Driving Innovation presentation for Dr. Mark Chun at Pepperdine University

1. Driving Innovation with
Open Data and Knowledge Sharing
Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
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2. Change is Happening…
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3. What Will You Do?
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4. People
People  Knowledge  Problems
The Times They Are A’Changing
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5. Generations Share
Differently
• 1930-50’s era generation
– Focus on society
– Friendships are forged through adversity
• 1960-70’s era generation
– Focus on community
– Friendships forged through identification with a cause
• 1980-90’s era generation
– Focus on the individual
– Friendships forged through individual goal accomplishment
• 2000’s era generation
– Focus on common interests
– Friendships are created or thrive virtually…
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6. Trust and Reciprocity
• Trust can be built on
• Personal experience
• “I know you”
• Shared experience
• “We both worked on the
same project”
• Transfer of trust
• “We know the same person
who trusts us”
• Shared values
• “We agree to operate by the
same rules”
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7. The Learning Journey
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9. NASA SpaceBook
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10. NASA SpaceBook
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11. Communities for Collaboration
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12. Finding NASA Experts
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13. Defining the Competitive Edge
• Historically, innovation and breakthrough ideas and
technologies occur at the edges and boundaries of
networks
• Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions describes such radical innovation as a
paradigm shift
– Astronomy: Ptolemy to Copernicus
– Biology: Creation to Darwinian evolution
– Politics: English monarchy to Magna Carta
• Where will your innovation occur?
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26. Our Modes of Communication
Keep Changing
• YouTube is now second largest
search engine in the world
• 1.5 million pieces of content
shared daily on Facebook
• 250 million visitors each month
to YouTube and Facebook
• Mobile devices will be world’s
primary connection tool to the
Internet in 2020
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27. Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes
accountability
• Participation allows
people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages
cooperation within
government and with
industry
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28. Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data
– from many places and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and citizens
2. Connect the community
– in finding solutions to allow collaboration
through social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure
– built on standards
4. Encourage technology developers
– to create apps, maps, and visualizations
of data that empower people’s choices
“A Strategy for American
5. Gather more data Innovation” published
– and connect more people September 2009
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29. Data.gov
• Provides instant access
to over 400,000
datasets in easy to use
formats
• Contributions from UN,
World Bank, and 185
agencies
• Encourage
development of
innovative applications
• Drive innovation and
knowledge use across
the globe
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30. Easy to Find Data
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31. The Power of Visualizations
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32. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers the tools and
raw data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov
Interest Group) and with RPI for
research in semantic web
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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33. Learn at Data.gov
• Resources for students
and teachers
• Examples of how data is
being used to develop
apps
• Lesson plans and videos
• Showcase your science
fair project that uses
government data!
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34. Open Data for the Economy
• When the Department of
Defense released satellite
data…private industry created
affordable GPS devices
• Data from NOAA (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) helped build
weather-related business
• Opportunities for private sector
are limitless
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35. Open Communities
Community
Restore the Gulf ✓
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Health ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education
Ocean
Research and Development
Public Safety
Human rights
+ many more…
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36. Supporting Global Events
Japanese tsunami, earthquake,
and radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf:
Deepwater Horizon
Response
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37. Health.Data.gov
Champion: Todd Park
Chief Technology Officer
US Dept. of Health and
Human Services
Apps Forums
Blogs
Challenges
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38. Publicizing Data to Innovators
• Challenges and code‐a-
thons
(health2challenge.org)
• Many innovator “meetups”
and conferences
• Annual health data-
paloozas
• Over 139 applications
• 50 new businesses
• Thousands of lives
improved each day
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39. Creating Apps That Improve Lives:
Asthmapolis
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40. Creating Apps That Save Lives:
iTriage and Hospital Compare
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41. Creating Apps That Change Lives: Eat
Your Vegetables and Food Deserts
• Eat Your Vegetables uses
Health and Human Services
community health data and
shows obesity rates by county
• Food Deserts shows areas with
a lack of access to fresh food
• Combined can inform cities and
citizens how to change their
behavior
• Games like Hungry Hiker helps
kids make better choices
– Apps for Healthy Kids
sponsored by First Lady
Michelle Obama
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42. Use Case: Economic
• Healthtap
– Provides free, reliable, and
independent health information
through the use of open data
and by building the world’s
largest medical expert network
tailored for young mothers and
their children
– Won 2010 Health 2.0 challenge
– Success invigorated expansion
and new hiring at HealthTap
– Reaches to Data.gov datasets
(along with others)
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43. Real Outcomes = Better Lives
• The data delivered through the 185 agencies
participating in Data.gov eases the burden on families in
caring for a sick child or seeking medical information
• More importantly, the data as it’s aggregated empowers
communities to make changes that improve the quality
of life of citizens
– ReLeaf plants trees in areas identified by Together We Breathe
as danger areas for asthma sufferers
– Cities see hot spots that trigger asthma problems for their
citizens
• Each company in Health 2.0 used government data to
innovate and create high-value jobs here in America
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44. Think Big, Start Small, Innovate
Data.gov Quick Facts May 2009 October 2011
Total datasets available 47 >400,000
Hits to Data.gov 0 >200 million
Apps and mash-ups by citizens and government 0 372 + 1113
RDF triples for semantic applications 0 6.7 billion
Dataset downloads 0 >2.0 million
Nations establishing open data sites 0 28
States offering open data sites 0 31
Cities in North America with open data sites 0 13
Open data contacts in Federal agencies 24 396
Agencies and subagencies participating 7 185
Communities 0 7
Community challenges 0 23
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45. Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov
connects
innovators,
industry,
academia, and
government at
federal, state,
and local levels
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46. Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov
connects works
with challenges
across the nation
to integrate
federal data and
bring government
personnel to
code-a-thons
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47. Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform
data in
understandable
ways to help
people make
decisions
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48. The Path Ahead
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★
• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★
• Provide simple ways to visualize the data
• Create communities to understand and apply data
• Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry,
and academia to drive innovation
• Develop open source open government data platform with
India for global use and further community development
• Share with others to understand global issues
Be the change you want to see in the world
– Ghandi
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49. US Open Government Action Plan
• On 20 September 2011, President Obama
announced at the UN General Assembly…
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source platform
– Will allow any country to create open data site
• Foster communities on Data.gov
– Health, energy, and law plus new communities in
education, research and development, and public
safety
• Launch International Space Apps Competition
– NASA and other space agencies will gather
scientists and citizens
– Use data for global challenges: weather impacts on
global economy and depletion of ocean resources
– A collaboration website will be created to facilitate
citizen participation
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50. Open Data at Cities, Counties,
and States
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51. A Global
Movement Has
Begun to Provide
Transparency and
Democratization
of Data
Don’t see your site?
Update via @usdatagov
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52. Let’s work together to set the
data free!
www.Data.Gov
@usdatagov
jholm@jpl.nasa.gov
@JeanneHolm
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