sustaining open data innovations
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Luke Closs presents his thoughts on how to build innovations from open data that can be sustained in the long term.TRANSCRIPT
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Sustaining Open Data Innovation
Luke ClossFounder & CTO, OpenWest Systems
@lukec - http://openwe.st
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Speaker Background• Based in Vancouver, BC
• Telecomm, Anti-spam, Collaboration
• Long walks, HTTP, Open Web
• Co-founder of Vancouver Hack Space• VanTrash, Budget visualization, gut, Parliament scrapers, Corporate
registry tools, Election finance tools, Recollect, Open Data catalogues, Marine AIS Traffic, CKAN, datadotgc.ca, sidewalk chalk dataviz, hackathons, Open Data Day, …
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Goals of this Talk• Inspire
• Visualize
• Realistic
• Tools
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Part 1: VanTrash
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The Beginning
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A few months later…
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❤
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There is something here!
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How can we bring this to more people?
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Problem:
Cities don’t embrace hacks.
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Ideas & Hacks
InfrastructureProjects Products Services
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Ideas & Hacks
InfrastructureProjects Products Services
Many of these ideas will “fail”.That’s okay.
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Ideas & Hacks
InfrastructureProjects Products Services
The good innovations typically move to the right.
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Ideas & Hacks
InfrastructureProjects Products Services
Established VendorsCitizens
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Realization:
Cities are missing out.
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Ideas & Hacks
InfrastructureProjects Products Services
Cities miss out, these solutions are too cheap!
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Nobody will use this!• City won’t use it.
• City won’t link to it.
• City would need a SLA.
• No business to provide a SLA.
• Cost would be too low.
• Project will probably die out.
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Why is that bad?• The city can’t do cheap things
• The city can’t collaborate with citizens
• This limits opportunity for new vendors to provide greatly cheaper services.
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Realization:
Only way to achieve goals: Charge $$$
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Part 2:Business Models
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Tangent: Org Hacks• Co-operatives
• For-profit
• Non-profit
• Use the right type(s)!
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So you want to build a business!
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Business Model Canvas
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Use it to:Describe / Discuss / Create / Invent / Improve
your business model
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ValueCost
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My BM Gen Process• Brainstorm every possible idea / detail
• Stare at it & Discuss
• Split into distinct business models
• Compare / Contrast
• Will it blend!?
• Try, learn, iterate!
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4 Business Models
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Citizen Funded
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Citizen Funded• Requires marketing strength
• Doesn’t require a sales team
• Hard to market to target customers
• (Non-techie citizens)
• Few barriers to get started
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City Funded
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City Funded• Sell to municipal decision makers
• Requires sales team
• Typically looooong sloooow sale
• City handles marketing
• Administration features, cost reduction
• Can’t be too cheap, or too expensive!
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Infrastructure Service
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Infrastructure Service• Market to developers, no sales team.
• Make it easy for hackers to use in their town.
• Create new innovations on the service
• Too niche?
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Public Open Source Service (POSS)
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POSS• Idea by @Progrium - bit.ly/VJU1Mg
• Citizens collectively pitch in to cover costs
• Donations => Bank account => Hosting fees
• $$ / burn rate = months of service.
• No profit incentive to expand, enhance
• Good for small, very cheap services
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Part 3:Building Recollect
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Step 1:Re-designRe-brand
Re-architectRe-build
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Initial thought:Cities are too much work!
Let’s sell to citizens!
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➨
Pivot #1
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Customer Development• “Get out of the building”
• Learn current pains
• Talk in their language
• Understand the buyers & their process
• Experiment with pricing
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Funding?• Finding money for civic startups is hard
• VC’s don’t like selling to governments!
• “Cool, but what’s your plan B?”
• We said no (so far!):
• Can’t get off the treadmill
• No masters
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So... don’t quit your day job!
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Building a open data
company ishard work.
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It helps to have a solid background
& experience.
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Don’t call yourself a startup!
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It’s not about open data!
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Scraping data doesn’t always make
friends!
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When your hobby becomes your
business, priorities change!
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Part 4:Recollect Today
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Product that istruly unique
in the market.
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Truly amazing collaboration with
City of Ottawa
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(~60% of Ottawa households have used Recollect!)
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> 100,000 Garbage day reminders sent!
(Already!)
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~40,000 Calendars printed at home.
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Growing our customer base,
across North America
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International Distribution Partners!
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Building a business.
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In Summary• Open data + Ideas + Hacks ➨Innovation
• Innovations + Time + Effort ➨ Products
• Building a open data company is:
• fucking hard
• fucking stressful
• fucking awesome