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