @debbryant
Skype: bryantdeb
irc: debz0r
Web Site Information:
The Open Source Lab: osuosl.org
The Government Open Source Conference: goscon.org
Professional blog: bryantsblog.com
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Supplemental Materials
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OSU Open Source Lab
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Open Source Lab (OSL)
• The OSL is a unique facility housed within the Oregon State University administrative computing facilities.
• The OSL data center provides platform stability and support for many of the world’s largest community-based Open Source applications
• Host over 140 servers, 40 major projects including Mozilla, Apache, OpenOffice, OLPC, Linux Foundation, Drupal
• It is a renown global resource, distributing open source software (millions of downloads a day)
• OSL added its Public Sector program in 2005 and created the Government Open Source Conference
• www.osuosl.org
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Open Source Educational Resource for Government
• Education & Discussion for Senior Public Sector Information Technology Management
• Brings together public and private sectors
• Produced by OSU OSL : www.goscon.org
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Business Ops • Custom Software Development
• Staff Augmentation
• Software as a Service
• Technical training
• Workshops and events (including public code sprints and “barcamps”
• Creative agency engagement including social media/staff training