Open Data in Transport and

Communications

Taru Rastas

Communication policy department, Internet Services

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Data guide

What is open data? How to get started? Steps and examples

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Geographical data as a key enabler

Also weather data, postal codes…

HERE by Nokia

Google maps

Finnish national geoportal by The National Landsurvey of Finland

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Finnish open data policy thinking Measures are taken to further the accessibility

of the public sector's digital information resources– active provision of data

Evidence rationalize– services and applications emerge as data

is made available

EU Digital Agenda highlights open data – open single markets

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Finnish open data policy actions Government resolution to increase re-use of public sector

data (March 2011) Government programme (2011-2015) GIDE strategy: open data and pilots (2011 on-going)

Availability of public data working group (Ministry of Transport and Communications 2011)

Act on Information Management Governance in Public Administration (forced in June 2011)

Charging policy and technical interface standards (2012) Information Resources for Research (Ministry of Education

and Culture 2012 on-going) Open data programme (Ministry of Finance 2013 ongoing)

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Transport and communications (incl. weather data) open data

Working group – Ministry of Transport and Communications with agencies

and authorities– Roadmap published in April 2013

TasksIdentification of data resources and prioritization Clarification and harmonization of practises Technical and administrative development Legislative issues on re-use and interoperabilityEnhancing co-operative models to support use of data

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Interoperability, platforms & practises- maintenance, quality, development

Data sets to be opened with no restrictions

Restrictions

Open data sets

• 17 data sets

• For example: Public transport timetables and routes nationally, 24h weather forecasts, Digiroad

• 5 data sets• For example: Information security indicents (cert-fi)

•42 data sets• For example: Driving licence data

Opening

• Machine readable

• Publication mode

• Effects

• Finance

Partial opening?

• Copyrights

• Anonymisation

• Regulation

• Identification, user permits

Promotion

• Accessibility, open licenses, APIs

ACTIONS:

Step1:Identified data reserves

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Step2: Transport and communications open data roadmap

Timeline visualisation http://floapps.planeetta.com/lvm/timeline/index.php

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Step 3: Shared data for situation awareness (pilot) Communications, transport, energy networks

and weather data for exceptional situations – storms, environment crisis, accidents etc.

Project in co-operation with Code4Europe– Fellow recruitment

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Open infrastructure challenges VISIBILITY

– portals, websites, service directories, multi-channels etc. CONSISTENCY

– described in a coherent manner – information architecture, metadata repository

EFFICIENCY– support services to facilitate the use - clearing house function,

help desk, competence building– long-term funding – first-step cost sharing between stakeholders

e.g. income from selling data and interface services SCALABILITY

– maintenance and distribution e.g. cloud, open interfaces DEMAND DRIVEN

– prioritization of datasets, engagement with developers, monitoring use

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Data portal

http://data.suomi.fi

Ministry of Finance is running the project for data portal

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Promoting service and application development

Developing culture of openness - attitude

Betas - piloting Developer community

dialogue Research - impacts International co-operation Apps and problem solving

competitions

Helsinki Region Infoshare

www.hri.fi

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Examples

”Public transport GPS navigator”

”Tax receipt”

ParkMan

”Library book finder”

Blindsquare

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Background materials

Further information

contact:taru.rastas@lvm.fi

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What is open data

Data which is made available for re-use – machine readable (technical)– common licences (legal) – free of charge (economical)

Public data: handling not subject to statutory limitations Governments, companies, citizens all collect and use

data From data to reuse: services, applications, algorithms,

visualisations… Accessibility: requires action in a society – political and

collective issue

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GIDE project Finland's future is in digital services

To promote the growth of digital services by increasing public-private cooperation– Strategic partners, companies, associations, researchers, entrepreneurs and

people are called to join in

To draw up a roadmap for the digital economy in which the challenges of society have been converted into opportunities

– Experiments, pilots, new practises

Cross-sectoral action areas– Open data– Cloud services– Start up citizen– Green ICT– ICT&work– ICT research– ICT infrastructure

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Government resolution 3/2011http://www.lvm.fi/web/fi/tiedote/view/1234053

Policy lines and measures needed for improving the accessibility and increasing the reuse of digitalised public sector information resources in all areas of society

Lines and actions1. Data policies and legislation (1)2. Open infrastructure (2)3. Development of services and applications (3)