Open Data for Health of Natural Capital

Enhancing the health of our Natural Capital with Open Data

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

November 15, 2012.

Latornell 2012 - Enhancing health of our Natural Capital with Open Data

• Acknowledgements …. big thank you to the following folks for input and support

– Latornell Organizing Committee and volunteer teams– Don Pearson and Chris Wilkinson, Conservation

Ontario– David Suzuki Foundation– Open Data community

• Presentation will on www.slideshare.net/jurykonga

Acknowledgements

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Title slide photo credits: © Jury Konga

Jury KongaOpen by Design TM

http://www.slideshare.net/jurykonga


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Overview

• Open Data – defined with context

• Open Data Current State

• Community Wellness & State of our Natural Capital

• Moving forward Jury KongaOpen by Design TM


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A Citizens Driven Priority View

Data is essential… irrespective of domain!Jury KongaOpen by Design TM

Source: Suzanne Long from Toronto ChangeCamp 2009


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Open Data- the new reality

• Starting point • Roots in Freedom of Information legislation

- oldest identified with Sweden in 1766;- U.S.A. 1966;- Canada FOI as well as Privacy Act; 1983; - Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1990

• More recently, Open Data seen as foundational component of Open Government• focuses on citizen engagement, transparency,

accountability, collaboration and innovation



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Open Data- the new reality

• Early in the “new era” of open data

• Gaining acceptance & momentum

• How - similar approach but …

unique to each organization



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Open Government Framework 2.0


• Core components– Open Data is

foundational

• “Open Hub”: C3

• Supporting Infrastructure

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement

CommunityEngagement

Open Hub: C3

• Commons

• Communication

• Collaboration

Open Innovation

Open Data

Open Knowledge

Open Decisions

Open EconomicsSupporting Infrastructure

• Data• Financial &

Human Resources

• Policy & Standards

• TechnologyLeadership & Governance

Version 2 of 2010 Open Government Framework


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This is

NOT

Open Data


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Defining Open Data


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

opendefinition.org/

Open Data is a foundational component for Open Government and focuses on freely making public data available in a usable format for all to re-use and add value for the benefit of citizens.


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Discoverable

MachineReadable

Open Data Attributes

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UseReUse


MinimalAttribution

Redistribute


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Current State- A Global View … it’s pervasive


Over 55 participating countries

Over 189 Open Data portals


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Current State- National & Provincial Level



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Current State- the Ontario Municipal scene

Others in planning & implementation stages



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Open Data Value Proposition- Analytics for Community Improvements

http://vimeo.com/theacademy/opengovernment Jury KongaOpen by Design TM

http://vimeo.com/theacademy/opengovernment


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Open Data Value Proposition- Re-Use of Data via Applications

• BC Apps 4 Climate Action

• App Winner: Waterly• Tracks recent rainfall

near your home • Notifies by email when

you don't need to water your lawn

• No more need to water just because it is your watering day

• Benefits citizens, the community and mother nature

Created by http://www.dynamic-solutions.com/ Jury KongaOpen by Design TM

http://www.dynamic-solutions.com/




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Open Data Value Proposition- Re-Use of Data via Applications

Thanks to Herb Lainchbury, Open Data BC for referenceJury KongaOpen by Design TM

Community Driven and Supplied Solutionshttp://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html

http://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html

http://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html


• Dynamic visualization based on neighbourhoods

• User control over well-being indicators & weighting

• Option to download data for re-use !

• New features on the way

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Open Data Value Proposition- Visualization + Data


Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Researchhttp://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/

http://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/

http://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/


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Measuring our Community Wellness- FCM Quality of Life Reporting System



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http://ciw.ca/reports/en/History/Indicators_of_Quality_of_Life_in_Canada.sflb.pdf

http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/CompositeIndex.html

Measuring our Community Wellness- Canadian Index of Wellness(CIW)

Indicators Circa 2001 Composite Index

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Measuring our Environmental Wellbeing

• Parameters are from Canadian Index of Wellbeing

• Overarching: Air, Land and Water – are there parameters missing?

• How well are we set up to collaborate on this?


http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/DomainsOfWellbeing/Environment.html




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Measuring our Natural Capital Health

• Ecological “footprint exceeded the Earth’s biocapacity – the area of land and productive oceans actually available to produce renewable resources and absorb CO2 emissions

• Living Planet Index:- 28% since 1970

• Stats circa 2008 - we need real-time data



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Measuring the Health of our Natural Capital


“The vision of the Natural Capital Project is a world in which people, governments, and corporations recognize the values of natural capital – embodied in Earth's lands, waters and biodiversity – in supporting human well-being, and routinely incorporate these values into decision-making.”

Standardized Science for Secure WaterScience Chronicles August 6th, 2012

Are There Too Many People on the Planet?Science Chronicles August 6th, 2012

http://www.conservationgateway.org/News/Pages/are-there-too-many-people.aspx

http://www.conservationgateway.org/News/Pages/are-there-too-many-people.aspx


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Issues, Challenges, Metrics



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Issues, Challenges, Metrics

• Key issues via David Suzuki Foundation

• With our natural and built systems – everything is connected to everything

• How do we measure our overall health or wellbeing?

Climate Change

Oceans

Wildlife and Habitat

Freshwater


Health


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Moving Forward …- what’s our Current State

• In local government, there is a “hard” infrastructure deficit in Canada of $123B (2007) & requires attention

• What’s Canada’s Natural Capital/Ecosystem deficit?- “Harder to peg” … need agreed to standards

• Need to open data, standardize process and analyse the data to derive a current state assessment at local, provincial, national and global scales … set goals & action plan to address



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Moving forward- World Wide Environmental Sensor Web


Provincial Government

MunicipalGovernment

Conservation Authorities Universities

NGO Researchers

FederalGovernment

BIG Environmental Data Ontario -> EarthBIG Environmental

Data Ontario -> Earth

… Replicate for every jurisdiction

… real time feeds

Citizens

Community Groups


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Moving forward- leverage what already Exists


Enhanced coordination & data integration will benefit the community


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Moving forward- leverage Resources already in Place


Enhanced coordination & resource sharing will benefit the community


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Government

NGO

PrivateAcademia

Citizens & Community Groups

Moving forward … as an Inclusive Community

Need to leverage ourCommunity Intellectual Capitaland resources



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Moving forward – Create Collaborative teams


“Humans are fundamentally dependent on ecosystems for survival, yet our awareness and understanding of this critical connection is fragmented. Our health and well-being are affected by the quality of our natural environment: it both supports and impacts health. Both individual species and the health of the public flourish when they have access to clear air, clean water and productive soil.”

“There is an as-yet-untapped community of practice that is committed to shedding light on the links between ecology and health in our society.” Source: www.conservationontario.ca/NESH/Watershed_Health_FINAL.pdf

http://www.conservationontario.ca/NESH/Watershed_Health_FINAL.pdf


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Environment & Conservation

Land Use Planning

Infrastructure Management

Economic Development

Community & Health Services

Moving forward … with collaborative sectors

Leverage our Sectoral Intellectual Capitaland resources including …



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Moving forward … with inter-jurisdictional collaboration


Open Data Ontario Open Data CO ?

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Moving forward …Open Data Maturity Model

1 Startup

2 Data Catalog

3 Open Data Portal

4 Enterprise Open Data

5 Global Integration

Five Phases of Open Data

Evolutionary withinInfo Management Best Practices



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Concluding thoughts …. 1

• Open Data has become an imperative – Make it a community and corporate Policy

Open Data + Integrated Community Analyses =


Analyses

Community

Integrated Enhanced Decision Making

& Policy

Development(& MUCH more)

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Concluding thoughts …. 2

• Common Baseline : Develop a local -> Provincial -> National -> Global Natural Capital/Ecosystem Wellbeing index


Common ParametersGlobal

National

Provincial

Local

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Concluding thoughts …. 3• Collaboration is essential & benefits all

Need to optimize our resources – physical, financial and intellectual capital


Source: Jury Konga, “Collaboration 2.0- Leveraging Today’s Technology for Tomorrow’s Challenges”


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Concluding thought

• We need to start now!

… the well-being of our natural capital requires it

“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” and Collaborate Large


© Jury Konga © Jury Konga © Jury Konga © Jury Konga

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

[email protected] @jkongaSkype jury.konga

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