Bart Rosseau Strategische Communicatie

Stad Gent

OPEN DATA

Open Data in Ghent

Smart City

“Ecosystem” for open data

Convert Data to information for citizens and policy makers

Data enrichment

More then a trend

• Government 2.0• Open government• European ambition

• Beyond ‘the Big Shiny App” • New component in relation between citizens and

government

• Support from– Mayor and Vice-Mayor– Administration– Gent Web Valley

The first steps

Apps for Ghent

First Belgian Hackathon

Show what open data is about

Exploring possibilities

Gentse Fieste(Ghent Festival)

Dataset: csv of program

Released 1 day before the start

5 apps developped

voorbeeld

• http://www.bitsoflove.be/clients/000_varia/kadee/Home.html

• http://www.wakankdoen.be/nl/events/detail/l1046

• http://batchgeo.com/map/3376b904c308a616d1deaeebbf501986

• http://gentsefeesten.irail.be/

The first lessons• Who owns the data• Are the data correct• How are they collected?

• YOU DONT DECIDE WHICH DATASETS ARE INTERESTING

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• Quickwins:– More insight in data collection and publication– Better quality of data

Succesfactors

• Irail vzw • IBBT• Policy support• Benevolence of the data-owners• First attempt in test-environment

And now?

• Learning process

• Many stakeholders

• Build networks

• Other government levels?

www.appsforghent.be

www.gent.be/open

www.openbelgium.be

www.opendatamanual.org

bart.rosseau@gent.be

www.twitter.com/bartrosseau