open data talk at a wiki advocate training workshop in cape town - 27 february, 2014
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Open Data in South Africa. What is it? What is the South African context? A couple of Case Studies and how to get involvedTRANSCRIPT
What is open data – isn't it just transparency?
Available
Accessible
Available in bulk
Available in machine readable format (mb not kg)
Open data copyright – which means (commercial use!!)
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AdvocacyOpen data policy working group
Talk shops
PAIA Requests
Copyright Copyright Copyright
AdvocacyOpen data policy working group
Talk shops
PAIA Requests
More copyright
AdvocacyOpen data policy working group
Talk shops
PAIA Requests
Frivolous or vexatious
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Despite what many people think – data already exists
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Using data to make medicines more affordable
Success – easy peasyPhoto credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/runesteiness/
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Thank goodness we have ceiling prices to protect the consumer
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Why stop at the public sector?
http://mpr.code4sa.org
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Code for South Africa is an NGO that supports informed decision making in society through the use of technology and the promotion of access to information.
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I love data – all 651 pages of it
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Learn something new about your party in 30 seconds
Not just pretty pictures:Data journalism is about telling stories in new ways
http://za.okfn.org/files/2013/03/wards.png
Data isn’t the story:It can help you find it but it won’t tell it for you.
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Media Fellowship Programme: We support media to explore how data journalism can
improve newsrooms’ ability to report and communicate.
Code4Democracy
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Community OutreachHackathons, Meet-upsMailing lists
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Data eco-system
We liberate data
Build APIs
Stimulate demand
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http://iec.code4sa.org
December
Hackathon
http://www.code4sa.org/2014/01/09/IDP-hackathon-feedback.html
http://www.electionmap.co.za
February
Speed data(ing)MP Gift Disclosures
Data can be fun (and misleading)
Visualisation:Most South Africans don’t believe that granular data exists - and even if it does, they believe it is too complex for ordinary citizens to use meaningfully.
http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/
Local Context:People relate to what they can see. Local information has more impact
than national statistics.
http://dotspotting.org/u/980/sheets/2279
Hyper-local is the new awesome
Knowyour hood
Show me the data● http://www.africaopendata.org
● Superweb on StatSA (use Google to find it)
● http://iec.org.za
● http://demarcation.org.za
● The best place is to ask on the mailing lists
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