Saturday, December 31, 2016

Open Data Systems January12, 2017

a presentation by Jonathan Brown - How open data is now being used by governments, some successful examples, and visions for the future.
Here is a link, further explaining the concept of Open Data Systems, and why we should care.
http://www.govtech.com/data/Got-Data-Make-it-Open-Data-with-These-Tips.html


Jonathan provided links to resources and examples:
Open data and content can be freely used, modified and shared by anyone for any purpose.”
 
 
 
Ontario’s Open Data Catalogue: An online tool used to disseminate data in accordance with this directive can be viewed at www.ontario.ca/opendata
 
Some Examples of Open Data:
 
City of Toronto:
 
Meetups:
 
Community-Based Challenge:
 
Algorithms and Weapons of Math Destruction: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (open challenge to Mark Zuckerberg)
 
Jonathan Brown
 


 

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