Behind the Scenes with Data.gov

Behind the Scenes with Data.gov

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  Behind the Sceneswith Data.gov Jeanne Holm Evangelist, Data.gov 20 October 2011
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  Open Government Initiative • Transparency promotes accountability • Participation allows people to contribute ideas • Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry 20 October 2011 2
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  Creating a DataEcosystem 1. Gather data – from many places and give it freely to developers, scientists, and citizens 2. Connect the community – in finding solutions to allow collaboration through social media, events, platforms 3. Provide an infrastructure – built on standards 4. Encourage technology developers – to create apps, maps, and visualizations of data that empower people’s choices “A Strategy for American 5. Gather more data Innovation” published – and connect more people September 2009 20 October 2011 3
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  US Open GovernmentAction Plan • On 20 September 2011, President Obama announced at the UN General Assembly… • Contribute Data.gov as a platform – India and the U.S. creating open source platform – Will allow any country to create open data site • Foster communities on Data.gov – Health, energy, and law plus new communities in education, research and development, and public safety • Launch International Space Apps Competition – NASA and other space agencies will gather scientists and citizens – Use data for global challenges: weather impacts on global economy and depletion of ocean resources – A collaboration website will be created to facilitate citizen participation 20 October 2011 4
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  Data.gov • Provides instant access to over 400,000 datasets in easy to use formats • Contributions from UN, World Bank, and 172 agencies • Encourage development of innovative applications • Drive innovation and knowledge use across the globe 20 October 2011 5
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  Supporting Global Events Japanese tsunami, earthquake, and radiation monitoring Restore the Gulf: Deepwater Horizon Response 20 October 2011 6
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  Learn at Data.gov •Resources for students and teachers • Examples of how data is being used to develop apps • Lesson plans and videos • Showcase your science fair project that uses government data! 20 October 2011 7
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  Open Communities Community Restore the Gulf ✓ Open Data ✓ Semantic Web ✓ Health ✓ Law ✓ Energy ✓ Education Ocean Research and Development Public Safety Human rights + many more… 20 October 2011 8
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  Powered Through Advanced Technologies • Provides developers the tools and raw data formats to develop new capabilities • Partnership with W3C (eGov Interest Group) and with RPI for research in semantic web • Connected to other open data efforts across the world • Data hosted in the cloud • Open source platform • Builds on ontologies developed in specific areas 20 October 2011 9
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  Easy to FindData 20 October 2011 10
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  The Power ofVisualizations 20 October 2011 11
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  Achieving Global Leadershipin Open Government Data Funding will drive ability to reach these goals Communities: Citizens health, law, ethics… Developers K-12 Education • Search • Cloud-hosted data • Dataset access • Semantic • Communities technologies State, local, Academia • Geodata visualization tribal Data.Gov Services International Cloud Internal Industry Stakeholders Agencies Green = government Blue = external stakeholders 20 October 2011 12
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  Open Data forthe Economy • When the Department of Defense released satellite data…private industry created affordable GPS devices • Data from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) helped build weather-related business • Opportunities for private sector are limitless 20 October 2011 13
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  Publicizing Data toInnovators • Challenges and code‐a- thons (health2challenge.org) • Many innovator “meetups” and conferences • Annual health data- paloozas • Over 139 applications • 50 new businesses • Thousands of lives improved each day 20 October 2011 14
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  Creating Apps ThatImprove Lives: Asthmapolis 20 October 2011 15
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  Creating Apps ThatSave Lives: iTriage and Hospital Compare 20 October 2011 16
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  Creating Apps ThatChange Lives: Eat Your Vegetables and Food Deserts • Eat Your Vegetables uses Health and Human Services community health data and shows obesity rates by county • Food Deserts shows areas with a lack of access to fresh food • Combined can inform cities and citizens how to change their behavior • Games like Hungry Hiker helps kids make better choices – Apps for Healthy Kids sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama 20 October 2011 17
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  Use Case: Economic •Healthtap – Provides free, reliable, and independent health information through the use of open data and by building the world’s largest medical expert network tailored for young mothers and their children – Won 2010 Health 2.0 challenge – Success invigorated expansion and new hiring at HealthTap – Reaches to Data.gov datasets (along with others) 20 October 2011 18
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  Real Outcomes =Better Lives • The data delivered through the 172 agencies participating in Data.gov eases the burden on families in caring for a sick child or seeking medical information • More importantly, the data as it’s aggregated empowers communities to make changes that improve the quality of life of citizens – ReLeaf plants trees in areas identified by Together We Breathe as danger areas for asthma sufferers – Cities see hot spots that trigger asthma problems for their citizens • Each company in Health 2.0 used government data to innovate and create high-value jobs here in America 20 October 2011 19
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  Think Big, StartSmall, Innovate Data.gov Quick Facts May 2009 October 2011 Total datasets available 47 >400,000 Hits to Data.gov 0 >200 million Apps and mash-ups by citizens and government 0 372 + 1113 RDF triples for semantic applications 0 6.7 billion Dataset downloads 0 >2.0 million Nations establishing open data sites 0 28 States offering open data sites 0 31 Cities in North America with open data sites 0 13 Open data contacts in Federal agencies 24 396 Agencies and subagencies participating 7 185 Communities 0 7 Community challenges 0 23 20 October 2011 20
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  The Path Ahead •Bring data up and out of government to the public ★ • Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★ • Provide simple ways to visualize the data • Create communities to understand and apply data • Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry, and academia to drive innovation • Develop open source open government data platform with India for global use and further community development • Share with others to understand global issues Be the change you want to see in the world – Ghandi 20 October 2011 21
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  A Global MovementHas Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization of Data Don’t see your site? Update via @usdatagov 20 October 2011 22
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  Let’s work togetherto set the data free! www.Data.Gov @usdatagov jholm@jpl.nasa.gov @JeanneHolm 20 October 2011 23