Open Data and

innovation Thessaloniki April 6 2012

Web Evolution

From the Web of Documents to

the Web of Open Data

the Web of People

the Web as a Social Machine

the Web as Scientific Infrastructure

the Web as Innovation Infrastructure

Open Data

Evidence of innovative services in government, transport, health

Intelligent processing, combination and visualisation of data

Use of location and time to better address citizen needs

Potential to foster scientific discovery

Potential for financial benefits (wealth creation)

Monetization of public sector information

Open supply chains and new business models

Standards and tools to support

Publication of datasets and interoperability

Crowd-sourcing and public engagement processes

It is the evolution of the Web which has always been driving Innovation

provide for de-centralisation of information currently stored in information empires

Open Data Rationale

Starting from innovation, the Web has always been driving innovation

The web is now bringing together new resources that can lead to a new wave of

innovation (people, machines, data)

Actions

Scenaria for specific sectors

Nokia (mobile data challenge)

Public sector information (cabinet office report)

Open supply chains (Nigel)

Crowdsourcing

Developing world (Web foundation, MIT)

CSAIL retailing

Scientific process

Infrastructure

Research Directions

Understand the impact and potential of the Open Data on

society and economy

Explore the laws underpinning innovation processes on

Social Machines and Open Data

Elicit, articulate, simulate and deploy innovation scenarios

for specific sectors such as government, health, transport,

science and education (web obs)

Foster the deployment of Open Data infrastructures to

support innovation in Europe

Inform European policy on innovation

Modelling monetization, etc