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A Case For OpenData
Why build it yourself when they’ll do it for you?
Robert Giggey
City of Ottawa
OPENDATA 101
[Free to use, reuse], and is machine readable
pretty to computers not the eyes
VS
think .xls, .kml, .xml, APIs, vs. PDF, .doc, .html
OpenData 101
so what?
the private sector AKA “real world”
1. data exchange
2. platforms
26 Built-In Apps, and
OpenData 101
Private sector
And for government?
the poster children
Source: The Next Web, Feb 2013
Revenue
OpenData 101
Private sector
Government
How do you move forward?
How do you move forward?
1. Google “US Digital Government” and “NYC Digital Roadmap”
2. Don’t get hung-up on “opendata”
3. Look at your web & app design process & build opendata into it.
And if you do build it they may still go somewhere else!
ottawa.ca/open
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