Open Data Briefing for Alameda County Data Sharing Committee
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OpenData: What, Why & How? In Alameda County Steve Spiker (GISP) Director of Research + Technology Urban Strategies Council
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Transcript of Open Data Briefing for Alameda County Data Sharing Committee
OpenData: What, Why & How? In Alameda County
Steve Spiker (GISP)Director of Research + Technology
Urban Strategies Council
overview• Opendata?• Why it matters for Alameda County
• Benefits and Gains• What it looks like• Internal Benefits/Improvements
• How?• Hackathons & Community Use• InfoAlameda
Urban Strategies Council…
A social impact organization.
Uses research, policy, collaboration,
innovation and advocacy to achieve equity
and social justice.
www.urbanstrategies.org
Our OpenData Initiative
Supporting East Bay government agencies.
Support from Code for America &
CivicCommons.org Requested support from Nate Miley Focused on internal gov benefits and wider
community
What is Open___?
•OpenGovernment•OpenSource•OpenStandards•OpenData…
http://opendatahandbook.org
What is OpenData“increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by government”
• Makes all PUBLIC data available to the PUBLIC
• Next step in eGov“Opendata is rocket fuel for innovation”Former US CTO Vivek Kundra
What is OpenData
(Inte
ropera
bili
ty)
• Complete• Primacy• Timely• Ease of Physical & Electronic Access
• Machine readable• Non-discriminatory• Open standards• Licensed openly• Permanent• Free
10 Principles:
What is OpenData not?Never:
• Confidential information• Personal information like health records
• Violates local, state or federal laws
Why Alameda?• Internal data sharing process•Strong, growing tech community•https://data.sfgov.org/•Code for Oakland
Opendata Benefits• Innovation • Improved efficiency of government services • Improved effectiveness of government services • Impact measurement of policies • New knowledge from combined data sources
Opendata Benefits•One Stop portal for all gov data!•Reduced requests for custom data•Real engagement opportunity•Supports transparent, open government
Opendata BenefitsInteroperability!
Agency A installs new case mgmt system- with an OpenData API (connection, feed)
Agency B installs new recording system- simply pulls Agency A data through OPEN feed
encourages the use of standards, OPEN standards!
Opendata BenefitsInteroperability- 5 years later!
Agency A wants to update a second system
Because prior system used an OPEN standard- no legacy tools or coding needed- just connect!
What OpenData looks like
County A• Open, free parcel data• Open, free foreclosure
data• Open, free business permit
data• Open, free social service
data
County B• No public/costly parcel
data• Costly foreclosure data• No public business permit
data• Closed social service dataWhere would you…
• Consider investing in affordable housing development?
• Consider locating a new business?• Consider funding community initiatives?• Expect more robust grants from?
How Opendata looksYelp
+ Restaurant Health Inspections?
+ Sheriff's crime reports?
Crimespotting
Opendata in Alameda
• One place to get the right supervisorial boundaries• One place to share and access foreclosure,
property, tax data• Open county 211 data- one copy of all social
service agencies- to drive multiple websites and apps
• Massively improve access to information for new businesses, building and development projects
Framework
Dept A Database
Dept B Database
API or extracti
on routine
Compliance Report or
Website
Analyst, Manager, Programmer
INTERNAL!
Open Data Site
InfoAlameda
Mobile Apps Engageme
nt Tools
Civic Tech
Solutions
Implementation• Guidelines & standards for which datasets to publish• Technical requirements for publishing data• Guidelines for departments to follow in developing
open data plans• Selecting/developing generic licenses for data• Consider rules for putting data sets into new IT
contracts• Solicit comments from public before implementation
Implementation1. Keep it simple2. Engage early and engage often3. Address common fears & misunderstandings
Who Can Use Opendata
Code for Oakland- hackathons!
Photo Credit: Flickr user hackNY
Hack what?
Innovate!
InfoAlamedaCounty.org• Web based mapping platform• Data visualization• Full export of all data!• Platform for publishing research, data, maps• Built in partnership with ACPHD• Free- open to anyone• viewer.infoalamedacounty.org
engageQuestions, concerns, excitement?
Thank you!
[email protected]@spjika @urbanstratoak @infoalameda
