Open Data in Cape Town, South Africa

CUGOS presentation April 2016

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1. Motivations, practices, and politics of open data in Cape Town, South Africa Britta Ricker, PhD University of Washington Tacoma Urban Studies & Geospatial Technologies
2. What was the first thing you did this morning ?
8. An improved sanitation facility is defined as one that hygienically separates human excreta from human contact. Globally 2.4 billion people live without access to improved sanitation: Almost 1 billion of these practice open defecation.
10. Informal Settlements
13. Dreams, bricks and bodies: mapping ‘neglected spatialities’ in African Cape Town (Dierwechter, 2004) • Dreams = planning, bricks= informal retail and bodies= pre-entrepreneurs • Neglected spatialities of contemporary urban experiences • ‘informailty’ has been part of the post apartheid solution in Cape Town (p. 977)
14. Power of Maps Knowledge politics: – greater weight given to knowledge expressed as quantitative or represented in cartographic forms
25. Risk reproducing inequalities. Call for active engagement to combat inequalities through modern forms of mapping. (Elwood, 2015)
26. Smart Cities Could help?
27. Taxonomy of data sources associated with “Smart Cities” Smart Cities Data Sources Ambient Internet of Things Big Data Directed Open Data
28. Open Data! The open data movement – the story goes – could variably democratize data access and knowledge production, unite cities and citizens, encourage transparent governance, strengthen democracy, and advance cities socially and economically (see European Commission, 2014; Sieber & Johnson, 2015; Zuiderwijk & Janssen, 2014). Grand proclamations have been met by a burgeoning critique however, which has identified its limited inroads outside of the wealthy cities of the Global North, co-optation by hackers and corporations (Kitchin, 2014), reinforcement of power relations (Gurstein, 2011), as well as concerns about neoliberal logics (Bates, 2012) and threats to social justice (Johnson, 2014).
29. World Design Capital 2014 Cape Town = Open Data
30. Models of open data provision (Sieber & Johnson 2015) o Data over the wall: Government publishing of open data o Code exchange: Government as open data activist o Civic issue tracker: Data from citizens to government o Participatory open data: open data as open government
31. Civic Open Data at a Crossroad (Sieber & Johnson 2015) o Conflicting motivations for open data o Shifting role of government o Fragility of mission accomplished
32. Cape Town: Data Over the Wall
33. other models are emerge… • Code exchange: open data activist • Civic issue tracker: Data from citizens to government • Participatory open data: open data as open government
34. Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading
36. Mobile Asset Management
37. Mobile Asset Management
40. Public Participatory GIS
41. Public Participatory GIS
42. Public Participatory GIS
44. Cape Town: Data Over the Wall
45. Code for South Africa
46. Civic Hacking “Easter Egg Hunts” Data Journalism Living Wage Calculator
47. Code for Cape Town @code4ct
48. Code for Cape Town @code4ct
49. Hector Eliott @hectoreliott Head of Ministry: Transport and Public Works Western Cape
50. Open Data Observed o Data over the wall o Code exchange o Civic issue tracker o Participatory open data
51. Data are there for you to comb • Open data is an unfamiliar concept • People don’t want to share data • People don’t know how to contribute • People don’t understand GIS
52. Data are there for you to comb • Open data is an unfamiliar concept • People don’t want to share data • People don’t know how to contribute • People don’t understand GIS These are not barriers for YOU!
54. You can help! = Tourism
55. Cape Town has penguins
57. Digital Volunteer Tourism
58. The Path Forward: home and abroad • Lessons Learned – HOST An EASTER EGG HUNT! – Build tools for those who can use them • Make Maps post them on the web • Write emails & tweet to leaders
62. Thanks! Financial Support: University of Washington Office of Global Affairs Strategic International Partnership Award Acknowledgments: Yonn Dierwechter, Don Shay, Chris Berens (VPUU) Adi Eyal (Code4SA). Shoeshoe Letoao Dr.Cinnamon