———– Tom Zijlstra open GOV data———–

‘spice up your city’
- government data
- tonzijlstra.eu
- tools and skills in the hands of individuals
- government = boring , cities are creative melting pots
- reference to Wikileaks: boring – creating transparency to whom?
- they will need to open up or die (why?)
- one way is: participation + OpenData

- participation=talking or?
- participation can be much more – life!
- when you are actively involved in your neighborhood / livehood
- opening up government data
- big data is very different from small samples
- making this data readable: info’s
- PSI law; opening up data
- Open standards, machine readable, no legal strings attached
- the place to do that is in the place where you live.
- (possibly dangerous?)

- data use is flat. is used flat often.
- when does data become interesting? Dr snow example; combining data sources to find new knowledge.
- but why stop there?
- start adding your own data
- citizens-generated maps of sound in Holland
- competitive edge in data sharing, also big companies
- you could go further still?
- not only inform yourself, but also re-activate yourself
- yet another step further:
- start feeding into devices
- create sensors and actuators with this data
- we need to create a coding data literacy