ODI 2015 06 opentech - Gavin Starks

Gavin Starks CEO

@agentGav theODI.org

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do1

1 HAL

Photograph by Richard Olsenius

bitrot

wikileaks FOO.GOV

NSA

All your old spreadsheets

something.something.secure (shhhhh)

because datarot

google

binary dust

http://data.cabq.gov/business/addressatlas/APage_A-08-Z.pdf

https://certificates.theodi.org

Big Data 0@OPENDATAHULK please. smash.

All the data 1

Political Politicians, UN, World Bank have shared ambitions Regional Smart-cities are driving efficiency and innovation Business McKinsey, Deloitte are signalling economic growth Innovators Start-ups are creating jobs Social NGO communities are building partnerships Individuals Engaged in improving their world, rebuilding trust

A shared vision

Open data is not just changing the nature of politics and business. It reflects a cultural shift to an open society.

credit: Simon Wardley http://blog.gardeviance.org/

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/10/28/presentation-mobile-is-eating-the-world

Global SMS – 20,000,000,000 messages/day WhatsApp – 30,000,000,000 messages/day

(with 30 engineers)

Source: GSMA, WhatsApp

A square foot of screen sold for every adult on Earth*

*in the last 15 years Source: Corning

Linux (1991) 100,000 contributors 10,000,000 servers 100,000,000 phones

Source: Wikipedia

Wikipedia 23,800,000 registered users 34,900,000 pages 125,000 active editors 6th most popular website

Source: Wikipedia

Wordpress 60,000,000 websites (and a quarter of the top 10M)

Source: Wikipedia

Creative Commons 800,000,000 documents 200,000,000 photos (and that’s just flickr)

Source: Wikipedia

Github 3,400,000 users 16,700,000 code repositories 240 employees

Source: Wikipedia

Open vs Proprietary ‘Closed’ Security Systems “It isn’t possible for a single company to anticipate all future technological developments that will be needed. We predict adopters of closed systems will regret making short-term gains at the expense of long-term pain.”

World Security Report 2015-01 http://ow.ly/HGVCW

Blockchain 1,500,000 wallets $3,000,000,000 market cap Emergence of networks that have centralised databases but are not operated by any single entity

Source: Wikipedia

OpenCorporates 84,000,000 companies 5 staff

Kickstarter Over $1,000,000,000 raised 5,700,000 donors 135,000 projects p2p lending £900,000,000 (just in the UK)

Source: Various

Gangham style 2,000,000,000 views

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are – 23M views

Data is eating the world

“We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.”

Tim O'Reilly

THE DATA STATE

Infrastructure as data

Data as infrastructure

The invisible hand

The invisible AI

http://dashboards.theodi.org

Open data is not just changing the nature of politics and business. It reflects a cultural shift to an open society.

50% off code OPENTECH

theodi.org/postcard

Let’s build, as Buckminster Fuller once put it, “a world that works

for everyone.”

p.s. we’re hiring

Gavin Starks CEO

@agentGav theODI.org

ODI 2015 06 opentech - Gavin Starks

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