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Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.88,0:00:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tom Steinberg: Open Government Data is any information the Government collects, by and large for its own purposes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.60,0:00:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it then makes available for other people to use for their purposes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.24,0:00:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rufus Pollock: It’s government data that’s Open
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.08,0:00:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Open means free for anyone to use, re-use and redistribute.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.44,0:00:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aine McGuire: The Open Data Movement is a way of transforming the relationship between the citizen and government
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.10,0:00:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such that everyone knows what’s going on
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.08,0:00:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if everyone knows what’s going on
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.75,0:00:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it will become much more easy for both parties to participate more fairly in society.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.16,0:00:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Taggart: Our lives are increasingly governed by data, in fact our lives increasingly are data.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.06,0:00:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given that, not to be able to look at the information about us,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.52,0:01:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we live, who represents us,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.32,0:01:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,companies that do business with the government and so on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.76,0:01:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starts to undermine democracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.56,0:01:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rob McKinnon: It is much broader than just government.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.26,0:01:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Government is actually just one participant in our society.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.72,0:01:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we are seeing happening is actually the cusp of a major social change, a global social change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.76,0:01:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together, we have the ability to transform the way society works.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.20,0:01:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Globally, we are bringing together, through sites such as Wikipedia or collections of structured data,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.96,0:01:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a big global overview of how society works and how we organise ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.16,0:01:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we’re just at the beginning of a major change in the way we operate...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.73,0:01:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rufus Pollock: There are three ways in which Open Government Data can make the world a better place.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.92,0:01:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one: it enables companies, individuals, not-for-profits
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.72,0:01:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go and build interesting, useful, valuable applications and services.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.48,0:02:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number two, I think it’s about democracy, it’s about the participating in government, it’s about transparency,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.08,0:02:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing us to see what our government is doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.62,0:02:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And number three: I guess is why not?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.59,0:02:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is basically costless to open up government data,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.12,0:02:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so why not open up the data that is already there and is already being collected.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.88,0:02:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tom Steinberg: Open Data is important for several different reasons
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.30,0:02:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and none of them is more important than the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.20,0:02:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the possibility of generating economic value,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.22,0:02:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is at the forefront of many people’s minds in hard times like these.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.86,0:02:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The creation of more jobs and more companies,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.26,0:02:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more profitable companies to generate more tax revenue.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.14,0:02:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's obviously a big thing about the potential power of open data.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.92,0:03:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is also the classic old fashioned issue of making data open and available so that we can see potential corruption
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.35,0:03:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and misuse of public money and practices that are unfair or illegal and nothing to do with money but are hidden in some way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.39,0:03:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ton Zijlstra: You can expect people to start businesses by adding value to data,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.28,0:03:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking that data and using it for a certain application.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.75,0:03:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s also about transparency
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.80,0:03:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s also about people empowering themselves to be better able to make decisions about their own lives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.94,0:03:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on information that wasn’t available before.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.32,0:03:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s also about making the organisations which create this data more efficient and effective themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.28,0:03:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rufus Pollock: For example we do a project called wheredoesmymoneygo.org
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.10,0:03:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help show you where your tax money goes, which I think is a really important part.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.44,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it would be interesting to know, ‘this is the biggest contribution I make to the state - where is this money going?’
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without open data in government, I can’t answer that question.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.68,0:04:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Eaves: We use Federal Pollution data and we mash it up into a map with electoral data
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.87,0:04:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show you near your postal code or in any area you care about
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.10,0:04:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what facilities are near you and how they pollute and what they pollute and whose riding they are in.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.96,0:04:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can begin to examine what the pollution levels around you are like.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.37,0:04:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tom Steinberg: MySociety builds various different civic and social websites and look after them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.28,0:04:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by civic and social website I mean services that do things like tell you:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.52,0:04:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,‘who is my politician?’ ‘how do I write to them?’ ‘what do they say in parliament?’, ‘how do they vote?’, ‘what do they do with the money they get?’
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.96,0:04:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- that’s on the democratic side.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.15,0:04:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the civic side we build services that say: ‘how do I get problems on my street fixed?’
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.74,0:04:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,‘how do i get information that I need to out of the government?’
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.60,0:04:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And soon ‘how do I get my transport problems fixed?’, which is forthcoming...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.44,0:04:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Eaves: In Vancouver the garbage schedule is very dynamic...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.98,0:05:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it changes on a regular basis and people always forget when to take their garbage out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.24,0:05:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so now they can just go to a site and they can register
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.53,0:05:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we’ll send them an email that says “Tomorrow is your garbage day”.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.11,0:05:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the type of application that the ordinary citizen wraps their head around very quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.98,0:05:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it delivers immediate use to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.70,0:05:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when people see VanTrash, they say, "so is this part of what Open Data is about?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.53,0:05:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we say, “Yes” and they say, “I want more of this in my life”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.12,0:05:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Cyganiak: On the level of the European Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.80,0:05:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be really interesting if we could actually get all of this data into a single place
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.16,0:05:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can search across the countries and actually start to compare things across countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.24,0:05:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jack Thurston: What we are trying to do with Farmsubsidy.org
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.36,0:06:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is connect all the different government disclosures into one single data centre.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.12,0:06:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that citizens can go online and find out what is going on not only in their country
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.53,0:06:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in other countries and they can make comparisons about how much farms get in one part of the EU compared to another,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.72,0:06:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much citizens put in to the policy,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.88,0:06:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much it costs them if they are in one country as opposed to another country.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.08,0:06:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the seeds of a pan-European debate that ought to be there,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.36,0:06:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeing as we have a pan-European policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.68,0:06:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Erik Swanson: One of my favourite examples of how World Bank Data has been reused occurred very soon after we opened up the database.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.08,0:06:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got a message back from a group that had simply taken our entire database
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.60,0:06:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and analysed where all the gaps were in the data
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.99,0:06:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then produced maps showing country by country, indicator by indicator, year by year
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.42,0:07:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the gaps were in the data.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.74,0:07:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.48,0:07:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it told it to us in a way we hadn’t seen before
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.92,0:07:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course it made it public for everyone else to look at as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.66,0:07:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Karin Christiansen: We are at the point where we need the data released
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.44,0:07:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we need a standard for that data to come out so that we can map it and compare it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.24,0:07:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what’s needed in Uganda, in Afganistan
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.24,0:07:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not just knowing what DFID is doing with UK money,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.03,0:07:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what American money is doing, but about how this all fits together.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.82,0:07:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simon Parrish: We are working on an initiative called the International Aid Transparency Initiative
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.12,0:07:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is about developing standards for how donors involved in government should be transparent about the aid that they give.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.68,0:07:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both to be accountable to the citizens and taxpayers in their own countries
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.70,0:07:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to a variety of stakeholders in the developing countries
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.29,0:07:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from governments of those countries, to civil society organisations, to parliamentarians
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.42,0:08:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who all want better information about the money that is coming into their country.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.21,0:08:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The openness and availability of this information has the potential to radically change
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.92,0:08:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way in which AID money is spent and the effectiveness with which aid money is spent.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.64,0:08:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The importance is on the openness of that data so that it could be reused by different groups in different ways
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.14,0:08:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it accessible for different groups in a way that meets their own specific needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.12,0:08:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Erik Swanson: Some of Hans Rosling’s bubble charts,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.44,0:08:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Gapminder software in which he illustrates the progress of countries over time,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.28,0:08:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using charts that are animated and move...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.52,0:08:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even before our data became available, Hans was using it in his Gapminder charts
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.55,0:09:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it has been terribly effective in raising awareness of development issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.08,0:09:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tom Steinberg: How can you persuade governments that maybe aren’t interested in Open Data
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.28,0:09:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it is worth spending their time and money and effort to pay any attention?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.04,0:09:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that demonstration is really the key here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.10,0:09:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Demonstration of services that are good, that are useful...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.60,0:09:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in particular services that are easy to explain, that offer very obvious value and general benefit as opposed to very niche benefit...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.44,0:09:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Eaves: We have three goals.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.47,0:09:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first is: let’s help build community around open data in as many cities as want it all around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.68,0:09:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second, let’s give a place where local politicians and government officials can come meet people that care about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.66,0:09:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meet people who are engaging on it and also see all of the cool things that are going on around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.05,0:09:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see how much is actually going on and that others are doing it and that they can do it too.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.04,0:09:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the third is, let’s actually build something.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.04,0:09:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s try and get each community to build something
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.56,0:10:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because nothing gets people understanding why open data matters more than when they see a really profound visualisation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.00,0:10:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that allows them to understand their community in a way they never had before.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.96,0:10:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jack Thurston: Our job is to remind people how important it is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.44,0:10:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they have access to data about what it is their government does,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.24,0:10:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that is getting journalists to write stories, helping NGOs to build their campaigns around data
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.72,0:10:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just creating web apps for ordinary citizens to go online and find out about what’s going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.75,0:10:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to be able to demonstrate that a world in which government data is open is better than a world in which it is closed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.12,0:10:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rufus Pollock: Normally the best things to come out of a new technology are ones that are not thought of.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.39,0:10:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine electricity, in the 1820’s when Faraday was demonstrating electricity to Gladstone at the Royal Society.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.72,0:10:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gladstone says to Faraday,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.16,0:10:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Yeah it’s very neat, you can make frogs’ legs twitch but what’s the point of electricity?”
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.71,0:10:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faraday says back to Gladstone,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.89,0:10:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well what’s the point of a baby? ...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.32,0:11:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s going to grow into something...”
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.30,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think the point here about open data is that we are living in an information age,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an information society - data and information are the key infrastructure of that world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.64,0:11:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ton Zijlstra: If you look at the way that humans solve problems we usually try to jump to easy solutions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.80,0:11:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if they are hard and complex problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.98,0:11:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think we need to use the data that we hold about our lives and our environment as a way to find
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.96,0:11:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less easy but workable answers to the hard questions that we face.