Conclusions by Alexander De Croo, Bert Jehoul, Thimo Thoeye, Veronique Volders and Miel Vander Sande at Open Belgium 2017.

1. Closing panel: Learnings
and next steps
Open Belgium 2017 - 6 March 2017

2. Conclusions of Data Governance for Smart Cities - Thimo Thoeye
● ↗ interaction between different levels of gov’t, agencies, and
private parties necessary to come to integrated smart and
linked data
● ROI of open data may take a while, is difficult to measure, but
societal (social) impact should not be forgotten.
● connectivity infrastructure as enabler for smart solutions (5G,
FTTH) especially for real-time data
● Education!
● privacy and proper (open) data management are not at odds but
synergistic

3. 5-star Linked Open Council
Decision
#LBLOD
Lessons learned
Veronique Volders

4. “making local legislation available
…for humans & computers”
• End to end linked data
• No information loss & once only
• Open workshops
• Learn from users & related actors
• Relevancy for datacreation and availability for reuse
• Go for the 5 stars!
• Maximize information & return by linking
• Use or create open standards
• Get the data out of the software
• Open up the market for innovative players

5. Let’s talk Linked Data - Miel Vander Sande
Improve ways to share your Linked Data with
the government.
Expect less from publishers, so they can publish
more.
Linked Data history & archiving is gaining
importance.

6. Workshop Open Badges : We learned … that we have learned! - Bert Jehoul
Bridging the Skills Gap
(by Bryan Mathers, licensed CC-BY-ND)