Tapio Nurminen's presentation @ Open Forum event in Helsinki 1 Oct 2010.

1. Utilizing Open Data Commercially
01.10.2010
Tapio Nurminen
www.floapps.com

2. Flo Apps Ltd?
consultancy and implementation of modern web technologies
won Apps For Democracy Finland 2009 with 'Nomen est omen' (www.
tietokannat.fi/lab/nomen.php)
currently working on a Linked Data project for Danceinfo Finland

3. Agenda
how will Open Data affect different business fields?

5. Residence, marketing, consumption
Dwellings in Council Tax Bands F, G and H (maptube.org/map.aspx?
s=DBHFGkkWRcsKExg2yGbAp8HAp0TAoRnd)
ASBOrometer (www.asborometer.com)
school performance can be tracked more closely (education.com)
traffic optimisation
may influence people's decisions on where to live
helps target right geographical areas

6. Energy / Music / Health
energy consumption (private and public) data online for re-use
last.fm statistics (www.last.fm)

7. Media
anyone can be(come) a journalist
"Data Driven Journalism" (www.slideshare.net/jwyg/jonathan-gray-
ejc)
tip: tabular data should always be published online for re-use to bring
more attention

8. Medicine
sharing information helps find solutions more quickly (blog.okfn.
org/2010/09/01/the-power-of-open-data/)

9. Society
expenditure can be tracked (www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org)
bund.offenerhaushalt.de
UK: all new central g'ment contracts published in full from Jan 2011
(www.number10.gov.uk/news/statements-and-
articles/2010/05/letter-to-government-departments-on-opening-up-
data-51204)

10. IT
new applications
data expertise
data aggregation + redistribution
data visualization
API's and Open Data enable smaller firms to succeed too

12. Some like it open
distributing data and knowledge develops public trust into a company
New York Times (data.nytimes.com/)
Google (www.google.com/transparencyreport/)
we could be the Big Brother together: www.topiikki.
fi/debatti/nayta/476/Valvo%20minua,%20Isoveli/
Journalisti: "A-lehdet vaatii freelance-työntekijöitä salaamaan
palkkionsa"

13. Want to hear more?
we offer consultancy on Web 3.0 and how it might help your business
nice summary: www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7963311/10-ways-
data-is-changing-how-we-live.html

14. Bottomline
"it is the unexpected re-use of information which is the value added by
the web" - Sir Tim Berners-Lee

15. Thank you!
tapio.nurminen@floapps.com
twitter.com/TapioNurminen