Driving Innovation with Open Data

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Driving Innovation with Open Data

Jed Sundwall

Open Data

Amazon Web Services

©2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Speakers• Ian Kalin, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of

Commerce• Mark Chambers, Sustainability and Energy Management

Director, DC Department of General Services• Kim Becht, Deputy Director, Web Presence, International

Trade Administration• Yogesh Khanna, Chief Technology Officer, CSC North

American Public Sector

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

What is open data?Open data is data that can be used by anyone for any purpose for free.

Many of our customers, such as Esri, the Weather Company, and the Climate Corporation, rely on quality open data as much as they rely on our computing, storage, and other web services.

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Open data as a platform

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Open data as a platform

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Open data on AWSMaking data open on AWS enables more innovation by making data available for rapid access to our flexible and low-cost computing resources.

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Open data on AWSMaking data open on AWS enables more innovation by making data available for rapid access to our flexible and low-cost computing resources.

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Ian KalinChief Data OfficerU.S. Department of Commerce

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Mark ChambersSustainability and Energy Management DirectorDC Department of General Services

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

BuildSmartDC• More data. Less carbon.

Zero excuses.• Efficiency, cost and

emissions tracking• 30M ft2@400+ bldgs.• 50,000+ data points/day

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS powers BuildSmartDC• EC2 hosts the virtual machines that…

– Access external APIs– Serve the internal APIs that power BSDC

• S3 hosts…– Our static web assets– 1600+ daily-updated, publically-accessible CSV files with

building usage information

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

BuildSmartDC powers change

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Kimberly J. BechtDeputy Director, Web PresenceInternational Trade Administration

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Trade developer portal

http://developer.trade.gov

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Consolidated screening list• 3 agencies

– Department of Commerce– Department of State– Department of the Treasury

• 11 lists

• 1 data set

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

The data we have• Market research library• Consolidated screening list• Trade events• Trade leads• Tariff rates• FAQs on exporting• ITA offices & centers• Trade news and articles

And this is just a start!

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Yogesh KhannaChief Technology OfficerCSC North American Public Sector

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Thank You.This presentation will be loaded to SlideShare the week following the Symposium.

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015