Community, Openness and Technology
LAPSI 1st Conference, 5th May 2011
Rufus Pollock
@rufuspollock[.org]
[Open Knowledge Foundation]
[Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow]
[CIPIL, University of Cambridge]
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The Open Knowledge Foundation
Founded 2004 / Not-for-profit
Build communities and tools that
Help people create, use and share information
http://www.okfn.org/vision/
Sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata
Community based, with 15+ projects and workings groups
Why?
(My) Motivation
Where Does Our Money Go When We Pay Taxes?
Like to know (and show) exactly
where every £ € $ went to ...
OpenSpending.org
What is Open?
Open = Freedom for Anyone to Use / Re-use / Redistribute
Anyone means Anyone!
Openness, Technology and Community
(Why II)
How Do We Scale?
(If We're Not the Government or Google)
Distributed, Decentralized, Collaborative
(And most importantly ...)
Componentized
CKAN.net - and it's many siblings (30 and counting)
But If We Break Up Humpty-Dumpty
We Need to Put Him Together Again
OpenSpending /
Where Does My Money Go?
A Case Study
First Challenge: Get the Data
Second Challenge: Load the Data
Has ~5 Countries Done and 5 in the Pipeline
Come and join in -- more countries wanted!
Third Challenge: Clean, Integrate and Link the Data
Fourth Challenge: Use It
Fifth Challenge: Get to Those Who Need It
