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OPEN DATA 101: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT MEANS FOR GOVERNMENT AND

RESIDENTS, WAYS IT’S BEING IMPLEMENTED, WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR NORTHEAST OHIO

Jill Miller ZimonOpenNEO@openneo

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WednesdaySeptember 16, 2015

Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban

Affairs

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OPEN DATA

What is open data

Public

Accessible

Reusable

Complete

Timely

Managed Post-Release 

Legally, Technically, Free

From The White House’s Project Open Data:

Examples

Campaign finance

Ohio online checkbook

Election results

Transport timetables

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WHY OPEN DATA

Create transparency

Empower accountability

Enhance efficiency

Lead to cost savings

Improve service quality

Increase public participation

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GOVERNMENT ADOPTION OF OPEN DATA

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>50 countries > 250 governments

World Bank Slideshare, http://www.slideshare.net/prasannalaldas/open-data-101.

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DIFFERING LEVELS OF PROGRESS

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http://index.okfn.org/place/ http://barometer.opendataresearch.org/assets/downloads/Open%20Data%20Barometer%20-%20Global%20Report%20-%202nd%20Edition%20-%20PRINT.pdf World Bank Slideshare, http://www.slideshare.net/prasannalaldas/open-data-101.

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THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA

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Open data – i.e. promoting use and exchange of data in interoperable, readily-accessible, and machinereadableformats – can deepen and broaden gains for organizations that already use data. Open data can alsohelp smaller or less data-proficient organizations benefit from public data and define and implement datainformedpractices.

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THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA

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Open data – i.e. promoting use and exchange of data in interoperable, readily-accessible, and machinereadableformats – can deepen and broaden gains for organizations that already use data. Open data can alsohelp smaller or less data-proficient organizations benefit from public data and define and implement datainformedpractices.

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THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA

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Open data – i.e. promoting use and exchange of data in interoperable, readily-accessible, and machinereadableformats – can deepen and broaden gains for organizations that already use data. Open data can alsohelp smaller or less data-proficient organizations benefit from public data and define and implement datainformedpractices.

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RESOURCES Learn more at OpenNEO’s website, openneo.org.

The Open Foundation has a handy guide to the technical, legal, and social aspects of open data

The World Bank and The Sunlight Foundation both provideopen government data toolkits that may be helpful for government officials considering open data programs

The US government published its open data policy

The G8 recently announced an open data charter

The UK government recently published a white paper describing the potential of open data

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THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA: LEARN MORE

• Lead Inspection Models (Chicago)Choucair, Bhatt, and Mansour. “How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health.” Harvard Business Review. September 15, 2015. https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-cities-are-using-analytics-toimprove-public-health/

• Variables Affecting 311 Rat Complaint Calls (NYC)Reference: Goldsmith, Stephen and Crawford, Susan. The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data-Smart Governance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2014), p 85-87.

• Food Borne Chicago: Report food poisoning to the Chicago Department of HealthA project of Smart Chicago Collaborative and Healthy Chicago https://www.foodbornechicago.org/

• WIC Food Stamps (Multi-City)Shueh, Jason. “Nutrition App Slices Red Tap for Low-Income Moms” Government Technology, November 6, 2014. http://www.govtech.com/applications/Nutrition-App-Slices-Red-Tape-for-Low-Income-Moms.html

• Vital Signs (Canada): http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/en/homeProject of Community Foundations of Canada: http://www.cfc-fcc.ca/home.cfm

• GPS-Enhanced Inhaler Provide Valuable Data about Air Quality (Louisville)Bruzek, Alison. “Medical Inhalers to Track Where You Are When You Puff.” Popular Science, December 18, 2015.http://www.popsci.com/every-breath-you-take-theyll-be-tracking-you

• MVOC Vacant Land Mapping (Youngstown) http://www.mvorganizing.org/index.php

• Street Bump (Boston) http://www.cityofboston.gov/DoIT/apps/streetbump.asp

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THANK YOU

Many thanks to OpenNEO Executive Director, Beth Sebian for sections of content.

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Jill Miller Zimonjill@openneo.org@openneoOpenneo.org