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OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA MOVEMENT
• Timeline
2009 United States
2010 United Kingdom
2011 European Union
06/2012 Stadt Zürich
09/2013 Federal Government
10/2013 Canton of Zurich
today more than 50 countries run their own OGD initiatives
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OGD IN ZURICH
• Legislation Agenda Focus eZürich
• Zurich strives to be one of the world‘s
leading cities in ICT, where advanced
infrastructure enables creative solutions
and new trends
• City Council mandates Statistik Stadt
Zürich (SSZ) to implement OGD policy
• SSZ creates OGD portal and publishes 30
datasets
• Nothing really happens …
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OGD IN ZURICH
• Legislation Agenda Focus eZürich
• Zurich strives to be one of the world‘s
leading cities in ICT, where advanced
infrastructure enables creative solutions
and new trends
• City Council mandates Statistik Stadt
Zürich (SSZ) to establish OGD processes
• SSZ creates OGD portal and publishes 90
datasets
• Nothing really happens…
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OGD IN ZURICH
• OGD Portal
• 200 datasets (98 with spatial content – shp, wms, wfs, kml, geojson)
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100
150
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250
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02/13
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06/13
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08/13
09/13
10/13
11/13
12/13
01/14
02/14
03/14
04/14
Number of Datasets on OGD Portal
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
01/13
02/13
03/13
04/13
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06/13
07/13
08/13
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02/14
03/14
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Number of Applications
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OGD-PORTAL – DATASET SELECTION
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DATA INTEGRATION
• Combination of spatial and thematic data
• Unique identifiers (indices and numbers) for spatial entities
(city circles, districts, parcels)
• Extensive metadata facilitates processes
• Use of names as unique identifiers can be problematic
contrasting official and commonly used notations
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EXCUSES
• Reasons not to release data
• Apathy / Confusion
„you mean people are really interested in this?“
„how would someone even use that kind of data!“
• Rage against the bureaucracy
„there will be unending data releases!“
„we don‘t have time!“
• Staff Concerns
„my boss hasn‘t told me to and you‘re not my boss!“
„we don‘t have anyone who knows how to do that.“
• Heavy Hitters (Legality, Security, Privacy)
„it‘s not classified, but we don‘t think it would be good PR for us.“
„people don‘t understand my data!“
http://sunlightfoundation.com
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CONCLUSIONS
• It‘s just the beginning
• Need for a lot of grassroot activity
• We still need pressure from the top
• Still a few very old-fashioned decision-makers
„Clash of the generations“
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OPEN DATA THEORY VS. REALITY
• Innovation boost
beneficial to economy and society
• Cost effectiveness
multiple use of datasets
• Transparency
free access to governmental data and information
• Participation and cooperation
people get the chance to participate in public decision
making process
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OPEN DATA THEORY VS. REALITY (OUR VIEW)
• Innovation boost
beneficial to economy and society
• Cost effectiveness
multiple use of datasets
• Transparency
free access to governmental data and information
• Participation and cooperation
people get the chance to participate in public decision
making process
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ONGOING PROJECTS 2014
• Organisation
• Consolidate the OGD team for 2014
• «OGD by default»
• Data
• Widening of the datasets provided
• Technology
• Implementation of CKAN in the city administration
• Community
• Intensify community building
• Organise hackdays, regular‘s tables, data talks, etc.
Wanna show how OGD at Stadt Zürich works and how it began…
Difficulties we experience in our daily business
Sunlightfoundation sums up the 58 most common excuses why NOT to release open data…
And it‘s exhilarating, because it REALLY is like that
Clash of the generations
Political Pressure to cooperate with us
Young open minded people working for OGD Stadt Zürich on the one side,
People that got told for decades that their data is confidential
People that are not used to other data formats than MS Word or Excel, not speaking of the conversion of into other formats
Innovation boost
development of Apps and Tools that generate value
Cost effectiveness
mutliple use of the same datasets, that otherwise several instances would have produced parallel
Transparency
free access to information about for example how the government invested your tax money
Participation and cooperation
people can give feedback or generate data by themselves maybe Tobi can tell you more on that later…