Using Data.gov Communities to Drive Innovation and Collaboration

Jeanne Holm, Data.govOctober 20, 2012

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Creating Community

• Communities are public-facing spaces that present data, information, and subject matter knowledge about a single topic from many organizations in one place– The topics for communities can

be chosen based on priorities from the public, departments based on their mission, or issues of national importance

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US Open Government Action Plan

• On 20 September 2011, President Obama announced at the UN General Assembly…– Contribute Data.gov as a

platform (India and the U.S.)– Foster communities on Data.gov

• Health, energy, and law plus new communities in education, research and development, and public safety

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Questions for Agencies

• Is there a community you are interested in leading or contributing to?

• Are we missing a community that would help to support your goals?

• Help to engage the power of your network to drive innovation in your community space!

– Send questions to: Jeanne.Holm@jpl.nasa.gov – Tweet your questions to @usdatagov

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SAMPLE

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Open CommunitiesCommunity

Developers ✓Open Data ✓

Semantic Web ✓

Health ✓

Law ✓

Energy ✓

Education ✓

Ocean ✓

Safety ✓

Manufacturing ✓

Business ✓

Ethics ✓

Cities ✓

Sustainable Supply Chain ✓

+ many more…

ExamplesHealth: http://health.data.gov Energy: http://energy.data.gov Education: http://education.data.gov

How Does a Community Start?

1. Vision—what will the community connection and collaboration look like in the future?

2. Leaders—who will help to lead the community (a person or core group)?

3. Participants—who will be part of the community?4. Outcome—what are the expected outcomes, metrics, and

measurements that will show success?5. Functionality—what types of activities will be conducted on

the site (forums, blogs, wikis, ranking, rating, etc.)?6. Content—what content and information will be shared and

highlighted?7. Interactivity—what ways will the community interact with

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What Can People Do?

• Browse and search for government data and apps• Suggest a dataset (public request and response)• Rate and rank datasets and apps• Create a visualization, analysis, or map of one or

more datasets and share it• Join one or more communities• Engage in forum discussions in communities or

around a specific dataset• Comment on blog posts• Communicate and coordinate with social media

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Energy Drives Innovation

• Energy.Data.gov connects innovators, industry, academia, and government at federal, state, and local levels

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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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Twitter @usdatagov

Opportunities for Agencies to Connect to Citizens

• Agencies can help to drive innovation with the public by– Creating an app for your agency’s data– Having a visiting intern or summer faculty

• Have them create a lesson plan, video, or activity around agency data

• Integrate with existing educational plans or goals

– Sponsoring a challenge for developers around agency data

– Participating in or leading a community on Data.gov

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Data Drives Decisions

• Apps transform data in understandable ways to help people make decisions

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Health.Data.govChampion: Todd ParkChief Technology OfficerUS Dept. of Health and Human Services

Apps Forums

Challenges

Blogs

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Publicizing Data to Innovators

• Challenges and code‐a-thons

• 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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Creating Apps That Improve Lives: Asthmapolis

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Creating Apps That Save Lives: iTriage

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Use Case: Economic

• Healthtap– Provides free, reliable, and

independent health information through the use of open data and by building the world’s largest medical expert network tailored for young mothers and their children

– Won 2010 Health 2.0 challenge– Success invigorated expansion

and new hiring at HealthTap– Reaches to Data.gov datasets

(along with others)

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US Open Data at Cities, Counties, and States

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A Global Movement Has

Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization

of Data

Don’t see your site? Update via @usdatagov

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Let’s work together to set the data free!

www.Data.Gov@usdatagov

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