slides for my talk at the World Blogging Forum 2010 in Vienna

1. OPEN DATA
FUEL FOR DIGITAL MEDIA
Robert Harm
http://www.harm.co.at
„data is the new oil soil“
open3.at – network for the promotion of openSociety, openGovernment an openData in Austria

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Definition Open Data
All non-individual-related data from politics, public
administration and science which are released promptly to the
public in machine-readable, complete and open formats
using open APIs/interfaces without restrictions and exempt from
charges.
8 Open Government Data Principles
http://opendata-network.org/2009/11/open-government-data-principles/

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Which data are we talking about?
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/opendata/intro-open-data-hackday-3841108
It´s our data, we paid the taxes for it

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Potentials and societal benefits
from “open government data”
 Politics and public administration become
open, transparent and citizen centered.
 Societal processes and defects become
visible and thus addressable
 Qualified decision-making on a personal
level
Quelle: Donau-Uni Krems, Zentrum für E-Government

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a new access model for data
Quelle: Daniel Dietrich, http://www.slideshare.net/ddie/opendata-warum-eine-freie-gesellschaft-offene-daten-braucht

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Role of journalists & bloggers

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Example NYT / unemployed
http://nyti.ms/9MdhtL

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Preview: Budget Vienna 2009
http://ihrwebprofi.at/treemap/ausgaben.html

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Thanks for your attention!
Robert Harm
http://www.harm.co.at
http://www.open3.at