1. Enhancing the health of our
Natural Capital with Open Data
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
November 15, 2012.

2. Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements …. big thank you to the
following folks for input and support
– Latornell Organizing Committee and volunteer teams
– Don Pearson and Chris Wilkinson, Conservation
Ontario
– David Suzuki Foundation
– Open Data community
• Presentation will on www.slideshare.net/jurykonga
Title slide photo credits: © Jury Konga
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3. Overview
• Open Data – defined with context
• Open Data Current State
• Community Wellness & State of
our Natural Capital
• Moving forward
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4. A Citizens Driven Priority View
Source: Suzanne Long from Toronto ChangeCamp 2009
Jury Konga
Data is essential… irrespective of domain!
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5. Open Data
- the new reality
• Starting point
• Roots in Freedom of Information legislation
- oldest identified with Sweden in 1766;
- U.S.A. 1966;
- Canada FOI as well as Privacy Act; 1983;
- Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and
Protection of Privacy Act, 1990
• More recently, Open Data seen as foundational
component of Open Government
• focuses on citizen engagement, transparency,
accountability, collaboration and innovation
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6. Open Data
- the new reality
• Early in the
“new era” of
open data
• Gaining
acceptance &
momentum
• How - similar
approach but …
unique to each
organization
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7. Open Government
Community
Citizen
Engagement
Engagement Framework 2.0
Open Open
Citizen
Innovation
Engagement
Citizen
Data
Engagement • Core components
Open Hub: C3 – Open Data is
• Commons
foundational
• Communication
• Collaboration
Open Open
Citizen
Knowledge
Engagement
Citizen
Decisions
Engagement
• “Open Hub”: C3
Open
Citizen
Supporting Economics
Engagement Infrastructure
• Supporting
Infrastructure
• Policy & • Data
Standards • Financial &
• Technology Human Resources
Leadership & Governance
Version 2 of 2010 Open Government Framework
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8. This is
NOT
Open
Data
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9. Defining Open Data
“A piece of content or data is open to anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
opendefinition.org/
Open Data is a foundational component for Open
Government and focuses on freely making public data
available in a usable format for all to re-use and add value
for the benefit of citizens.
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10. Open Data Attributes
Discoverable Redistribute
Use
ReUse
Machine
Readable
$ Minimal
Attribution
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11. Current State
- A Global View … it’s pervasive
Over 55 participating countries
Over 189 Open Data portals
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12. Current State
- National & Provincial Level
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13. Current State
- the Ontario Municipal scene
Others in planning &
implementation stages
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14. Open Data Value Proposition
- Analytics for Community Improvements
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15. Open Data Value Proposition
- Re-Use of Data via Applications
• BC Apps 4 Climate
Action
• App Winner: Waterly
• Tracks recent rainfall
near your home
• Notifies by email
when you don't need
to water your lawn
• No more need to
water just because it is
your watering day
• Benefits citizens, the
community and
mother nature
Created by http://www.dynamic-solutions.com/
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16. Open Data Value Proposition
- Re-Use of Data via Applications
Community Driven and Supplied Solutions
http://www.opendatabc.ca/projects.html
Thanks to Herb Lainchbury, Open Data BC for reference
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17. Open Data Value Proposition
- Visualization + Data
• Dynamic
visualization
based on
neighbourhoods
• User control
over well-being
indicators &
weighting
• Option to
download data
for re-use !
• New features on
the way
Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Research
http://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/
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18. Measuring our Community Wellness
- FCM Quality of Life Reporting System
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19. Measuring our Community Wellness
- Canadian Index of Wellness(CIW)
Indicators Circa 2001 Composite Index
What’s wrong with this picture?
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/CompositeIndex.html
http://ciw.ca/reports/en/History/Indicators_of_Quality_of_Life_in_Canada.sflb.pdf
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20. Measuring our Environmental Wellbeing
• Parameters are from
Canadian Index of
Wellbeing
• Overarching: Air,
Land and Water –
are there parameters
missing?
• How well are we set
up to collaborate on
this?
http://ciw.ca/en/CanadianIndexOfWellbeing/DomainsOfWellbeing/Environment.html
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21. Measuring our Natural Capital Health
• Ecological “footprint
exceeded the Earth’s
biocapacity – the area of
land and productive oceans actually
available to produce renewable
resources and absorb CO2
emissions
• Living Planet Index:
- 28% since 1970
• Stats circa 2008
- we need real-time
data
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22. Measuring the Health of our Natural Capital
“The vision of the Natural Capital
Project is a world in which people,
governments, and corporations
recognize the values of natural capital
– embodied in Earth's lands, waters
and biodiversity – in supporting
human well-being, and routinely
incorporate these values into decision-
making.”
Standardized Science for Secure Water Are There Too Many People on the Planet?
Science Chronicles August 6th, 2012 Science Chronicles August 6th, 2012
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23. Issues, Challenges, Metrics
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24. Issues, Challenges, Metrics
• Key issues via David
Climate Change
Suzuki Foundation
• With our natural and
built systems –
everything is
Freshwater Health Oceans connected to
everything
• How do we measure
our overall health or
Wildlife and Habitat wellbeing?
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25. Moving Forward …
- what’s our Current State
• In local government, there is a “hard” infrastructure deficit in
Canada of $123B (2007) & requires attention
• What’s Canada’s Natural Capital/Ecosystem deficit?
- “Harder to peg” … need agreed to standards
• Need to open data, standardize process and analyse the data
to derive a current state assessment at local, provincial,
national and global scales … set goals & action plan to
address
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26. Moving forward
- World Wide Environmental Sensor Web
… real time feeds
Federal
Municipal
Government
Provincial Government
Government
BIG Environmental Community
Citizens
Data Ontario -> Earth Groups
NGO
Conservation Researchers
Authorities Universities
… Replicate for every jurisdiction
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27. Moving forward
- leverage what already Exists
Enhanced coordination & data integration will benefit the community
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28. Moving forward
- leverage Resources already in Place
Enhanced coordination & resource sharing will benefit the community
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29. Moving forward
… as an Inclusive Community
Need to leverage our
Community Intellectual Capital
and resources Government
Citizens &
Community NGO
Groups
Academia Private
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30. Moving forward
– Create Collaborative teams
“Humans are fundamentally dependent on
ecosystems for survival, yet our awareness and
understanding of this critical connection is
fragmented. Our health and well-being
are affected by the quality of our
natural environment: it both supports
and impacts health. Both individual species
and the health of the public flourish when they
have access to clear air, clean water and
productive soil.”
“There is an as-yet-untapped
community of practice that is committed
to shedding light on the links between ecology
Source: www.conservationontario.ca/NESH/Watershed_Health_FINAL.pdf
and health in our society.”
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31. Moving forward
… with collaborative sectors
Leverage our Sectoral Intellectual Capital
and resources including … Environment &
Conservation
Community
& Health Land Use
Services Planning
Economic Infrastructure
Development Management
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32. Moving forward
… with inter-jurisdictional collaboration
Open Data Ontario Open Data CO ?
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33. Moving forward …
Open Data Maturity Model
Five Phases of Open Data
5 Global
4 Integration
3 Open Enterprise
Data Open Data
2 Data Portal
Catalog
1 Startup Evolutionary within
Info Management Best Practices
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34. Concluding thoughts …. 1
• Open Data has become an imperative
– Make it a community and corporate Policy
Open Data + Integrated Community Analyses =
Integrated
Enhanced
Decision
Community
Making
Analyses
& Policy
Development
(& MUCH more)
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35. Concluding thoughts …. 2
• Common Baseline :
Develop a local -> Provincial -> National -> Global
Natural Capital/Ecosystem Wellbeing index
Global
Common Parameters
National
Wellbeing Provincial
Local
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36. Concluding thoughts …. 3
• Collaboration is essential & benefits all
Need to optimize our resources – physical,
financial and intellectual capital
Source: Jury Konga, “Collaboration 2.0
- Leveraging Today’s Technology for Tomorrow’s Challenges”
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37. Concluding thought
• We need to start now!
… the well-being of our natural capital requires it
© Jury Konga © Jury Konga © Jury Konga © Jury Konga
“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast”
and Collaborate Large
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38. Thank You
Jury Konga, Principal
eGovFutures Group
jkonga@sympatico.ca
Twitter @jkonga
Skype jury.konga
www.slideshare.net/jurykonga