Business in the era of
Open Government Data
17.12.2015 _ Lausanne _ HES-SO
Oleg Lavrovsky

Oleg Lavrovsky

Membre du comité @Opendata.ch
Founder/engineer @Datalets.ch
Organiser School of Data:arts

Democracy 1.0

Democracy 2.0

Democracy 3.0

Data this

Data that

Data here...

Data there...

Data, data everywhere

WHAT is Data ?

da•ta (dāˈtə, dătˈə, däˈtə)

Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.

Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.

Values derived from scientific experiments.

“Data is the raw material of knowledge”

David Antis CC BY 2.0

DATA

DATA +CODE

DATA +CODE +API

DATA +CODE +API +GEO

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Open ?

Steven Pisano CC BY 2.0

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Steven Pisano CC BY 2.0

Open Knowledge

Open Data is...

public, accessible, usable

#define #legal

“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike."

OpenDefinition.org

Open Data is technology

standards: DCAT OData RDF..
formats: CSV JSON OpenGIS..
tools: D3 R SciPy OR..
portals: CKAN DKAN CERN..
skills: scraping dataviz..

Open Data is government

Courtesy of European Data Portal

Open Data is business.

• big data sources for competitive intelligence

• working strategically with eGovernment(s)

• standard platforms and digital marketplaces

“Open data is the raw material of a new industrial revolution”

The Guardian 2012

“Open data has the potential to radically change the way
organisations value data”

The Guardian 2014

“The trend towards greater provision and use of open data will be irresistible, forcing businesses to conceive new commercial models, derive higher quality insights, develop new ways of engaging with stakeholders"