Presentation given by J Carter at the Appsterdam luchtime meeting in April 2012 detailing what has happened after the competitions were won

1. Beyond the competition
Jonathan Carter
Glimworm IT
jc@glimworm.com
@jonathanrcarter

2. A Happy
Story

3. What has happened
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We won the PICNIC hackathon with
Parkshark
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We won the Apps voor Nederland with
Vistory
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We entered 2 Hacks in Hack Day Paris and
got some honourable mentions

4. What
happened
next

5. ●
Invited to talk at a DIVV internal meeting
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Invited to participate at open Data Cafe
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Invitation to input to
Smart City SDK
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Commercial work
for CITION

6. ●
Invited to present to policy committee in
den Hague about app making
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Invited by the UK embassy to an event for
UK/NL creative entrepreneurs
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Building relationships
with cultural institutes
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Exploring commercial
opportunities

7. Our story is
listened to

8. What's the
story?

9. ●
Open Data is not necessarily useful data
– Manage expectations
– Pursue a tipping point
Developers
Data
Open Data

11. ●
About the data
– Make sure it is complete useable
– Write background information
– Actively ask the community for feedback
– Be prepared to improve the data
– Provide a contact person
– Real time is best, otherwise update regularly

13. ●
Use the language of the developer
– Provide some specific challenges
– If possible use english as well as dutch
– Provide json
– Provide rest
– GEO : google maps not KML
– Understand who you are dealing with

14. ●
Especially consider the indie developer
– Make sure a creative mind can understand
the data
– Provide calculations and business rules
– Provide a way to contact you
– Don't force the developer to create a server
infrastructure

16. Progress

17. Open Data Cafe
March 2012

19. There is
a lot more
going on

22. Questions
we are
asked

23. ●
Will there be a secondary market of
worth billions?
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Politicians answer : yes
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Our answer : no

24. ●
Are there common standards
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Answer from politicians : don't know
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Our answer : no

25. ●
Will this become a problem
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Answer : yes

27. ●
What is the endpoint
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Our answer : Government as a platform

28. ●
What is the biggest threat
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Our answer : badly published data

29. What can
we all do?

30. ●
What do we really need?
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To Use the data
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To innovate
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How can we help and inform
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Data owners
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Policy makers
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Can we give a list of our priorities?