Open Data Endeavors in Amsterdam

Open Data Days,19 th Febr 2014, Ghent

Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy

Advisor@KatalinG

Open Data. Why?

Public sector staff recognize the importance of open data, but many are unsure how to use it. (Guardian Research, June 2013)

Open Data Controversial for Local Governments

Open Data chances are unrevealed for governments.

Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy but curiosity (something big, exciting with Open Data is coming)

Who to choose? What to choose?-Linked Data -Data Visualization -Data Mining are unexploited

Loc Gov need a helping hand and collaboration on Open Data

Vendor Fusion

Vocabularies Policy Makers

“What is the evidence that we should release datasets?”

“How many start ups have been created since we launched the first datasets”

“Can Open Data repair a market failure, inefficiency?”

Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

Precarious Open Data Policies

Connected24 hours

• Citizens

• Opening, exchanging data between departments of the city hall

• External: hackathons still missing in Open Data scenario’s-Big Data Strategy-Meaning behind data (visualization, mining)-Interoperability of open data based apps-Civic App Store

Injecting Open Data best practices through EU projects to

cities

1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for Europe- WORKING WITH CODERS

Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

The Future - Commons

2. EU project: Open Cities

• Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders • Business Accelerators• Innovation Intermediaries >>• EU Projects• Open minded Local Gov• Participatory citizens

Amsterdam – Strong Open Data Ecosystem partners

Best Practices Open Data

• 30 apps have been launched (face recognition by portrays)

• High educational impact• Positive PR for the museum• Reach of new younger

target group

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api -110.000 high resolution photo’s of the collection

Rijksmuseum API

Community: Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

Open Data Observations1. Open Data Catalysts are strongly dependent on

external financing and networking - Liberate open data agents!

2. Vocabularies match between policy makers and open data catalyst

3. Produce user cases to discover the enormous underexploited value of data

4. Watch out with corporate Big Data providers5. Encourage cities to move toward Commons, peer

reviewed open data vendors

Memories. 2011

Thank you! Katalin Gallyas

gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl @katalinG