11. Sitting between the Technical Teams and the Business Teams, translating and relating between them..
12. With Plenty of SOAP and REST....Don’t bother me with your ideas now, I’ve got a job to do!
13. I live in Naas… NAAS Network as a Service Used to be a Nice place to shop!
14. So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government 1990s: lCT expectedto make government more transparent, efficient and user oriented 2005+: disillusion as bureaucracy still in existence Can Cloud Help? Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet
23. Open is forcing Radical Change With or Without the Owners / Shareholders
24. It is all about the Data 2010 Spend on Spatial data and Software in the USA - IDC
25. Issues Data Harvesting How / Why does data get into your system Position, accuracy, improvement. Data Management How do we manage our data Do we have to capture data more than once Geo Data Costs of collection Costs of Management Quality Data Quality If we can’t trust the data to Share it, how do we use it to make decisions?
26. Data Standards Most Adopting Standards from their software Supplier. Have to move away from this position! Open Standards
32. Why Open Data? More information might lead to more informed and better decisions – The Right to Knowledge… Higher Quality? Open Source – More Eyes – Better Systems… Higher degree of effectiveness & efficiency Strengthen trust in establishment Leverage benefits of peer production New business models
33. Why Not? Loss of control & power? Undermining of statutory Powers Loss of revenues to existing business by threatening their established business models Only those with the Social Tools can benefit? Fear of the unknown
34. Opportunities Apps Maps Community Based Information The power of Combining Data Sets
36. FixMyStreet Programme for Government In local services, we will establish a website – www.fixmystreet.ie – to assist residents in reporting problems with street lighting, drainage, graffiti, waste collection and road and path maintenance in their neighbourhoods, with a guarantee that local officials will respond within two working days.
37. Principles of FixMyStreet Digitise everything Once. Dynamic Data Capture Open data Open source Reduce the Barriers to Adoption Social Media is the Glue There can only be one fixmystreets One Front End More than one Back End? Taxonomy – We all call things the same
59. Architecture Model for Open Five level saturation model by Tim Berners-Lee ★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence ★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel) ★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff ★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context