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Motivations, practices, and politics of open data in Cape Town, South Africa Britta Ricker, PhD University of Washington Tacoma Urban Studies & Geospatial Technologies

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Motivations, practices, and

politics of open data in Cape Town, South Africa Britta Ricker, PhD

University of Washington TacomaUrban Studies &

Geospatial Technologies

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What was the first thing you did this morning ?

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An improved sanitation facility is defined as one that hygienically separates

human excreta from human contact.

Globally 2.4 billion people live without access to improved sanitation: Almost 1 billion of these practice open defecation.

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Informal Settlements

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Dreams, bricks and bodies: mapping ‘neglected spatialities’ in African Cape Town (Dierwechter, 2004)

• Dreams = planning, bricks= informal retail and bodies= pre-entrepreneurs

• Neglected spatialities of contemporary urban experiences

• ‘informailty’ has been part of the post apartheid solution in Cape Town (p. 977)

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Power of Maps

Knowledge politics: – greater weight given to knowledge expressed as quantitative or

represented in cartographic forms

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Risk reproducing inequalities. Call for active engagement to

combat inequalities through modern forms of mapping.

(Elwood, 2015)

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Smart Cities Could help?

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Taxonomy of data sources associated with “Smart Cities”

Smart CitiesData Sources

Ambient

Internet of Things

Big Data

Directed Open Data

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Open Data!

The open data movement – the story goes – could variably democratize data access and knowledge production, unite cities and citizens, encourage transparent governance, strengthen democracy, and advance cities socially and economically (see European Commission, 2014; Sieber & Johnson, 2015; Zuiderwijk & Janssen, 2014).

 Grand proclamations have been met by a burgeoning critique however, which has identified its limited inroads outside of the wealthy cities of the Global North, co-optation by hackers and corporations (Kitchin, 2014),

reinforcement of power relations (Gurstein, 2011), as well as concerns about neoliberal logics (Bates, 2012) and threats to social justice (Johnson, 2014).

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World Design Capital 2014Cape Town = Open Data

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Models of open data provision (Sieber & Johnson 2015)

oData over the wall: Government publishing of open data

oCode exchange: Government as open data activist

oCivic issue tracker: Data from citizens to government

o Participatory open data: open data as open government

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Civic Open Data at a Crossroad(Sieber & Johnson 2015)

o Conflicting motivations for open datao Shifting role of governmento Fragility of mission accomplished

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Cape Town: Data Over the Wall

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other models are emerge…

• Code exchange: open data activist

• Civic issue tracker: Data from citizens to government

• Participatory open data: open data as open government

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Violence Prevention

through Urban Upgrading

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Mobile Asset Management

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Mobile Asset Management

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Public Participatory GIS

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Public Participatory GIS

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Public Participatory GIS

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Cape Town: Data Over the Wall

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Code for South Africa

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Civic Hacking“Easter Egg Hunts”

Data JournalismLiving Wage Calculator

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Code for Cape Town @code4ct

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Code for Cape Town @code4ct

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Hector Eliott@hectoreliott Head of Ministry: Transport and Public WorksWestern Cape

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Open Data Observed

oData over the walloCode exchangeoCivic issue trackero Participatory open data

Context

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Data are there for you to comb

• Open data is an unfamiliar concept• People don’t want to share data• People don’t know how to contribute• People don’t understand GIS

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Data are there for you to comb

• Open data is an unfamiliar concept• People don’t want to share data• People don’t know how to contribute• People don’t understand GIS

These are not barriers for YOU!

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You can help! = Tourism

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Cape Town has penguins

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Digital Volunteer Tourism

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The Path Forward: home and abroad

• Lessons Learned – HOST An EASTER

EGG HUNT!– Build tools for those who

can use them• Make Maps post them

on the web• Write emails & tweet to

leaders

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Thanks!

Financial Support: University of Washington Office of Global Affairs Strategic International Partnership AwardAcknowledgments: Yonn Dierwechter, Don Shay, Chris Berens (VPUU) Adi Eyal (Code4SA).

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