What's
Openkratio?

Back to the past...

  • Formerly Open Data Sevilla
  • Since Sept 2011

Openkratio is

A group of citizens who try to instill in society, and especially in the government, the principles of Open Government and Open Data.

Openkratio principles

  • Open Management
  • Free Participation
  • Non Profit
  • Hacker ethic
  • Independency
  • Collaboration
  • Inclusiveness
  • Enthusiasm

Working areas

  • Outreach and Awareness
  • Training
  • Lobbying
  • Hacking

Channels

#AdoptaUnaPlaya

Herding a bunch of data for concerning about the environment and our beaches adoptaunaplaya.es

What's #AdoptaUnaPlaya?

  • Information about quality of bathing waters
  • Mediate in behalf of citizens in reporting incidents on beaches
  • Grow a community of citizens concerned about environment (in construction)

A bit of detail

  • Data sources: Proyecto Nayade (MSC) / Guía de Playas (MAGRAMA) / Registro de Transporte de Emisiones y Contaminantes (MAGRAMA)
  • Incident reporting platform: Crowdmap / FixMyStreet,
  • Data analysis.

Challenges

  • Nayade's data in non-machine-readable formats
  • A FOIA request was done, but no transparency law for Spain yet ...
  • We started a crowdsourcing campaing for harvesting data manually. Was a success!
  • About to do the same with Guía de Playas

Lessons learnt

  • The unavailability of machine-readable data slows down social innovation.
  • The lack of harmonization between data sets cuts down the potential of data analysis.
  • We need a transparency law for Spain and a true policy data harmonization.

#ProyectoColibri

We order for you Congreso.es data. proyectocolibri.es

Proyecto Colibri

The "Proyecto Colibri" provides an ecosystem of inquiry the political activity of the Congress of Deputies (Government of Spain).

Motivation

  • Poor Information Arquitecture on Institutional Websites
  • Unstructured and Disjointed Information
  • Provide an useful tool for hacks & hackers
  • Hacktivism & Continuous learning

Building Process

  • Analysis of the problem
  • Information extraction (scraping + XML parser)
  • Data model definition
  • API resources definition
  • Task planning (extract + update)

Technological Stack

  • Python as a base
  • Django as framework
  • PostgreSQL as data management
  • Beautiful Soup for scraping
  • Tastypie to serve data (REST API)

Reusers love Colibrí

Next steps

  • API refactorization
  • Add elastic search
  • Collaboration with data consumers
  • Open to suggestions and requests

@OpenKratio

#WeNeedMoreHackers