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1. @BartRosseau
E-Strategie
Stad Gent
Open Data in Ghent
23/06/2013

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LOADING CITY
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3. 4 years of Open Data
3d edition of Apps For
Ghent
Ghent Living Lab, Ghent
Web Valley, iMinds, City
of Ghent, OKFNbe

4. Why?
• Smart City
• Innovation
• Transparency

5. DATA
• Low Hanging Fruit
• Geo Data
• Streetnames
• Evolution: Real Time Data

6. Challenges
• Metadata, metadata, metadata
• Trying to understand the semantic web
• Vocabularies?

7. Co-creation
• Let people find the data
• Convince people to re-use the data
– Ghent living lab
– Students
• Show the added value to the administration
• European cooperation
– Citadel on the move
– Eurocities

8. Datatalks
Not just for coders
Impact of open data
Open data is more than App Development
(data journalism, data visualisation,
service delivery)

9. Inspiration Sessions
• Ghent Festival
• Geo Data
• Networking
between
developers,
ideators and civil
servants

10. Apps For Ghent
• Coding Sprint (6 hours)
• Keep the formula fresh
• Longevity of the ideas/apps
– AppsForEurope

11. And the winner is…
• Energy awareness game ENERXIA
• 9K City builder
• Pharmacy App
• http://hoedrukist.nu

12. Feedback
Crowdsourcing Data
What developments would the Ghent Citizens like?

13. And now?
• Open Gov
• Business development
• Beyond machine readability

14. Questions?
http://appsforghent.be
http://data.gent.be
http://ghentlivinglab.be
http://www.citadelonthemove.eu/
Twitter: @bartrosseau
e-strategie@gent.be