The Open Data Movement

THE OPEN DATA MOVEMENT
THE EVOLUTION OF APIs
Increasingly, companies are making their data and inner workings
publicly available through the release of APIs, which are used by
developers in building new tools—like TweetDeck, based on Twitter’s
API, Since 2005, more than 3,700 APIs have been launched.

WHAT IS AN API?
An application programming interface is a set of instructions that allows software programs to interact with each other. Programmable Web tracks APIs and "mashups" (new combinations of existing APIs).


RELEASE DATES: —API Category
approximate

APIs ADDED TO DIRECTORY
by month



2006
GOOGLE MAPS - Mapping
WIKIPEDIA - Reference
FACEBOOK - Social
TWITTER - Social

2007
TRULIA - Real Estate
DIGG - News
YELP - Recommendations
YOUTUBE - Video
BEB0 - Social

2008
NYTIMES - News
1,000 APIs

2009
KLOUT - Social
NETFLIX - Movies
FOURSQUARE - Social
LINKEDIN - Social

2010
GOWALLA - Social
2,000 APIs

2011
3,000 APIs

NEW APIs by month
300
200
100
0

TOTAL APIs - cumulative
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0


PUBLIC DATA AROUND THE WORLD
From education to energy, health to poverty, and finance to
demographics, governments aid NGOs are opening up their data
troves so that anyone can look for patterns and create informed
solutions to global challenges.

Ireland
Fingal County led the way in opening its data, which were used at the country’s first open data challenge in July 2011. Dublin City will open in September 2011.

USA
Launched by Vivek Kundra, the first Chief
Information Officer of the United States,
Data.gov offers 389,730 datasets.

Mexico

UK
Data.gov.uk contains more than 7,200 datasets from
seven governmental publishers, including 989 from the
Department of Health and 784 from the Department for
Communities and Local Government.

Norway

Open Government Partnership
Launched ‘ii July 2011, the OGP secures commitments by governments to promote transparency, increase civic participation, fight corruption and use technology to be more effective and accountable.

India
Data.gov.in launched in July 2011, modelled
after the U.S. and UK sites, but with many
datasets restricted to agency access only.

Philippines

Indonesia


• OGP COMMITTEE MEMBER
• GOVERNMENT DATA RELEASE

Brazil

Kenya
Launched in July 2011, the Kenya Open Data
Initiative is the first Sub-Saharan national data
program and will be used to create infrastructure
for human and economic development.


South Africa THE OPEN DATA THE EVOLUTION OF APIS MOVEMENT Increasingly, companies are making their data and inner workings publicly available through the release of APIS, which are used by WHAT IS AN API? developers in building new tools-like TweetDeck, based on Twitter's An application programming interface is a set of instructions that allows API. Since 2005, more than 3,700 APIS have been launched. software programs to interact with each other. ProgrammableWeb tracks APIS and "mashups" (new combinations of existing APIS). RELEASE DATES: approximate | API Category 300 4,000 APIS ADDED TO DIRECTORY by month NEW APIS TOTAL APIS by month cumulative Recommendations Video Social 3.000 APIS GOOGLE MAPS Mapping TWITTER Social Movies 3,000 News Social Social Real Estate 200 Social KLOUT FOURSQUARE Social 2,000 APIS BEBO 1,000 APIS 2,000 2006 100 2007 PUBLIC DATA AROUND THE WORLD 1,000 2008 From education to energy, health to poverty, and finance to demographics, governments and NGOS are opening up their data 2009 troves so that anyone can look for patterns and create informed 2010 solutions to global challenges. 2011 Source: ProgrammableWeb Fingal County led the way in opening its data, which were used at the country's first open data challenge in July 2011. Dublin City will open in September 2011. Open Government Launched in July 2011, the OGP secures commitments by govern- ments to promote transparency, increase civic participation, fight corruption and use technology to be more effective and accountable. O Norway Partnership Ireland O UK Data.gov.uk contains more than 7,200 datasets from seven governmental publishers, including 989 from the Department of Health and 784 from the Department for O USA Launched by Vivek Kundra, the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, Communities and Local Government. Mexico Data.gov offers 389,730 datasets. Data.gov.in launched in July 2011, modeled after the U.S. and UK sites, but with many datasets restricted to agency access only. India Launched in July 2011, the Kenya Open Data O OGP COMMITTEE MEMBER Initiative is the first Sub-Saharan national data program and will be used to create infrastructure GOVERNMENT DATA RELEASE for human and economic development. Brazil O Philippines Kenya O Indonesia South Africa O visual.ly WKPEDIA Reference FACEBOOK TRULIA DIGG News H YELP YOUTUBE NYTIMES NETFLIK LINKEDIN | GOWALLA Social