First set of slides from the workshop on *Using Data for Impact*, co-facilitated by Sunil Abraham and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, at the Ashoka Future Forum, Pune, India, 29th June 2013.
These slides explore the use cases, concepts, definitions and examples of open (government and non-government) data projects.
1. Structure:
- Introductions (15 minutes)
- Introduction to Using Data for Impact (15 minutes)
- Tools and Methods for Working with Data (30 minutes)
- Discussion (15 minutes)
- Breakout Session (45 minutes)
- Presentations and Discussion (30 minutes)
Sunil Abraham
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
Using Data for Impact
Ashoka Future Forum
Pune, 29th
June 2013
2. Introduction to Using Data for Impact
- Using Data for Impact
- What is Open (Government) Data?
- Open Data Projects
10. Using Data for Impact
Does WikiLeaks Open Up (Government) Data?
11. What is Open (Government) Data?
Open Knowledge Foundation – Open Data Handbook
Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and
redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and sharealike.
Essential characteristics:
- Availability and Access: The data must be available as a whole and
at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by
downloading over the internet. The data must also be available in a
convenient and modifiable form.
Source: <http://opendatahandbook.org/en/what-is-open-data/index.html>
12. What is Open (Government) Data?
Open Knowledge Foundation – Open Data Handbook
- Reuse and Redistribution: the data must be provided under terms
that permit reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with
other datasets.
- Universal Participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and
redistribute - there should be no discrimination against fields of
endeavour or against persons or groups. For example, ‘non-
commercial’ restrictions that would prevent ‘commercial’ use, or
restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education), are
not allowed.
- Interoperability: ensuring the ability of diverse systems and
organizations to work together (inter-operate). In this case, it is the
ability to interoperate - or intermix - different datasets.
Source: <http://opendatahandbook.org/en/what-is-open-data/index.html>
13. What is Open (Government) Data?
Tim O'Reilly, Carl Malamud et al – Principles of Open Govt Data
- Data Must Be Complete: All public data are made available. Data
are electronically stored information or recordings, including but not
limited to documents, databases, transcripts, and audio/visual
recordings. Public data are data that are not subject to valid privacy,
security or privilege limitations, as governed by other statutes.
- Data Must Be Primary: Data are published as collected at the
source, with the finest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate
or modified forms.
- Data Must Be Timely: Data are made available as quickly as
necessary to preserve the value of the data.
- Data Must Be Accessible: Data are available to the widest range of
users for the widest range of purposes.
14. What is Open (Government) Data?
Tim O'Reilly, Carl Malamud et al – Principles of Open Govt Data
- Data Must Be Machine Processable: Data are reasonably
structured to allow automated processing of it.
- Access Must Be Non-Discriminatory: Data are available to anyone,
with no requirement of registration.
- Data Formats Must Be Non-Proprietary: Data are available in a
format over which no entity has exclusive control.
- Data Must Be License-free: Data are not subject to any copyright,
patent, trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy,
security and privilege restrictions may be allowed as governed by
other statutes.
- Finally, compliance must be reviewable.