Some Summary

Open Data is a commodity akin to gold. While it is a bright and good thing and the diggers are all rushing to the gold-fields, the sources are limited and it needs to be processed and enriched. It brings some quite interesting Technical and Business challenges which we shall address.

This is the 5th mini-event addressing the 6 clusters of the World Design Capital.

Time and Date

Date: Thursday, 13 November 2014
Time: 16h00-18h00

Venue

Korwe Offices in Bellville. More info here.

Agenda (preliminary draft)

• Some background to Open Data.
  • Basic principle
  • Why design?
  • Motivation and Business Benefits
  • Technology 
• Issues and Response
  • Open Data Committee

Speaker

David Hislop

More Info

[1] City of Cape Town  policy - this is the actual policy
[2] Adi Eyal on Daily Maverick - here Adi Eydal for Code 4 SA expresses dismay
[3] Indian version  Open Data - this is a better way of looking at data and government
[4] Sunlight Foundation - some basics sofware engineering and technology pointers
[5] Open Data - Future echoes of past sins - David Hislop comments 
[6] This is the way you do Open - more DJH comments
[7] Policy Comments and response - yet more DJH comments
[8] Open Data

Sponsors

	IEEE Computer Society South Africa
	Korwe Software

 

Should you wish to sponsor please contact Samantha.Kenmuir@korwe.com

 

Notes from event -> http://www.korwe.com/blog/wdc405-business-open-data