How Creative Commons
promotes
Open Data
Open Data Day 2017 Lagos
University of Lagos
July 4th, 2017
What is Data?
What is Data?
• To the computer science student? 1101010101010101
• To a lecturer? Amount of students in a class, no of students that passed a course
• A Mechanic? Number of cars in a local government
• A slay queen? Number of boutiques in the locality
What is Data?
What is Data?
What is Data?
What is Data?
What is
Open Data is:
10000101010101010101 + #open
Data that is open, accessible, reusable & remixable
Why should you we support #opendata?
• Increased opportunities
• Improves Innovation
• Improves Transparency
• Improves Citizen Participation/ Adaptation for Local Use
• Improves efficiency of government services
• New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes
What datasets should we begin to see?
• Our Demography (number of men, women, children)
• Number of schools in a particular region
• Distribution of power supply
• Distribution of eligible voters in a region
• Number of road traffic accidents
• Number of markets in Lagos with the distribution of traders in each market
• Just think it and it can be open data
How to make data open
1. Choose a Data Set
2. Attach an Open License
3. Present the Data in a preferred format to Your Audience
4. Make your data Discoverable
Examples of Opendata tools
Examples of Open Data Projects Around the World
• Australia
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Chile
• Ghana
• India
• Italy
• Kenya
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Philippines
• Russian Federation
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
Sources of Open Data
• Budgit: http://yourbudgit.com/
• Gidi Traffic: https://twitter.com/Gidi_Traffic
• Edo State Government: http://data.edostate.gov.ng/Home/index.html
• Kaduna State Government: http://openkaduna.com.ng/
• Nigeria Open Data Portal: http://nigeria.opendataforafrica.org/
• Nigeria Open Data Access: https://opendata.com.ng/
• World Bank: http://opendatatoolkit.worldbank.org
• Web Foundation: http://opendatabarometer.org/
• NASA: https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/
What Next?
• Do press releases, announcements on your website, and so on, you may
consider:
• Contact prominent organisations or individuals who work/are interested in this
area
• Contact relevant mailing lists or social networking groups
• Directly contact prospective users who you know may be interested in this data
Culled from Open Data Handbook
How Creative Commons Licenses Work
Creative Common Licenses
License Icon Can someone use
it commercially?
Can someone create new versions
of it?
CC-BY Yes Yes
CC-BY-SA Yes Yes, but the new work must
licensed as Share-Alike
CC-ND Yes NO
CC-NC No Yes, the new work must be Non-
Commercial. However, it can be
under any Non-Commercial License
CC-NC-SA No YES, and they must license the
new work under a Non-Commercial
Share-Alike License
CC-NC-ND No No
Icon Description Acronym
Free
Cultural
Works
Remix
culture
Commercial
use
Freeing content globally
without restrictions
CC0 Yes Yes Yes
Attribution alone BY Yes Yes Yes
Attribution + ShareAlike BY-SA Yes Yes Yes
Attribution +
Noncommercial
BY-NC No Yes No
Attribution + NoDerivatives BY-ND No No Yes
Attribution +
Noncommercial + ShareAlike
BY-NC-SA No Yes No
Attribution +
Noncommercial +
NoDerivatives
BY-NC-ND No No No
Courtesy: Wikipedia
Using a licenced work
• Include any copyright notices (if applicable). ...
• Cite the author's name, screen name, or user ID, etc. ...
• Cite the work's title or name (if applicable), if such a thing exists. ...
• Cite the specific CC license the work is under. ...
• Mention if the work is a derivative work or adaptation.
How to License Using CC
• Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• Is the licensor able to license the works CC
• The licenses are forever
• Are you fine with all the derivatives of your work? Are you ok with
someone using your work for gay issues that you do not support?
Challenges
Let’s keep in touch
Kayode Yussuf
Tech Lead
Creative Commons Nigeria
+2348029730089
kayode@creativecommonsng.org
@CC_Nigeria
@k_whybaba

How creative commons promotes open data at open data day 2017 lagos by kayode yussuf

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    How Creative Commons promotes OpenData Open Data Day 2017 Lagos University of Lagos July 4th, 2017
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    What is Data? •To the computer science student? 1101010101010101 • To a lecturer? Amount of students in a class, no of students that passed a course • A Mechanic? Number of cars in a local government • A slay queen? Number of boutiques in the locality
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    Open Data is: 10000101010101010101+ #open Data that is open, accessible, reusable & remixable
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    Why should youwe support #opendata? • Increased opportunities • Improves Innovation • Improves Transparency • Improves Citizen Participation/ Adaptation for Local Use • Improves efficiency of government services • New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes
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    What datasets shouldwe begin to see? • Our Demography (number of men, women, children) • Number of schools in a particular region • Distribution of power supply • Distribution of eligible voters in a region • Number of road traffic accidents • Number of markets in Lagos with the distribution of traders in each market • Just think it and it can be open data
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    How to makedata open 1. Choose a Data Set 2. Attach an Open License 3. Present the Data in a preferred format to Your Audience 4. Make your data Discoverable
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    Examples of OpenData Projects Around the World • Australia • Brazil • Costa Rica • Chile • Ghana • India • Italy • Kenya • Moldova • Morocco • Philippines • Russian Federation • United Kingdom • United States of America
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    Sources of OpenData • Budgit: http://yourbudgit.com/ • Gidi Traffic: https://twitter.com/Gidi_Traffic • Edo State Government: http://data.edostate.gov.ng/Home/index.html • Kaduna State Government: http://openkaduna.com.ng/ • Nigeria Open Data Portal: http://nigeria.opendataforafrica.org/ • Nigeria Open Data Access: https://opendata.com.ng/ • World Bank: http://opendatatoolkit.worldbank.org • Web Foundation: http://opendatabarometer.org/ • NASA: https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/
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    What Next? • Dopress releases, announcements on your website, and so on, you may consider: • Contact prominent organisations or individuals who work/are interested in this area • Contact relevant mailing lists or social networking groups • Directly contact prospective users who you know may be interested in this data Culled from Open Data Handbook
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    How Creative CommonsLicenses Work
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    Creative Common Licenses LicenseIcon Can someone use it commercially? Can someone create new versions of it? CC-BY Yes Yes CC-BY-SA Yes Yes, but the new work must licensed as Share-Alike CC-ND Yes NO CC-NC No Yes, the new work must be Non- Commercial. However, it can be under any Non-Commercial License CC-NC-SA No YES, and they must license the new work under a Non-Commercial Share-Alike License CC-NC-ND No No
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    Icon Description Acronym Free Cultural Works Remix culture Commercial use Freeingcontent globally without restrictions CC0 Yes Yes Yes Attribution alone BY Yes Yes Yes Attribution + ShareAlike BY-SA Yes Yes Yes Attribution + Noncommercial BY-NC No Yes No Attribution + NoDerivatives BY-ND No No Yes Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike BY-NC-SA No Yes No Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives BY-NC-ND No No No Courtesy: Wikipedia
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    Using a licencedwork • Include any copyright notices (if applicable). ... • Cite the author's name, screen name, or user ID, etc. ... • Cite the work's title or name (if applicable), if such a thing exists. ... • Cite the specific CC license the work is under. ... • Mention if the work is a derivative work or adaptation.
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    How to LicenseUsing CC • Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/
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    • Is thelicensor able to license the works CC • The licenses are forever • Are you fine with all the derivatives of your work? Are you ok with someone using your work for gay issues that you do not support? Challenges
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    Let’s keep intouch Kayode Yussuf Tech Lead Creative Commons Nigeria +2348029730089 kayode@creativecommonsng.org @CC_Nigeria @k_whybaba