OPEN + THE INTERNET OF THINGSDr Laura JamesCEO, Open Knowledge Foundation

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What is open data?

Open Data can be freely used, reused, and redistributed, by anyone, anywhere, for any

purpose(we also work with public domain cultural

works - content - as well as data)

Why open?So you can:

componentiseremix

reshareGiving you:

new insightsbetter datainnovation

What is open knowledge?

Open Knowledge is what Open Data becomes when it is made

useful - accessible, understandable, meaningful,

and able to help someone solve a real

problem

OpenDefinition.org

all kinds of knowledge

• any kind of knowledge can be open

• any format: spreadsheets, databases, pictures, words…

• any field: transport, science, products, education, sustainability, maps, legislation, libraries, economics, culture, development, business, design, finance …

all kinds of peoplein all kinds of organisations

• open data can be published by anyone: government, public sector bodies, researchers, corporations, universities, NGOs, startups, charities, community groups, individuals….

• open data can be used by anyone: government, public sector bodies, researchers, corporations, universities, NGOs, startups, charities, community groups, individuals….

• all kinds of people can get involved with the open knowledge movement: as a campaigner, coder, writer, donor, trainer, tweeter, meetup organiser, data wrangler, ambassador, analyst, researcher, manager…

The Open Knowledge Foundation

• We build tools to make working with information easier

• We help people learn the data skills they need

• We connect and support individuals and organisations and projects to create collaborations and make things happen

we are makers

Creating the open infrastructure and tooling to power and support the open ecosystem and innovation

CKAN.org

OpenSpending.org

WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org

OKFNLabs.org

Timemapper.org

we bring people together & advise & campaign & collaborate

Meetups and workshops – online and offline

Key convening events such as the first international Open Government Data Camp in 2010

Direct technical and legal contributions to a large number of projects and initiatives in dozens of countries around the world, shaping essential policies at the World Bank, US, UK, French, Finnish, Brazilian governments

OKFN.org/local

we help people learn

Learning through doing at datathons & hackathons - online and offlineOpen materialsPartnerships around the world

Schoolofdata.org

OpenDataHandbook.org

OpenDataHandbook.org

So… We are in the midst of an open data revolution

• But it’s not a magic bullet

• We need: tools, communities, skills

• We need access to data!

• It’s going to be disruptive

The data revolutionThe 21st century as information age

• Data is everywhere

• Data is powerful (especially when it’s shared openly!)

• But it shouldn’t all be open data

Data about me• A lot of the data which could help me improve my life is

data about me

• This data might be gathered directly by me or harvested

by corporations from what I do online, or assembled by

public sector services I use, or voluntarily contributed to

scientific and other research studies, or…

• There’s a lot of it. I don’t even know what’s out there

My data / our data

• Who collects it?

• Who moves it around or stores it?

• Who licenses it?

• Who uses it? And for what?

• Who controls what happens to it?

• Who is the data about?

Whose information is it anyway?

Personal data becoming open data

• Important datasets that are (or could be) open are

created from personal data via aggregation,

anonymisation, etc

• By personal choice

• Through the public record

Personal data becoming open data

• Important datasets that are (or could be) open are

created from personal data via aggregation,

anonymisation, etc

• By personal choice

• Through the public record

This is really very very hard to do properly

Most people are not like you

• Most people are not early adopters

• Other people have different risk profiles

• Design for everyone, not just you

Warning: seriously non-trivial!• Data ownership & data control

• Education & awareness

• Privacy & risk

• Crypto / personal data stores / query APIs not data

APIs / ??

• This isn’t an open data debate: it’s a data debate!

It’s not about opening everything

• If it’s definitely a shared good, commons-style data:

open it

• If it’s personal information: think very hard

Some light relief

• choice

• sustainability

• trust

• transparency

open source softwareopen source software

open hardwareopen hardware

• open what?

open hardwareopen hardware

•gates within FPGAs and ASICs

•e.g. opencores.org

open coresopen cores

•circuit diagrams, board layouts, bills of materials

open open electronicselectronics

open docsopen docs

open networkopen networkprotocolsprotocols

•e.g. ietf.org

open designopen design

design.OKFN.org

• Open web design

• Open graphic design

• Open fonts

• Open product design

• Open fashion

Open design facets

Open processes and stuff

open innovation

•e.g. 100% open www.100open.com

open recycling & reuse

•e.g. ikeahackers.net

open public service design

•e.g. www.openpublicservices.cabinetoffice.gov.uk

• spectrum.okfn.org coming soon…

Open whitespace spectrum?

Open manufacturing

open tools

•e.g. makerbot.com

open sourcing & supply chains

•e.g. sourcemap.com

open testing

•e.g. ethereal.com

open materials

•e.g. openmaterials.org

•e.g. Product.okfn.org

open product information

• Is what you’ve got a design, a process, software, data?

• Where in the world are you?

• If there’s no licence it’s not open!

On open licensing…

• Principles are all very well but you have to ship

• Does it matter if it’s turtles all the way down?

• Revolutions are hard

Pragmatic not fanatic

• IOT will help us solve the big global problems

• Open gives us choice, freedom, transparency & trust

(and these are things we want when we imagine

systems which are everywhere, affecting everyone, all

the time)

• Open scales

• Open is sustainable

Why open IOT?

Conclusionopen means free reuse and resharing by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose

I’m @LaurieJ / LBJ.org.ukWe’re @OKFN / OKFN.org