Suraj Kika, CEO of Jadu opened the Scottish Web Teams Forum held in Edinburgh in May 2010 with an introduction to OpenData and the Semantic Web.

1. OpenData:
Why information sharing important
to the future of Government
twitter.com/JaduCMS

2. @SurajKika
#CEO

3. “Government data is being put online to
increase accountability, contribute
valuable information about the world,
and to enable government, the country, and
the world to function more efficiently.”
Tim Berners-Lee

4. Sharing Information

5. Repurposing Information

6. http://www.w3.org/TR/gov-data/

7. Open Data gives real
power to the people.

8. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html

9. Web 1.0:
The Document Web

10. Content is everything.

11. Web 2.0:
The Social Web

12. “...an embryo of the Web to come...”

13. “The Web will be understood not as
screenfuls of text and graphics but as a
transport mechanism, the ether through
which interactivity happens...

14. ...It will appear on your computer screen,
on your TV set on your car dashboard, on
your cell phone, hand-held games
machines and maybe even your
microwave.”
Darcy DiNucci

18. Huge shift from mass
media to personal media

19. Over 1600%
Growth in 2009

21. CEO/CIO: “Social Media is
Irrelevant to our business”
-They may have missed the point!

22. 104 Million users in 2009

25. Service Oriented Architecture
websites like Twitter are a first step
to sharing data
Create an API for your content.

27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

28. The point is the evolution.

30. Social media has changed the way
the web is being used.
APIs now rule the web.

31. Web 3.0:
The Web of Data

34. You ALREADY
have the data.

36. The first step is understanding
the modern Internet.
It’s essential Senior Management
understand the evolution of the
Internet.

55. You ALREADY
have the data.

56. All you have to
do is:
Publish it.

57. “Sometimes it is
better just to do it.”
Tim Berners-Lee

58. How Can I Make My Data Open?
1. Make your data publicly available!
2. Apply a suitable open data license.
See - opendatacommons.org
- creativecommons.org

59. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html

60. The future is
happening now.

61. We‘re all
learning.

62. twitter.com/jaducms
twitter.com/surajkika
www.jadu.co.uk