Open Data- for Conservation & Community Good
Presented byJury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group
• You have homework! Review this presentation onwww.slideshare.net/jurykonga and provide feedback ….
• If tweeting; I’m @jkonga consider following hashtags:#latornell11 #opendata #opengov #openscience #conservation #collaboration #innovation
• Acknowledgements …. big thank you to the following folks for feedback- Don Pearson and Chris Wilkinson, Conservation Ontario- Tracey Lauriault, Researcher/PhD Candidate, Carleton University- Harvey Low, City of Toronto- Tracey Steele, Town of Richmond Hill- Michelle Molnar, David Suzuki Foundation- Herb Lainchbury, Open Data BC
Housekeeping
2
3
Visualizing the Latornell 2011 Program
This CONCERNS me!
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
4
A Citizens Driven Priority View
Data is essential… irrespective of domain!Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Source: Suzanne Long from Toronto ChangeCamp 2009
5
Context: Open Government Framework
• Leadership & Governance
• Policy & Standards• Technology
StakeholderEngagement Open Data Collaboration Innovation
Framework Core Components
Framework Supporting Infrastructure
Data Human & Financial
Resources
Adapted from Municipal Open Government Framework, June 2011Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
6
Open Data- Community Driven Principles (circa 2010)
Completeness
Primacy
Timeliness
Ease of Physical and Electronic Access
Permanence6
10 Principles for Opening Up Government Informationhttp://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/
Machine readability
Non- discrimination
Use of commonly owned standards
Licensing
Usage costs
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
7
Open Government Data Current State- Where in the World
7
http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
8
Open Government Data Current State- From Local to Global
8Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
9
Open Data Value Proposition- Analytics for Community Improvements
http://vimeo.com/theacademy/opengovernment Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
10
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
11
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
• Hans Rosling’s Gapminder App
• Raw data input from simple table
• Animation to simplify understanding of temporal data
12
Open Data Value Proposition- Visualization for Education
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
• Dynamic visualization based on neighbourhoods
• User control over well-being indicators & weighting
• Option to download data for re-use !
• New features on the way
13
Open Data Value Proposition- Visualization + Data
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Researchhttp://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/
14
Principles1. Science is an investment in the public interest. 2. Scientific advances rely on full and open access to data. 3. A market model for access to data is unsuitable for research and education4. Publication of data is essential to scientific research and the dissemination of knowledge. 5. The interests of database owners must be balanced with society's need for open exchange of ideas. 6. Legislators should take into account the impact intellectual property laws may have on research and education. http://www.codata.org/resources/databases/data_access/principles.html
International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology
2012 Conference: “Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet"
Open Data – It’s not Just Government Data
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
• Informal defn: “Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process.”
• Fundamental Goals – July 28, 2009. Transparency in experimental methodology, observation and collection of data Public availability and reusability of scientific data Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration
• Opportunity for collaboration and benefits to society are HUGE
Open Scientific Data
15Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
• OpenCorporates is a recent initiative
• Aims: URL for every company in the world & relating government data to companies
• How about a “Good” Corporate Citizen Index …. Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) would be interested
Open Corporate Data
16
Source: The New Scientist; (Image: PLoS One)http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
“The 147 Companies That Control Everything”Forbes Article, October 22, 2011.
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
17
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
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Health
18
http://ciw.ca/reports/en/History/Indicators_of_Quality_of_Life_in_Canada.sflb.pdf
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/CompositeIndex.html
Measuring our Wellbeing- Canadian Index of Wellness(CIW)
Indicators Circa 2001 Composite Index
Wha
t’s w
rong
with
this
pic
ture
?
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
19
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?
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/DomainsOfWellbeing/Environment.html
20
Well Being Planet Earth- Wellbeing Conservation
• What should the goals be?
• What should we measure?
• How do we make it happen – government? NGO’s, citizens and other stakeholders?
• How do we ensure it’s sustainable?
• How do we ensure it feeds into the public and private sector policy development realm?
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
21
Measuring Community Wellbeing
• Wellbeing Toronto launched 2011
• Variety of variables contributing to wellbeing
• Empowers citizens to rank importance of factors in their community wellbeing
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Moving Forward …
22
Collaborate Now
“All of us are smarter than one of us”
“There are more knowledgeable people outside your organization than inside”
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
23
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 Heritage/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 -> then set goals & action plan to address the deficit
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
OpenData.EARTH
OpenData.EARTH
24
Academia, Non-Profits,
Community Groups
OpenStreetMapCommunity
Updates
External Data Linkages(e.g. World Bank)
OpenData.CA
Provincial
Municipal
Federal
Public Service
Source: Municipal Open Government Framework, 2010 www.slideshare.net/jkonga
Moving forward- leverage the “Cloud”
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Find the dataShare the data
USE the data
25
Moving forward- leverage what already Exists
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Enhanced coordination & data integration will benefit the community
26
Moving forward- leverage Resources already in Place
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Enhanced coordination & resource sharing will benefit the community
• G4: Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton & Ottawa• ODF Project: August – December 2010.• ODF Components
– Governance– Principles & Policy– Standards– Technology– Data, Operations
& Human Resources– Open Data Portal– Future Roadmap
27
Moving forward – Create Collaborative teams
http://www.slideshare.net/jkonga/open-data-current-state-next-gen
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
28
Moving forward – Create Collaborative teams
• A very recent opportunity unfolded at the pre- Latornell ONES workshop
• Mission: “to advance research and the exchange of knowledge and information related to ecosystem services ..”
• Initial focus could be on• communications• creating awareness about the value
of nature• impact on personal and community
wellbeing• Strategy for opening up
“ecosystem”/natural heritage dataJury KongaOpen by Design TM
http://www.onecosystemservices.ca
29
Government
NGO
PrivateAcademia
Citizens & Community
Groups
Moving forward … as an Inclusive Community
Need to leverage ourCommunity Intellectual Capitaland resources
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
30
Concluding thoughts …. 1
• Common Baseline : Develop a local -> Provincial -> National -> Global Nature Ecosystem Wellbeing (NEW) index
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Common ParametersGlobal
National
Provincial
Local
Wel
lbei
ng
Time
31
Concluding thoughts …. 2
• Embrace Open Data – Make it PolicyOpen Data + Integrated Community Analyses =
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Analyses
Community
Integrated Enhanced Decision Making
& Policy
Development(& MUCH more)
32
Concluding thoughts …. 3• Collaboration is an Imperative
Need to optimize our resources – physical, financial and intellectual capital
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Let’s support this new collaborative groupSource: Jury Konga, “Collaboration 2.0- Leveraging Today’s Technology for Tomorrow’s Challenges”
33
Concluding thoughts …. 4
• Just Do It!Recycling a mantra from eGovernment in the 2000’s ….
“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” and Collaborate Large
Jury KongaOpen by Design TM
Mother Nature needs our help
- and we need her!
Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group
[email protected] @jkongaSkype jury.konga
Other presentations:
www.slideshare.net/jkongawww.slideshare.net/jurykonga
Thank You