Gov 2.0 Camp LA presentation on driving innovation through open government data. Focuses on Data.gov and the new Open Government Data Platform.

1. Driving Innovation with Open
Data
Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
April 21, 2012

2. Change is Happening…
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3. What Will You Do?
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4. People
People  Knowledge  Problems
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5. Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes
accountability
• Participation allows
people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages
cooperation within
government and with
industry
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6. Data.gov
• Open government flag
project for the
administration
• Provides instant access
to over 450,000 datasets
in easy to use formats
• Contributions from
UN, World Bank, and 172
agencies
• Encourage development
of innovative applications
• Drive innovation and
“A Strategy for American knowledge use across
Innovation” published
September 2009
the globe
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7. Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data
– and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and
citizens
2. Connect the community
– to allow collaboration through
social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure
– built on standards
4. Encourage developers
– to create apps that empower
people’s choices
5. Gather more data
– and connect more people
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8. Easy to Find Data
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9. The Power of Visualizations
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10. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers the tools and
raw data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov
Interest Group) and with RPI for
research in semantic web and open
linked data
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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11. Open Communities
Community
Health ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education ✓
Ocean ✓
Safety ✓
BusinessUSA ✓
Restore the Gulf ✓
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Research and Development
Manufacturing
Cities
Consumer
Human rights
+ many more…
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12. Data.gov for the Economy
• NOAA’s data helped build
weather-related business
• Weather forecasting
• The Weather Channel
• Weather.com
• When the Department of
Defense released satellite
data…private industry
created affordable GPS
devices!
• Opportunities for private
sector are limitless
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13. Health.Data.gov
Champion: Todd Park
US Chief Technology
Officer
Apps Forums
Blogs
Challenges
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14. Publicizing Data to Innovators
• Challenges and code‐a-
thons
(health2challenge.org)
• Many innovator “meetups”
and conferences
• Annual health data-
paloozas
• Over 139 applications
• 50 new businesses
• Thousands of lives
improved each day
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15. Creating Apps That Improve Lives:
Asthmapolis
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16. Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov
connects
innovators, indust
ry, academia, and
government at
federal, state, an
d local levels
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17. Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov
connects works
with challenges
across the nation
to integrate
federal data and
bring government
personnel to
code-a-thons
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18. Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform data
in understandable
ways to help people
make decisions
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19. Green Button
• Allow anyone to download
their historical energy use data
from their local utility
• Use apps to manage your
energy use to save money and
go green
• More at Energy.Data.gov
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20. Managing Open Data Tomorrow
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★
• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★
• Provide simple ways to visualize the data
• Create communities to understand and apply data
• Connect and collaborate with small
businesses, industry, and academia to drive innovation
• Develop open source open government data platform with
India for global use and further community development
• Share with others to understand global issues
Be the change you want to see in the world
– Ghandi
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21. US Open Government Action Plan
• On 20 September 2011, President
Obama announced at the UN
General Assembly, and updated last
week by Secretary of State Clinton
at the Open Government
Partnership
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source
platform
– Will allow any country to create open
data site
• Foster communities on Data.gov
– Health, energy, and law plus new
communities in education, research and
development, and public safety
• Launch International Space Apps
Competition
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22. NASA International Space Apps
• Happening today on 7 continents and in space!
• Launch International Space Apps Competition
– NASA and other space agencies will gather scientists and citizens
– Use data for global challenges: weather impacts on global economy
and depletion of ocean resources
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23. Open Government Platform
(OGPL)
• Open source solution base co-
developed by Governments of
India and US
– Kick started by India and US but
owned by the open source
community
– National Informatics Centre and
US Data.gov Teams
– Offered free via open source to
any city or nation
– Includes web site, data
management, communities, and
policy and case examples
Like OpenGovPlatform – More information
at:http://www.data.gov/opengovpl
on Facebook!
atform
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24. Open Gov Through Open Source
• Alpha code for OGPL available
at Github
• https://github.com/opengovtplatf
orm/opengovplatform-DMS/wiki
• US Data.gov will migrate to
OGPL later in 2012
• Coordinating with other open
data providers, platforms, and
communities, including
– W3C
– World Bank
– CKAN
– Open source developers world
wide
– …and more
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25. Open Data at Cities, Counties,
and States
Coming
soon…Cities.Data.g
ov!
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26. A Global Movement Has
Begun to Provide
Transparency and
Democratization of Data
Join us at the International
Open Government Data
Conference, July 10-12 at the
World Bank in Washington DC
• http://www.data.gov/communitie
s/conference
Don’t see your site?
Update via @usdatagov
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27. Let’s work together to set the
data free!
www.Data.Gov
@usdatagov
jholm@jpl.nasa.gov
@JeanneHolm
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