Open Bermuda
A movement to push Bermuda's Government and businesses to make public data freely accessible to the public.
What?
Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, at TED stated that if you put your raw open data "on the web, government data, scientific data, community data, whatever it is it will be used by other people to do wonderful things in ways that they never would have imagined."
With this in mind this site promotes raw open data principles at all levels in Bermuda.
The Three Principles of Open Data:
- If it isn't findable using Google (and/or other search engines), it doesn't exist
- If it isn't available in open and machine readable format, it can't engage
- If a legal framework doesn't allow it to be shared, it doesn't empower
Find, Use and Share. That's what we want.
credit: The Three Laws of Open Data (International Edition) by David Eaves
Who?
Anyone with rights of access to a dataset can release it. At the moment, just to name a few, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, the United Nations, and the World Bank all have open data strategies.
Why in Bermuda?
In lieu of the Public Access To Information Act that has been tabled and Bermuda's position in the ICT sector as outlined by the declaration made at the Global Public Policy Summit here in 2009, Bermuda would benefit in numerous ways from an Open Data strategy as it creates new ways for the community to engage itself.
Some ideas include:
- Advocacy and raising social awareness via data mashups
- Academic opportunities for local schools to use the data in school projects
- Youth camps for people interested in software development can use open data to build relevant skills and a better understanding of Bermuda
- Develop commercial or non-commercial geo aware mobile apps that are relevant to Bermuda
- Sharing some of the Census Data collected this year with the public
- Online and mobile Open 311 services
How can you help?
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Spread the word and click on one of the links below to get started!
- Print
and put up a Raw Data Now poster at your office. - Contact your MP and voice your opinion about Open Data.
- Want to help out and get more involved? Or have any ideas or comments? Then...
Contact Us
Email: openbermuda@gmail.com
Twitter: @openbermuda
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Bermuda/124764834212411
Examples
- Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
- Mapped: the UK's road cycling blackspots
- Trees Near You in NYC
- Open Parliament in Canada
- Vancouver Trash Collection Reminder Service
Resources
- Tim Berners Lee on Wikipedia
- Tim Berners Lee TED talks
- Open Data definition on Wikipedia
- The Three Laws of Open Data (International Edition)
- Publishing Open Government Data (W3C working draft)
- UK Open Data
- US Open Data
- Australia Open Data
- UN Open Data
- World Bank Open Data
- The Royal Gazette archive on the Public Access To Information Act
- The GPPS 2009 Bermuda Declaration
- Global Public Policy Summit 2009 website
- Mashup definition on Wikipedia
- Open 311 services
- Raw Data Now poster
- Programmable Web — Mashups, APIs, and the Web as a platform
- Open Format definition on Wikipedia
- Creative Commons licenses
- Public Domain licenses
- World Bank data on Bermuda
- United Nations data on Bermuda
Member(s)
Louis Galipeau — @muloka
Your name here?
Credits
Bermuda Online — thank you for your support.
Open Data Ottawa — thank you for your advice and inspiration.
exljbris Font Foundry — thanks for the use of the font.
Fam Fam Fam Icons — thanks for the use of the pdf icon.
Disclaimer
This site is an unofficial promoter of Open Data in Bermuda. At this time it is not affiliated with the Bermuda Government or any other party.
Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.