The Joy of Open Data

Presented at Croydon Tech City on 20th March 2014

Transcript

1. THE JOY OF OPEN DATA #croydon #techcity March 2014
2. Alex Bilbie @alexbilbie hello@alexbilbie.com
3. What is data?
4. What is open data?
5. “Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.” ! http://opendefinition.org/od/
6. Availability and access
7. Reuse and Redistribution
8. Universal Participation
9. Transport
10. Culture
11. Financial
12. Statistics
13. Environment
14. Geodata
15. Why open data?
16. Transparency
17. Participation and engagement
18. Social and commercial value
19. How open data can help me
20. Health
21. Cheeky takeaways
22. Teachers and students
23. Jobs
24. Apps
25. How open data can help businesses
26. Free data saves money
27. Transport for London
28. http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-app-part-1/
29. Data Journalism
30. Data as a platform instead of a commodity
31. How open data can keep government accountable
38. “Over the eight years of the Conservative administration in charge of the Town Hall, Croydon’s economy has been in decline. Businesses – Nestlé, Allders, Bank of America - have closed or left the borough, jobs in the borough have reduced by more than a quarter and opportunities are scarce, for young and old alike.
 With Croydon’s infrastructure and population, companies should be queuing up to move to this borough. Labour’s strategy is to create an ambitious and vibrant ‘place to be’.” ! Croydon Labour 2014 Manifesto
39. The Future
40. Quality drives quantity
41. 5* open data
42. Open data: data.gov.uk data.london.gov.uk data.croydon.gov.uk?
43. Open access: Open Knowledge Foundation
44. Transparent Government: UN backed Open Government Partnership
45. Fin. @alexbilbie hello@alexbilbie.com