Open Data, Commons, Code for Europe in Amsterdam

Connected Smart Cities,18 th Febr 2014, Brussels

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. Why?

Default mindset Gov = Closed. How to fight this?• Economic gains• Societal values• Accountability of government• Proactivity on market demands and new civic services

- > Transformational public services • How to Make Digital Agenda endeavors local?

Open Data. Why?

Striking facts

While 72% of the interviewed civil servants understood that open data would be very important over the next three years, 78% did not know about specific government open data initiatives or what their benefits would be.

….and 66% did not understand their personal role in delivering the open data agenda.

(Source: Open Data Policy Research, Guardian, June 2013)

Open Data Controversial for Local Governments

Open Data chances are unrevealed for governments.

Because of ICT legacy focus, Vendor- and Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy

Who to choose? What to choose? Huge range of non proprietary and proprietary systems.

-ODP Open Data Partnership-Open Data Institute-Open Knowledge Foundation

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?”

Vendor Fusion

Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

Precarious Open Data Policies

Connected24 hours

• Citizens

+ Release-, Promote, Build Apps, RepositoryMissing part : Peer Reviewed Civic Apps, Sharing Commons

What else can help to stimulate local Open Data programs and

impact?

1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for Europe

Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

The Future - Commons

2. EU Open Data project: Open Cities Repository & Hackathons

2. EU project: Open Cities

Nearly 400 datasets available

3. EU Data Project: City SDK (service development toolkit)

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

Amsterdam – Strong Open Data Ecosystem partners

Open Data Evolution in Amsterdam

• In 2010 hackers, innovation labs and SME’s, web entrepreneurs requested the first datasets

• 28 datasets open in 2011• >350 datasets open in 2014• 2010 – 0 euro budget• 2013 – 1,5 M euro budget • 2014- lobby for 0.5 M local resources and many EU projects• From 2013 Open Data Program – by Amsterdam Economic

Board• 3 EU projects that promote the value of Open Data

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

Double salting routes discovered

Beyond Open Data – Business Generation

2012 – Focus of App Contest: The more the better….

• 3 start ups coaching• +300 datasets• Participation in Apps4EU• +50 civic apps

2013 – Less apps more business incubation

Community: Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

Understand Open Data dynamics

Open Data Observations1. Open Data Catalysts are strongly dependent on

external financing and networking (role for Enoll, Connected Smart Cities)- 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