Open and Agile Smart Cities - Open Knowledge Belgium

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1. Open Knowledge Belgium Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert@okfn.org @pietercolpaert http://openknowledge.be
2. An umbrella organisation for grassroot Open Knowledge initiatives in Belgium
3. Open Street Map BE Open Transport Open Access BE Open Tourism Creative Commons BE Umbrella for a lot of open Open Education Open Science Open Innovation Open Culture Open Belgium … and many more Full list at openknowledge.be
4. We have awesome volunteers for both Open Knowledge Belgium in general As for individual working groups
5. We have an awesome board of directors
6. Pieter-Jan Pauwels A full-time community manager Lara Deraes Part-time supporting staff Stephane Roelandt
7. Open smart cities? The relevant projects
8. Open Data definition OpenDefinition.org
9. What I’m not going to say because you already know How awesome Apps for Ghent was this year (it attracted 80 developers!) That NMBS should open up their data (it’s already available: http://hello.irail. be) That we only rank 53 out of 93 countries in the Open Data Index we’ve created The legal/policy framework: new PSI directive, Flemish policy, open by default, G8 charter... That Open Data has an amazing economic potential
10. What I’m not going to say because you already know Open Data is only a legal definition… but:
11. Videos to learn about Open Data in Flanders for youngsters Coming this fall!
12. DCAT.be Linking data portals across Belgium Using the w3c and European standard for metadata Or... The first step to publish Linked Open Data
13. Publishing datasets over HTTP http://thedatatank.com
14. open Summer of code A 3 week student coding event in July http://summerofcode.be in Namur, Ghent and Hasselt
15. Open Belgium The conference on the state of play of open data in Belgium
16. State of the map 2016 The conference on the state of Open Street Map we’re hosting it in Brussels!
17. How are we funded? Open Belgium 2015 oSoc15 Datawijs IN: €25k OUT: €26k IN: €69k OUT: €65k IN: €30k OUT: €30k + Quite a few pending open data projects + Individual working group funds (5%)
18. @openknowledgebe http://openknowledge.be