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@BartRosseau E-Strategie

Stad Gent

Open Data in Ghent 23/06/2013

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4 years of Open Data

3d edition of Apps For Ghent

Ghent Living Lab, Ghent Web Valley, iMinds, City of Ghent,

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Why?

• Smart City• Innovation• Transparency

DATA

• Low Hanging Fruit• Geo Data• Streetnames

• Evolution: Real Time Data

Challenges

• Metadata, metadata, metadata

• Trying to understand the semantic web

• Vocabularies?

Co-creation

• Let people find the data

• Convince people to re-use the data– Ghent living lab– Students

• Show the added value to the administration

• European cooperation – Citadel on the move– Eurocities

Datatalks

Not just for coders

Impact of open data

Open data is more than App Development

(data journalism, data visualisation, service delivery)

Inspiration Sessions

• Ghent Festival

• Geo Data

• Networking between developers, ideators and civil servants

Apps For Ghent

• Coding Sprint (6 hours)

• Keep the formula fresh

• Longevity of the ideas/apps– AppsForEurope

And the winner is…

• Energy awareness game ENERXIA

• 9K City builder

• Pharmacy App

• http://hoedrukist.nu

Feedback

Crowdsourcing Data

What developments would the Ghent Citizens like?

And now?

• Open Gov

• Business development

• Beyond machine readability

Questions?

http://appsforghent.be

http://data.gent.be

http://ghentlivinglab.be

http://www.citadelonthemove.eu/Twitter: @bartrosseau

e-strategie@gent.be