The State of Open Knowledge in Belgium 2017
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The State of Open
Hello!Inge Van Nieuwerburgh@ivnieuwe (Board member Open Knowledge)
Toon Vanagt@toon (Chairman Open Knowledge)
The EssentialsGuiding you through the conference day
Open Knowledge Belgium advocates “A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few”
A grassroots organisation that consists of people, mainly volunteers, passionate about openness, using advocacy, research and technology to unlock information, enabling people to use and share knowledge in Belgium and beyond.
We are a non-profit promoting Open Knowledge (as part Open Knowledge International) and an umbrella organisation for our 7 active working groups:
○ Creative Commons Belgium○ OpenStreetMap Belgium○ Open Tourism○ Open Access Belgium○ Open Transport (iRail)○ Open Badges Belgium○ Open Education (in the making)
Wifi & Tweets
● Where do I find my wifi code?
Check your lanyard● Posting about the conference on social media?
#openbelgium● Questions & feedback to the organisers on Twitter?
@openbelgium● Where do I charge my electronic device(s)?
At the free charging station in the foyer
Feeling lost? Check your lanyard
This lanyard
Feeling lost?Reach out to a volunteer
This shirt
Off the menu.. Speed meeting for data owners and reusers
● 15h30-17h00● “Data producer meets Data consumer”● Organised by cirb / cibg in the Foyer
Wiki Loves Art
Check the side wall of the Atrium
Open Visualisations & Open Notes
Frederik Vyncke (fritsbits) will make visualisations.
Feel free to make and post your own visualisations: We look forward to your visual summaries & doodles
Feel free to help write our collaborative notes and contact the transcribers (present in every conference room)
The State of OpenLooking back and forward
NYTimes.com Trump’s Inauguration vs. Obama’s: Comparing the Crowds (20/01/2017)
Alternative facts
Let’s not take all things “open” for granted
If you can make people believe there is a bigger crowd on the right than the left.. we risk to wave enlightenment goodbye & enter dark times..
Washingtongpost.com (13/12/2016)
Open Science
Some policy support
Flanders: report VRWI on open science including OA, OD, skills
Wallonia: project for a law on open access to scholarly articles
Europe
Extended pilot open research data in H2020
Council conclusions on the transition towards an Open Science system, May 2016: “…AGREES that the results of publicly funded research should be made available in an as open as possible manner …”
“as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
FAIR data
Findable
FAIR data
Accessible
FAIR data
Interoperable
FAIR data
Re-usable
Skills
Data curator
Skills
Source: Ringlead: https://www.ringlead.com/salesforce-user-data-steward/#.WLxOi0e8pQM
Data Steward
Skills
Source: http://www.tibco.com/blog/2011/07/26/how-to-become-a-data-analyst/
Copyright
Reform European level
Proposition exception TDM
Idea should be:
Right to read is right to mine
Open Knowledge Lifetime Achievement Award
1. Too expensive2. There’s no business case3. There’s no commercial value4. It’s private5. It’s secret6. It's our data7. We have invested a lot of money
in this8. Link enough data and one will
arrive at sensitive private information
9. It's not data, it's information10. It will never work
Noël Van Herreweghe (@opendataforum_) Open Data manager at Information Flanders
11. We don't know how to do this12. We don't have the right people to
do this13. We need the money14. It’s not ours, and we don’t know
who’s data it is15. No idea what the quality of the
data is16. We don’t know where to find it17. It’s not our job18. It isn’t in the right format19. I am not authorised20. Who is going to use this anyway21. ...
Receives our Open Knowledge Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 for overcoming early “Open Data” excuses such as:
2. State of OpenWhere are we today?
Open Knowledge was recognised as grassroot umbrella organisation for open data legislation
Grassroot input from & feedback by Open Knowledge Belgium
Discussed in government
Discussed in parliament
Voted in parliament
Belgium V V V V
Flanders V V V V
Wallonia V V V V
Brussels V V V V
Annual effort tracking state of Open Data
Source: http://index.okfn.org/
Government Spending (ranking 8th)Government Budget (ranking 25th)
Source: https://openspending.org/
Location Data portal availability URL
Europe V https://www.europeandataportal.eu/
Belgium V http://data.gov.be/
Flanders V http://opendata.vlaanderen.be/
Wallonia V http://opendata.digitalwallonia.be/
Brussels V http://opendatastore.brussels/en/
Data portals are the new black
Low hanging fruit is gone
Algorithm ethicsFeedback loops
Extra privacy constraints (GDPR)
New gatekeepers
Open Science Sustainable revenue models for “re-users”
Open spending
Copyright reform
Real time data
Linked data
Thanks!You can reach us at @toon & @ivnieuwe
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