Presentation given at Mobile Apps World 2010 by Tiffany St James on Mobil

1. Mobile Apps World 2010
Open Data & App Development
Tiffany St James
Wednesday 20 October, 2010

2. What do we mean by open data
• Open data is a philosophy and practice
requiring that certain data be freely
available to everyone, without restrictions
from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control.

3. And our govt means open data by...
• Non-personal data
• Information not code
• Figures, statistics
• Excel, tables, csv files
• Every report published

4. Why is this important?
• Transparency
• Public sector reform
• Social benefits
• Economic benefits
• Global leadership positioning

5. What did the UK Govt do?
• Opened up a repository for data
• Made departments publish data
• Created an online community of developers
• Made ‘linked data’ a reality

6. Why is this world class?
• A way of marking up data for the web
• Enables concepts to be linked together
• Letting people walk through the data by
concept - e.g. data that is about:
• Schools
• With a budget over £3m
• In South East of England

7. From this…

8. …To this

9. It looks like this:

11. How did they do it?
• Work with people who were best in class
• Establish processes for release
• Build a back end
• Soft launch
• Blogger briefings
• Created visualisations to show people

12. Example apps with public data
• Road traffic accidents
• Locrating – schools by Ofsted rating
• Where did my tax go?
• Compare the Care Home
• Day Nurseries
• UK Climate projections

13. Crowdspeak – Parly candidates

14. ASBOrometer

15. Scores on the Doors – food hygiene

16. Facebook crime stats quiz

17. UK Post Box

18. Find GPs

19. Or dentists

20. Or pharmacies

25. Other data stores - Guardian

26. Other data stores – US data.gov

27. From visualisations

28. To interactive apps

29. Grounding information for you..

30. What can we all learn from this?
• Information is beautiful…
• Making difficult things easy to understand is
worthwhile, useful and profitable
• Consider how you can bring alive
information for your clients?

31. What needs to happen next
• Getting data out of the geek ghettos to
enable people to
• interrogate it
• play with it
• interact with it

32. So what can I do?
• Businesses: Free your data
• Developers: Create apps
• Customers: Buy and demand apps
• All: Lobby to free data

33. Presentation at:
www.stimulationltd.co.uk
www.slideshare.net/stimulation
Tiffany St James
tiffany@stimulationltd.co.uk
www.twitter.com/tiffanystjames