The presentation at the summer school of the GEospatial and Space Technology consortium for Innovative Social Services in Tokyo University Komaba Campus. http://gestiss.org/g-spase/summerschool/

1. Change the world with
open source software and
content
Hal Seki
1 Aug 2013 , GESTISS Summer School
http://slideshare.net/hal_sk/
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2. Hal Seki @hal_sk
Geo developer for
business:
community:
people:
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3. Confidential
motivation
Making the world better place to live
with geolocation technologies.
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4. Confidential
Today I’d like to explain
• How open source softwares
change the world.
• Why open data is important
for social changes.
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5. I've been impressed in people's power
through operating below project.
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6. Provide and aggregate
disaster information by
formatting them using
geolocation data.
Mission
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7. sinsai.info
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8. 8Wednesday, July 31, 13

9. 95%+ of reports have been collected
from Twitter by volunteers half manually
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10. Statistics
12,000+ reports
1,000,000+ PV in first one month
650,000+ unique visitors
* not include API access
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11. And supported by:
Total number
Moderators 100+
Developers 100+
Translators 10+
Operated by volunteers
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12. Based on Open Source Software 'Ushahidi'
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14. • We could launch Sinsai.info just only 4 hours
after the earthquake happen.
• We learned not only technical things but also
‘solutions’ from the ‘tested’ platform.
• World-wide volunteers helped us because
Ushahidi had a strong community, and had
been translated into several languages.
• We ported back our source code to original
code-base.
Why open source was important?
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15. https://github.com/whitehouse
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16. Confidential
Today I’d like to explain
• How open source softwares
change the world.
• Why open data is important
for social changes.
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17. What is OpenData?
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18. Idea that certain data should
be freely available to everyone
to use and republish as they
wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
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19. http://okfn.org/opendata/
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20. http://opendatahandbook.org
•Availability and Access
•Reuse and Redistribution
•Universal Participation
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21. Open Data in
Government
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22. • Transparency
• Releasing social and commercial value.
• Participation and engagement
Three common reasons of Open (Gov)
Data.
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23. Value chain of OpenData businesses
Open Data (Public Sector Information)
Companies make services
For Citizens
For Governments
For Companies
Citizen participant
Government
Economic growth
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24. http://data.gov
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25. http://oakland.crimespotting.org
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26. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-
open-data-charter-and-technical-annex
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27. http://datameti.go.jp/data/
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28. Summit
Developers
Developers Summit 2013 Action !
http://www.city.sabae.fukui.jp/pageview.html?id=11552
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29. Summit
Developers
Developers Summit 2013 Action !
http://spending.jp/
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30. International Spending Data Party
July 20-21
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31. • Open data is the platform of people
participant.
• Open source softwares are a workable
solution catalog in the world.
• Civic community is a key of open
government and citizen participant.
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32. Code for Japan connects citizens to
government using Civic-Tech
Government
Citizen
Civic-tech
Community
Code for Japan
Soluttion/
Services
Join
Participant
Open data
Volunteer
work
UseFeedback
UseFeedbackSupport
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33. http://codeforkanazawa.org/
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34. Code for Japan was just stared this
month. You can join us!
Please visit http://code4japan.org/
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35. Thank you for your time
feedback welcome
http://twitter.com/hal_sk
while (Japan.recovering) {
we.hack();
}
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