A talk given at the OpenDataCities conference in Brighton, 20th April 2012, by Laura James of the Open Knowledge Foundation

1. Open Data, Open Tools,
Open Cities
Dr Laura James
Open Knowledge Foundation

2. Open Knowledge
Foundation
‘Open knowledge’ is any content, information or
data that people are free to use, re-use and
redistribute — without any legal, technological or
social restriction.

3. looking back...

4. challenge + opportunity

5. what is open data?

6. http://opendefinition.org/
Essentially: “a piece of content or data is open if anyone is
free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most,
to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.”.

7. not personal data

8. why open data?

9. an aside!
linking data

10. when metadata meets the real world

11. what do we get from open
data?

12. more
quantity changes quality

13. better

14. where are we with open
data today?

15. open data + cities

16. “information is the currency
of democracy”
Thomas Jefferson

17. more sustainable cities

18. citizens + communities
using open data

19. your organisation
using open data

20. what’s the problem?

21. open tools

22. open source
choice + sustainability

23. open source
new business models

24. an example of a tool for
open data
the data management system (DMS)

25. What does a DMS do?

26. OKF + open tools

27. CKAN
it’s a data management system!

28. CKAN
What features does it have?

29. CKAN
What’s it good for?

30. CKAN
http://publicdata.eu/

31. CKAN
http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/index.html

32. CKAN
http://thedatahub.org

33. CKAN
http://thedatahub.org

34. CKAN
What’s it used for?

35. data.gov.uk

36. iatiregistry.org

37. dataGM.org.uk

38. http://www.hri.fi/en/
Helsinki Region Infoshare

39. coming soon...

40. CKAN
not just the Open Knowledge Foundation

41. CKAN
but do talk to us :)

42. Open Spending

43. http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html
OpenSpending

44. http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dailybread.html
OpenSpending

45. http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/spending.html
OpenSpending

46. http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/spending.html
OpenSpending

47. http://bund.offenerhaushalt.de/
OpenSpending

48. Conclusion

49. open your data
(using open tools!)

50. talk to us if you need help
(there’s a whole community you can work with)

51. see what opening data can
do for your city

52. thank you
okfn.org
@OKFN
laura.james@okfn.org