PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION
Information produced, collected and disseminated by the Government as part of its day-to-day operations DemographicEconomicMunicipalMeterological What is PSI?
Most online PSI is intended for reading (e.g. PDF, web pages) But cannot be used by computers for application development or analysis Dissemination of PSI
To release PSI in machine-readable formats Dissemination of PSI
OBJECTIVES promote transparency spur innovation foster entrepreneurship bring convenience benefit society
Solution DATA
Automatic Synchronised Real-time Raw Free API Value-add Mix-and-match Service design Benefits Innovators: entrepreneurship Public: convenience Society: wise decisions
Digital 21 Strategy – Smarter Hong Kong, Smarter Living Making PSI as default to make the wide array of Government information released for public consumption machine-readable to facilitate their free re-use for the development of innovative and value-added new applications.
Budget “From this year onwards, free online information will be released in digital formats to encourage development of more applications by start-ups.”
TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
➜ CKAN ➜ the world’s leading open-source data portal platform ➜ used by US (data.gov), UK (data.gov.uk), Australia (data.gov.au), Helsinki ( etc. PLATFORM
➜ all in digital formats, including CSV, JSON, RSS, XLS, XML, JPG and DOCX DATA FORMATS
➜ datasets automatically linked to their generating departments ➜ all updating is synchronised ➜ some datasets are updated frequently, e.g. real-time traffic snapshots at major roads (every two minutes) TIMELINESS
➜ Application Programming Interfaces ➜ datasets with frequent and regular updates are disseminated with APIs ➜ e.g. approved charitable fund-raising activities, EventHK information and GovHK Notifications API
NEW FUNCTIONS
Data Provider CategoryFormat ENHANCED SEARCH
VISUALISING DATA Preview ChartMap
APPLICATION SHOWCASE
CURRENT STATUS
datasets 18 categories 36 providers
* FREE OF CHARGE / ROYALTY * COMMERCIAL / NON-COMMERCIAL REUSE
Datasets from MTR
Datasets from Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
Datasets from Centaline
APPLICATIONS
Transport and weather apps
Overseas example
WAY FORWARD
Suggest new datasets Develop innovative apps
THANK YOU!