DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING E-GOVERNMENTPOLICIES: THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

Maurizio Napolitano <napo@fbk.eu>

Open DataChallenges and Opportunities

Agenda

Definitions Why How Challenges Open Data at Works Technical issue

Definitions

Definitions (DATA)

http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-are-data.html

single pieces of information

of every nature

● descriptions of facts

● reproducible without ambiguities

● parts of larger information or knowledge structures

● can be expressed and stored in digital formats

Data → Information → Knowledge → Wisdom

Definitions (OPEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open

Open Knowledge Foundation

“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.”

http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/

Why?

… it is an old story :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_%28physician%29

The power of data

Image by EpicGraphic

Transparency and Open Government

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedentedlevel of openness in Government. We will work together toensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency,public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthenour democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness inGovernment.

Transparency and Open Government Memorandum for the Heads ofExecutive Departments and Agencies (2009)

P.A. and Data

COLLECTCOLLECT MANAGEMANAGE UPDATEUPDATE DISSEMINATEDISSEMINATESHARESHARE

SERVICE PAID BY TAXES

average cost recovery

vs

distribution at marginal cost

optimization coststransparency

loss of income high transaction costs

Now …Now …

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html

Open Government Data

Open Linked Data

Open Community Data

Open […] Data

http://opengovernmentdata.org/film/

http://www.trentinoopendata.eu

Italy ...

The central goverment

● http://dati.gov.it

Some regions

● Piemonte● Emilia Romagna● Veneto● Lombardia● Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Some cities

● Firenze

● Torino● …

… Trentino

The 40% of the geodata managed by the Provincia Autonoma of Trento are

Open Data

17/02/2012

This is a first step http://goo.gl/yNPgD

HOW

a formula for making this possible

http://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencemillar

1.Leadershipalso / primarily political

2.Crisisex. budget cuts

3.Heroes1. (from government / administration)

people that believe is possible, but also ready to lose

4.(Pressure from citizens)

The correct way

http://opendatamanual.org/

Spheras of the e-Goverment

Technology Legal aspect

Communication

The knowledge hierarchy

Image by EpicGraphic

A possible communication strategy

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wish list fo the next year Open Government Data as a Right

More Schemas (Knowledge APIs) – keep it focused, let’s not try to boil the ocean

Open Data as a Platform, Not a Commodity

Massive Interconnection Between Open Data Sites

Open Corporate Data (for and by Corporates)

Standards (e.g. for catalog metadata) for Data Portals and Data Hubs

Open Data for Growth – making clear the the connection

Strong international norms for data inventories

Organizational identifiers – Dunn & Bradstreet should be replaced with open data

MiData – getting personal data out of corporates and government back into the hands of the people whose data it is

http://blog.okfn.org/2011/10/23/open-data-wishlist-for-the-next-year/

Open Data at works

The open data ecosystem

Outside italy with italian data(1/2)

http://bikes.oobrien.com/?city=milan

Outside Italy with italians data(2/2)

http://cra.openspending.org/dataset/italyregionalaccounts

Made in Italy

Voglio il ruoloteachers waiting for a job

http://www.voglioilruolo.it

OpenPolis – politiciansaccountability

http://www.openparlamento.it

Dipartimento per lo sviluppo ela coesione econimca

http://appsdps.mef.gov.it/apps/DPS%20eXplorer%203.7/index.html

Data visualization

Indicators

OpenBilancio (1/3)

http://alpha.openbilanci.linkedopendata.it

OpenBilancio (2/3)

OpenBilancio (3/3)

FutouringLazio tourism portal

geodata in collaboration with openstreetmap community - other data in CC-BY-SA

http://www.futouring.com

Open Community Data

OpenStreetMap as Best Practice

~

Map Compare (1/2)

Map Compare (2/2)

Some outputs(tools)

http:/www.maposmatic.orgBus Stop inforgraphicsKošice (SK)

Other example herehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services

Some outputs(companies)

Softcities.net

Social services

http://wheelmap.org

Project – crisis management

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Italian overview

Good communityMapping Party

M'appare Milano

Support from some italian public administration

Support from GFOSS.it and other initiatives (ex schools)

Map Compare - Trento

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=11.11372&lat=46.07098&zoom=18

Technical aspects

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Open data features

Complete Primary Timely Accessible Machine-readable

Non-proprietary License-free Reviewable

Discoverable Permanent Access

Redistribution Reuse Description

Metadata Attribution IntegrityAbsence of Technological Restriction

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Open Linked DataOpen Linked Data

★ make your stuff available on the Web

(whatever format) under an open license

★★ make it available as structured data

(e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)

★★★ use non-proprietary formats

(e.g., CSV instead of Excel)

★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people

can point at your stuff

★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context

http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/

Tim Berners Lee

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Linked Data IngredientsLinked Data Ingredients

Things have names (a person, a city, a company)

Let this names start with http://

Represent data (relations among things) as RDF

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

●Access/browse a global interconnected DB●Merge, mix data●Perform powerful cross-domain queries

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The Linking Open Data cloud diagram

http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

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The Data Hub

http://www.thedatahub.org

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Conclusions

Implement a communication strategy● Ex http://data.wien.gv.at

Improve the relation with the communities● Ex. OpenStreetMap as laboratory

– http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Palestine–

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