2. Only partially available
online
Formatted as web page or
PDF
Hard to search
Can’t subscribe
Can’t visualize
Can’t re-use
3. Publishing Structured Data Visualization
Feeds • Makes it easy to find new
patterns.
• Ability to subscribe to
interesting data
• Data streams can be ‘mashed’
in new ways.
Collaborative Crowdsourcing
Organization • Combines skills and input of
large numbers of people
• Tagging, Voting, Sharing
4. Governments publish
•
data streams
Governments
publish data
streams
3rd parties create tools for
•
analysis and oversight
3rd
Citizens collaboratively
•
Citizens
Issues are
Party monitor data
monitor their
resolved
streams
Tools
government
Citizens detect issues,
•
give feedback
Issues are
detected
Issues are resolved
•
6. Web-oriented Architectures:
“have a much greater potential
effect on the ability to transform
government than anything else in
the Web 2.0 world.”
- Gartner, 2007
The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0
11. Ounces of gold produced, Goldcorps Market Value
Red Lake Mine (1000s) (Millions)
500 20000
50
50
1993 2007 1993 2007
Golden challenge unearths new ideas: Globe and Mail, April 2007.
13. [The Goldcorps President] realized that the
uniquely qualified minds to make new discoveries
were probably outside the boundaries of his
organization, and by sharing some intellectual
property he could harness the power of collective
genius and capability
[4]
25. Publishing Structured Data Visualization
Feeds • MAPLight makes relationship
between money and votes
• MAPLight is a mashup of
visible.
data streams from different
sources.
Collaborative Crowdsourcing
Organization • Thousands of journalists,
• Advocacy group tags advocates, and citizens can
browse data and flag issues.
donating companies as
belonging to interest groups.
26. Open Systems Make
Failure Free.
* paraphrasing Clay Shirky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/1308955915/
31. “An online compliance checklist for
designers of government websites identifies
no fewer than 24 different regulatory
regimes with which all public government
web sites must comply.”
-David Robinson, Princeton Center for Information Policy.
“Government Data and the Invisible Hand”
33. Regulations.gov
• Launched • Re-designed
• Limited Search • Re-launched
• Hard to Use • Added RSS Feeds
2003 2008
(+few months)
• Pared down interface
OpenRegulations.org • Easy to navigate
*From: Government Data and the Invisible Hand, David Robinson,
Princeton Center for Information Policy.
39. OLD NEW
*From: Power of Information Task Force blog, June 2008.
40. OLD NEW
*From: Power of Information Task Force blog, June 2008.
41. Access
Treasury
Board
Reporting
Department
Reporting
Auditor
General
Access
*From: Government Data and the Invisible Hand, David Robinson,
Princeton Center for Information Policy.
42. An Architecture for Open
Access
Treasury
External
Groups
Board
Reporting
Department
Reporting Auditor
General*
External
Groups
Access
* Save tax dollars.
49. 5 Transparency Pledges
Transparency Reform
Source Code:
Measurable Campaign
Change-Congress.org
Promises
(Lawrence Lessig and Joe
Trippi) Publish MP Schedules
Candidate info scraped from
Eliminate Data Access
party websites Fees
10 days to implement Access to Information
Reform
50.
51. 38 MPs elected
2 agreed to publish their
calendar
59. Standardize Stream Visualize
• Scrape data into • Publish RSS • Provide basic
standard format feeds visualization app
• Hold contests
60. Records collected so far.
30,000
Volunteers.
4
Errors found.
155
Visualization company
1 engaged.
Lawyer making sure things
1 are on the up-and-up.
61. Start small, easy
Analyze
Process
Build community
Track
Time
Gain acceptance
Programs
Make open normal
Expose Data
63. As a C.S. Student
• Start a VisibleGovernment.ca campus chapter
• Host coding weekends for open government projects
• Encourage your profs. to assign VisibleGovernment.ca projects
in class
As a C.S. Prof.
• Assign VisibleGovernment.ca projects / contest entries in class
As a Community Leader
• Help organize a ChangeCamp Montreal
• Voice your opinion on ‘VisibleGovernment.ca Discuss’
65. Photo Credits:
[1] 234 social media marketing examples, beingpeterkim
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beingpeterkim/2909140600/
[2] Printing Press, Thomas Hawk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/172495285/
[3] Gold Bars, Curtis Perry http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisperry/56998544
[4] Where’s Wally?, McGarry http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgarry/111003432
[5] Eye see you!, dotbenjamin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/2636942186
[6] Auntie P.'s ruler, John Edgar Park
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgar/355067220
[7] Chemical Reaction, Neys http://www.flickr.com/photos/neys/2386865187
[8] Landmark Supermarket Trinoma, bredgur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bredgur/2655954991
[9] Cisco 2950, Marco Wessel http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhw/91952572/
66. Photo Credits:
[10] Hanging Boken Bulb II, bitzcelt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitzcelt/450640323/
[11] United Colors of Legotton, Guillermo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grdloizaga/817425185
[12] Rotterdam: abstract architecture, docman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/2216568210
[13] Roadblock, iboy daniel http://www.flickr.com/photos/iboy_daniel/83671284
[14] just take my hand let's fly away, funkyah
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkyah/2400889778/
[15] Amelia Earheart, missrougue,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missrogue/297606078/
[16] Dave Wants You, Chris Owens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutter/105497713
[17] Robots Attack, Andy Wilson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/by_andy/2646443630/