Open Data Endeavors in Amsterdam

Open Data Days,19 th Febr 2014, Ghent

Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy

Advisor@KatalinG

Open Data Controversial for Local Governments

Open Data chances are unrevealed for governments.

Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy but curiosity (something big, exciting with Open Data is coming)

Who to choose? What to choose?-Linked Data -Data Visualization -Data Mining are unexploited

Loc Gov need a helping hand and collaboration on Open Data

Vendor Fusion

Vocabularies Policy Makers

“What is the evidence that we should release datasets?”

“How many start ups have been created since we launched the first datasets”

“Can Open Data repair a market failure, inefficiency?”

Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

Precarious Open Data Policies

Connected24 hours

• Citizens

• Opening, exchanging data between departments of the city hall

• External: hackathons still missing in Open Data scenario’s-Big Data Strategy-Meaning behind data (visualization, mining)-Interoperability of open data based apps-Civic App Store

Injecting Open Data best practices through EU projects to

cities

1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for Europe- WORKING WITH CODERS

Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

The Future - Commons

3. EU Data Project: City SDK (service development toolkit)

Our Open Data Portal (SCAN based)

• Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders • Business Accelerators• Innovation Intermediaries >>• EU Projects• Open minded Local Gov• Participatory citizens

Amsterdam – Strong Open Data Ecosystem partners

Open Data Ecosystem

Innovation Intermediaries

ICT tools,Funding, community

Transport Data Push

Cultural API demonstrator

• 30 apps have been launched (face recognition by portrays)

• High educational impact• Positive PR for the museum• Reach of new younger

target group

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api -110.000 high resolution photo’s of the collection

Rijksmuseum API

Community: Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

Open Data Observations1. Open Data Catalysts are strongly dependent on

external financing and networking - Liberate open data agents!

2. Vocabularies match between policy makers and open data catalyst

3. Produce user cases to discover the enormous underexploited value of data

4. Be careful with corporate Big Data providers5. Encourage cities to move toward Commons, peer

reviewed open data vendors

Open Data Observations6. Fresh injections of most state of art ICT solutions, trends (GitHub repositories, Open Source visualization tools) into city halls7. Introducing the concept of “Commons”, “Standards”, “civic coders”, “hackers”, “tech grassroots”8. Diving into an exclusive Open Data Catalysts- Smart Cities network (Enoll, World Bank, OKF, ODI, Future Cities Catapult, NESTA) 9. Promote interoperable app interfaces/sharing

Strong Open Data lobby needed: >>KEEP EYES WIDE SHUT<<

-extern financing -entrepreneurship & freedom for

experimentations-create Open Data ecosystem in your city (label)-Capture chances on Horizon2020, EUROCITIES

partner finding

But most important lesson learnt for cities>>BE INTERNALLY

INVINCIBLE<<-Build distributed internal capacities,

Knowledge around Open DataTools, standards

-Cities are vulnerable on the Big Data market without a solid knowledge

Thank you! Katalin Gallyas

gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl @katalinG