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Change the world with open source software and
content
Hal Seki
1 Aug 2013 , GESTISS Summer School
http://slideshare.net/hal_sk/
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Confidential
motivation
Making the world better place to livewith geolocation technologies.
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Confidential
Today I’d like to explain
• How open source softwares change the world.
• Why open data is important for social changes.
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Provide and aggregate disaster information by formatting them using geolocation data.
Mission
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95%+ of reports have been collected from Twitter by volunteers half manually
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Statistics
12,000+ reports
1,000,000+ PV in first one month
650,000+ unique visitors
* not include API access
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And supported by:
Total number
Moderators 100+
Developers 100+
Translators 10+
Operated by volunteers
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• We could launch Sinsai.info just only 4 hours after the earthquake happen.
• We learned not only technical things but also ‘solutions’ from the ‘tested’ platform.
• World-wide volunteers helped us because Ushahidi had a strong community, and had been translated into several languages.
• We ported back our source code to original code-base.
Why open source was important?
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https://github.com/whitehouse
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Confidential
Today I’d like to explain
• How open source softwares change the world.
• Why open data is important for social changes.
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Idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they
wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
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http://okfn.org/opendata/19Wednesday, July 31, 13
http://opendatahandbook.org
•Availability and Access•Reuse and Redistribution•Universal Participation
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• Transparency
• Releasing social and commercial value.
• Participation and engagement
Three common reasons of Open (Gov) Data.
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Value chain of OpenData businesses
Open Data (Public Sector Information)
Companies make services
For Citizens
For Governments
For Companies
Citizen participant
Government
Economic growth
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http://oakland.crimespotting.org
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-open-data-charter-and-technical-annex
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http://datameti.go.jp/data/
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SummitDevelopers
Developers Summit 2013 Action !
http://www.city.sabae.fukui.jp/pageview.html?id=11552
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SummitDevelopers
Developers Summit 2013 Action !
http://spending.jp/
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• Open data is the platform of people participant.
• Open source softwares are a workable solution catalog in the world.
• Civic community is a key of open government and citizen participant.
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Code for Japan connects citizens to government using Civic-Tech
Government
Citizen
Civic-tech Community
Code for Japan
Soluttion/Services
Join
ParticipantOpen data
Volunteer work
UseFeedback
UseFeedbackSupport
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http://codeforkanazawa.org/
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Code for Japan was just stared this month. You can join us!Please visit http://code4japan.org/
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Thank you for your time
feedback welcomehttp://twitter.com/hal_sk
while (Japan.recovering) { we.hack(); }
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