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Open Data: How it is leading
IT Meet 2013
Kathmandu University
Prakash Neupane
Nepal

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Background
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History

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Population Census in Nepal
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Though no historical record is available regarding any population census in the past, yet
counting of houses was practiced prior to the Lichhavi period. The existence of `Guthis'
(Co-operative Societies) in the Kathmandu Valley, which sought help from each and every
household in time and need is the clear indication of such practice.
After the Anglo-Nepal peace treaty of 1816 and the subsequent demarcation of Nepal's
boundary with India, the then Government seems to have maintained records of the
number of houses in different districts.
At the second decade of the 19th century, on the basis of the information on number of
houses, provided by an official of the Nepalese Government, Fraser estimated the
population of Nepal as 3,661,200.
[Imagine the data of those time, how they collected, how much time it took to collect it,
how much time they need to process]

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UK Census 1801

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The Hollerith Tabulator [US 1980 Census]

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An IBM 1960

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where we are now
Revolution is always driven by
necessity/complexity

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Government is opening Data

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It's not just the Government
Companies, Communities and International Organizations are
also opening data

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What do we mean by open?

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A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse,
and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and/or sharealike.” - OpenDefinition.org

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Open Data

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Public Data

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Open Data
PublicFormat

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Machine Readable Format
Open Data
PublicFormat

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Accessible
Public Data

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What means Open Data?
Open data involves
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the proactive disclosure of information;
the internet being the primary medium for such disclosure;
information being made available for access and for re­use free of
charge and;
information being made available in a machine­readable format to
enable computer­based re­use.

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Is it means all data can be open?
Transport, Geodata, Statistics, Budget, Election, …...
Key point: Non­Personal Data!

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Why Open Data
Innovation, Efficiency and Transparency

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Why Open Data
The Many Mind Principle
The best thing to do with your data will be
thought of by someone else

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Why Open Data
Fixing is Faster with Open Data
To many eyes all bugs are shallow

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Why Open Data
scaling
Weaving Data Together
Componentize
Humpty Dumpty Together

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Open data is fashionable. Developers and hackers are making
smartphone apps based on datasets held by the public sector, and
activists are discovering the value of Open Data for defending their
causes.

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openspending
openstreetmap

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US Gov's Open Data
UK Gov's Open Data

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Who are the
Open Knowledge Foundation?

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We are a global movement to open up knowledge around the
world and see it used and useful.
We bring together a diverse community, building a network of
individuals and organizations, founded on key principles.
We create change by educating, empowering, evangelising
and making.
We promote open access, open content, and open data,
and the public domain.

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Who can join?
Anyone – no special restriction on sector, racial, technical etc
How?
Join us in Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Knowledge-Foundation-Network-Ne
Twitter:
https://www.twitter.com/nprkshn
Group email:
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-np
Website:
http://np.okfn.org

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We want to see “open by default” in DNA of knowledge society

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References:
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Dr. Vidya Bir Singh Kansakar, Associate Research Officer , Population Censuses of Nepal
and The Problems of Data Analysis
Rufus Pullok, Open Data What Why and How,
http://assets.okfn.org/files/talks/republica_open_data_20110413/

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Thanks
Prakash Neupane
Ambassador, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal
Fellow, Shuttleworth Foundation
9849083301
nprkshn@gmail.com
www.prakashneupane.com.np