Welcome

Municipal Open Data... Are you ready?

AGENDA-Nov 24th, 2011, Town of Okotoks, AB.

The goal is to provide a set of tools to understand and implement Open Data in your organization

8:00 am -  9:00 am     Registration 
9:00 am –  9:15 am    Welcome
9:15 am -  9:30 am     Introductions
9:30 am - 10:30 am    Building the Business Case for Open Data
    
      9:30 am -  9:45 am     City Of Edmonton Presentation
      9:45 am - 10:30 am    Create your Business Case answering the following:
  • What is Open Data?
  • Why Open Data? Benefits?
  • Who is doing Open Data?
  • Who is the audience?
  • What Data do they want or need and why?

10:30 am 10:45 am   BREAK

10:45 am - 11:35 am  Teams presentations
11:35 am - 12:00 pm  The Journey; Medicine Hat (Craig Fruin) and Nanaimo (Jason Birch)
                                                              
Noon – 1:30 pm        Lunch

1:30 pm – 4:00 pm    Process of Creating Open Data (Panel)

o   Top 5 Data Sets and Why,
o   Top Formats, Standards
o   What technologies are user friendly with Open Data? What should we adopt?
o   Where is stored? And why?
o   How is it used?
o   What outcomes were you expecting? How did you measure success?
o   How did you promote/market it?
o   Legal: What to be aware off?
o   What are the risks/What are the security concerns?
o   What precautions did you take?
o    What resources did you use that you benefited from? ie..websites etc.
o   What would you do differently in hindsight? What would you do the same?

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm    Closing Remarks - MISA Prairies President, Corey Halford