The document discusses how government open data and APIs can enable civic apps and encourage collaboration and innovation. It provides examples of apps created in Honolulu using open data from APIs, including DaBus for real-time bus arrival times. The goal is to transform how knowledge is shared by making government data openly available to developers and the public.
2. On a Mission from GOD:
Government Open Data
Framing the Mission
○ Open Data - Open Gov
○ Culture of Innovation
○ Collaboration
○ Data is the new commons
○ Gov as the stewards of data
○ APIs are the new enabler
3. Government as a Platform
Tim O’Reilly:
“This quest for simplicity is one of the drivers behind
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s emphasis on Data.gov, a
collection of APIs to government data. Kundra realized
that rather than having the government itself build out
all of the websites and applications that use that data,
providing application programming interfaces to the
private sector will allow independent developers to
come up with new uses for government data.”
4. Government Citizens
Tech 2.0
Digital technologies have the
potential to radically transform the
way that knowledge is disseminated
in our society.
Convergence
6. Open Data Flow
API
Engine
Crime Data
Transportation Data
Water Data
Budget Data
Sirens Data
Shelters Data
Honolulu 311 Data
Art Data
Systems Databases
Government Data
12. DaBus
Features
● Locate nearby bus stops at your
current location.
● Search for a bus stop by street name
or stop number.
● Get complete real-time bus arrival
information.
● Track the current location of your
interested bus.
● Bookmark your favorite bus stops.
● Explore different bus routes.
● Virtually ride the bus and double tap
to zoom in on its route.
● Find a bus route by the route number
or route name.
● Get information on the bus fares,
holiday schedules and service alerts.
● http://hea.thebus.org/api_info.asp
19. Reference Sites
● Code for America
● Code for Hawaii (CfA Brigade)
● Can-Do.Honolulu.gov
● Data.Honolulu.gov
● Data.Hawaii.gov
● Citycamp Honolulu
● Govfresh.com
● Sunlight Foundation
● Dev.Socrata.com
● Open City
● Hawaii Data Pipeline
● Data.HPU.edu