1. PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION

2. Information produced, collected and disseminated by the Government as part of its day-to-day operations DemographicEconomicMunicipalMeterological What is PSI?

3. 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

4. To release PSI in machine-readable formats Dissemination of PSI

5. OBJECTIVES promote transparency spur innovation foster entrepreneurship bring convenience benefit society

6. Solution DATA

7. Automatic Synchronised Real-time Raw Free API Value-add Mix-and-match Service design Benefits Innovators: entrepreneurship Public: convenience Society: wise decisions

8. 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.

9. 2015-16 Budget “From this year onwards, free online information will be released in digital formats to encourage development of more applications by start-ups.”

10. TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

11. ➜ CKAN ➜ the world’s leading open-source data portal platform ➜ used by US (data.gov), UK (data.gov.uk), Australia (data.gov.au), Helsinki (www.hri.fi), etc. PLATFORM

12. ➜ all in digital formats, including CSV, JSON, RSS, XLS, XML, JPG and DOCX DATA FORMATS

13. ➜ 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

14. ➜ 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

15. NEW FUNCTIONS

16. Data Provider CategoryFormat ENHANCED SEARCH

17. VISUALISING DATA Preview ChartMap

18. APPLICATION SHOWCASE

19. CURRENT STATUS

20. 4 500+ datasets 18 categories 36 providers

21. * FREE OF CHARGE / ROYALTY * COMMERCIAL / NON-COMMERCIAL REUSE

22. Datasets from MTR

23. Datasets from Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation

24. Datasets from Centaline

25. APPLICATIONS

26. Transport and weather apps

27. Overseas example

28. WAY FORWARD

29. Suggest new datasets Develop innovative apps

30. THANK YOU!