Crowdsourcing the Local Data Census
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The document discusses the concept of 'smart cities' in Belgium, emphasizing the importance of open data and citizen engagement in developing efficient urban environments. It outlines a local data census framework, which includes conditions for dataset accessibility and a collaborative approach to identifying necessary datasets through events and surveys. The initiative aims to enhance accountability and awareness of open data efforts across local governments in Belgium.
Crowdsourcing the Local Data Census
- 1. ! Crowdsourcing the LOCAL DATA CENSUS (and through that hopefully stimulate smart and open cities in Belgium)
- 2. Open Definition “Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).” — http://opendefinition.org/
- 3. Smart City Definition A city can be defined as ‘smart’ when investments in human and social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory action and engagement. (Caragliu et al. 2009). To Gildo Seisdedos Domínguez, the smart city concept essentially means efficiency. But efficiency based on the intelligent management and integrated ICTs, and active citizen participation. Then implies a new kind of governance, genuine citizen involvement in public policy. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
- 4. Chicken vs. egg Local Open Data vs. Citizen Developers To stimulate citizen development we need cities with Open Data Hackathons / Data Dives / Etc… To stimulate cities having Open Data we need citizen developers Data stories / Local Data Census / Etc…
- 5. Local Data Census — http://gb-city.census.okfn.org/
- 6. Conditions of Local Data Census! • Data exists • It’s Digital • It’s publicly available • It’s free of charge • It’s online (URL) • It’s machine readable • It’s available in bulk • It’s openly licensed • It’s up-to-date
- 7. Problem These are not the datasets you are looking for You must find your own balance of datasets
- 8. Process -Public servants -Open Data Experts -Smart Citizens Who knows which Open Datasets are needed in a smart city?
- 9. Solution? 1. Host a live event to start the discussion.! ! 2. Host an online Wiki Survey. ! ! 3. Finalise the discussion within our Open Belgium community! ! 4. Implement this final list of datasets (±15) and start incentivising cities and open data enthusiasts to add datasets
- 10. Live Event Before we started:! 6 topics 15 standard datasets ! one hour later: ! 8 topics +environment +infrastructure 26 datasets +20 people
- 11. Online public consultation TEXT —Pairwise voting by http://allourideas.org/
- 12. Results 1500 votes, 8 new dataset suggestions, anonymous ranking. — http://openbelgium.be/2014/09/results-of-wiki-survey-and-final-steps/
- 13. Involve our ambassadors • If these suggested datasets are found at local governments! • Regardless of the size (city or small municipality)! • Regardless of location within Belgium (regional differences)! • With a good mix of easy and hard to obtain datasets! • And a good mix between the different subjects or categories Because we still needed to determine the top 15 We needed to know:
- 14. Involve our Canambassadors Is it available in the municipal ity? Can we ask this from all municipal ity?
- 15. Final Stage Invite all cities and open data enthousiasts to add their open data efforts onto the Belgian Local Data Census.
- 16. Future? Open Belgium Barometer of local, regional and federal open data efforts — http://theodi.github.io/open-data-barometer-viz/
- 17. First Conclusions about our crowdsourcing efforts It takes a while to :! • give shape to this process • go through the whole process But at the end you have:! • relevant list of datasets • better accountability • bigger awareness
- 18. Questions? Extra information ! http://census.okfn.org/ http://openbelgium.be/2014/09/results- of-wiki-survey-and-final-steps/ http://openbelgium.be/2014/08/ choose-local-open-data-with-us/ ! ! Contact Information! pieter-jan.pauwels@okfn.org 0032 476 66 27 77 openbelgium.be @PJPauwels