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In many countries across the world, discussions, policies and developments are actively emerging around Open Data. It is believed that opening government data can have significant economic potential, generating new industries and innovations. This presentation provides a short introduction to Open Data, with a focus on available public data from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) - http://statistics.gov.rw. The presentation also explore the roles played by the group of actors involved in strengthening the Open Data ecosystem in Rwanda and the steps involved in monetizing open data.
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Open Data, Open Opportunities
Rajiv RanjanICT Advisor – NISR/UNDP
An introduction to open data, with a focus on available public data from NISR
Agenda
Knowing Open Data
Pioneers
Open Data in Rwanda
Demo
Monetizing Open Data
Open Data ecosystem
Benefits
Conclusion
What is Open Data?
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“Open data is a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data be freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control…”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
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“Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.”
- OpenDefinition.org
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Conditions for Open Data:
To be open, data must be accessible online, published without technical restrictions to re-use, and provided under a license that allows the data to be re-used without limitation, including across different "fields of endeavour" (i.e. commercial and non-commercial alike).
Open standards and machine readable
Pioneers
Data.gov.uk
Data.gov
Data.worldbank.org
Opendata.go.ke
What is so good about Open Data?
Open Data creates new markets!
Photo by Fisher- http://viewology.net/thai-hat-yai-klonghae-floating-market-pictures/622/
• Visualization• Analysis• Community Management• Mash up/Combining Data• APIs• Data Mining
etc.
Opportunities
Where to find Open Data in Rwanda?
Statistics.gov.rw
MicrodataIndicators (Time series)
DevInfoDevinfo.statistics.gov.rw
PrognozPrognoz.statistics.gov.rw
NADAMicrodata.statistics.gov.rw
IMISImis.statistics.gov.rw
Publications (PDFs) & (Data in Excel)
Survey information
SDMX Registry
Sdmx.statistics.gov.rw
Open Data Portal
Statistics.gov.rw
Statistics.gov.rw
Dissemination tools in NISR
Demo
Opportunities for businesses?
Key check points:• The idea• The data• The technology• The design/visual• The pitch
Examples
• Real estate/property data (houses for sale matched with data on real estate taxes, data on specific properties, etc (Zillow.com)
• Data for business intelligence (such as what Spikes Cavell Analytics offers to clients - spikescavell.net)
Thx to @JeffKaplan88 for the examples
Business Model?
Need to leverage collective intelligence
Government
Private sectorAcademia
Community groups
Open Data ecosystem
Conclusion
“There are substantial social and economic gains to be made from opening government data to the public. The combination of geographic, budget, demographic, services, education, and other data, publically available in open format on the web, promises to improve services as well as create future economic growth.”
- Open Data Study, May 2010(http://www.soros.org/reports/open-data-study)
Thank you!
rajivranjan.org
