Open Data Portals & Civic Hacking

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1. Open Data Portals +
   Civic Hacking
   Stefan Oderbolz (@odi)
   #Hacks/Hackers
   29.09.2016
   

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4. Civic Hacker / Hacktivist
   ● Creative use of technology
   ● Transform data in machine-readable form
   ○ Provide APIs, if there is only raw data available
   ● Provide alternatives
   ○ Advance Open Source
   ● “Political” goals
   ○ Promote open knowledge
   ○ Help the local community
   

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6. Curiosity is the key
   ● How does it work? Was steckt dahinter?
   ○ e.g. am I able to reproduce the statistics in the official
   brochure of an upcoming vote?
   ○ How much does my community spend on waste
   collection/recycling?
   ● Before I’m able to change something, I have to
   understand it
   Ask questions, until you understand the topic!
   

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10. Examples of datasets
    ● Results of votes
    ● Tax revenue of natural persons
    ● Health insurance premiums
    ● National Map 1:1 million
    ● Bicycle lane network
    ● First names of newborns in Zurich
    

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12. There actually is Open Government Data!
    ● Open Data portals publish OGD:
    ○ opendata.swiss
    ○ data.stadt-zuerich.ch
    ● The government provides the (data) infrastructure
    ○ Raw data + interfaces (APIs)
    ○ Data processing by specialists (e.g. in the form of
    apps, visualizations, news articles, tools)
    

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14. What data is still hiding in the administration?
    ● There are treasures, that nobody yet knows about
    ● There is no complete data inventory
    ● You can only request known datasets
    

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15. Example: FragDenBundestag
    ● Wissenschaftlicher Dienst des Bundestags (“scientific
    service of the German Bundestag”) creates reports by
    request of delegates of the Bundestag, e.g.
    ○ Legal basis for flyovers
    ○ Participation of foreigners in plebicites
    ● List of reports was put online, so that citizens could
    request it
    ● Result: very many request, leading to a decision to make
    them directly available in the future
    

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17. Requests for data
    Feedback from the administration:
    “An actual request for data is a door
    opener. Without it, we have no proof
    of a need.”
    

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18. Requests for data
    ● Appreciation for Open Data Pioneers in the administration
    ○ Data Owner see new potential in their data
    ○ A request increases the legitimisation of collecting the
    data in the first place
    ● “Bottom-up” opening of data
    ○ Waiting for laws or regulations is tedious
    ○ Goal: Find data owners, that are willing to publish on
    their own
    

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20. Company register
    

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23. OpenERZ
    

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25. ParkenDD
    

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26. WHO
    ARE
    THE
    USERS
    ?
    

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28. Hackathons
    ● Intense events (24-48h)
    ○ Analyze data
    ○ Create, improve and discard ideas
    ○ Build prototypes
    ○ Iterate
    ● Usually with an overall topic like
    ○ Energy
    ○ Finance
    ○ Culture
    

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29. Hackathons
    ● Team building at the event with people interested in the
    same idea:
    ○ Designers
    ○ Topic experts
    ○ Developers
    ○ Ideators
    ○ User
    

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33. Open Source
    ● Open source code
    ○ Read, analyze and change source code
    ○ Contribute changes back
    ● Free
    ○ There are no licence fees associated with the software
    ● World-wide community of developers, testers, translators
    and users (e.g. GitHub)
    

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34. Open up data? Open Data!
    

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35. Data is not enough!
    

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36. What’s next after the open government?
    ● Open Education - open schools and educational material
    ○ OpenTechSchool
    ○ School of Data
    ● Open Research / Open Science
    ○ Research financed by the public sector (e.g.
    Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF)
    ● Open Culture / Open GLAM
    

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37. @odi
    Climathon
    28./29.10.2016, Impact Hub Zürich
    http://zurich.climathon.org
    Jugend hackt
    11.-13.11.2016, Planet 5 Zürich
    http://jugendhackt.ch
    

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