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7.1 Case study 1. Data.govData.gov is a portal site, which can download many types of government data for the utilization for businesses, researches, and the other purposes. A background of arising open data movement was "Open Government Initiative" that President Obama declared on May 2009. This initiative has three main policies (1) transparency, (2) participation and (3) collaboration57. After the initiative, "Data.gov," which is a portal site that people can download the government data sets. The government data indicate that the federal offices have collected, for instance, data fromnational census, environment, and economic conditions. Figure 7.1.1 is a capture of the website. 
Figure 7.1.1 – Capture of the Postal Site, Data.gov The government presented "Open Government Directive" to each the federal offices for sharing the data among any people, researchers, and companies via the Internet on December 2009. After the directive, Data.gov has published the government data, which categorized four data of raw, geo, data tool, and interactive. Users can select the type of data, public institution, data categories, topics, and web domains. Table 7.1.1 shows examples of data categories. Table 7.1.1 – Example of Data Categories
After sharing the data, new businesses have arisen, which were similar movements like that many weather news businesses started after National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened their data. As the recent case, many new businesses have started up with data of "Health Data Initiative" shared58. One of the examples to utilize the open data of energy usage is "Opower"59. They have used energy consumption data, which are collecting by smart meters, and made reports how to conserve the energy for companies and households. Their analyzed data are almost free. Therefore, their running costs are dramatically low compared with before. They have expanded their business to seven countries and had 16 million customers in 2013. 7.2 Case study 2. Data.gov.uk"Data.gov.uk" is a portal site that the government has shared public data. However, their purpose includes enhancing the people's understanding how government works and how policies are made. Data.gov.uk is placed as a key part of the government's work on "transparency" between the government and people. Open Data team in the Cabinet Office has led Data.gov.uk. Figure 7.2.1 shows a capture of top page, Data.gov.uk. 
Figure 7.2.1 – Capture of Postal Site, Data.gov.uk Hear, more about the Government's Transparency agenda from the Prime Minister in the UK60. Data.gov.uk provides datasets available from all central government departments and a number of other public sector bodies and local authorities. From the portal side of data.gov.uk, users can access the raw data driving government forward like Data.gov provided by the United States. Examples of general public information are tax credits or tax your car. So, the portal site enhances the utilization data not only for These data sets are allowed to use to analyze trends over time from one policy area or to compare how different parts of government go about their work. Technical users will be able to create useful applications out of the raw data files.
This declaration indicated that people living in Japan would be contributed by ICT; therefore quality of ICT should be higher. The purposes of this declaration are introduced below: (1) Contributing to the creation of new industry and growth in all industry fields through the creation of innovative technologies and integrated services that will enable the public to experience personally the recovery of the Japanese economy through the use of IT and data; (2) Contributing to the improvement of the world's safest and most disaster-resilient society where people can live safely, with peace of mind, and comfortably; and (3) Contributing to the provision of electronic government services and government reform from the perspective of user public to enable one-stop public services that anyone can access and use from anywhere. In order to provide the data sets, the government developed a website "IT dashboard"62. 15 federal offices shared the data sets via the website. Categories and percentages of the open data are geographical data (33.0%), static data (28.1%), white paper (14.1%), protection against disasters (14.7%), technical data of using IT dashboard (7.0%), and the other (2.2%). Used data formats are pdf, html, xls, gif, csv, pdtxt, zip, epub, jpg, xlsx, ppt, docx,pdf", and mp3. Directory: ITU-T -> focusgroups -> ssc -> Documents -> website website -> Telecommunication website -> Telecommunication website -> Telecommunication website -> Telecommunication focusgroups -> Innovation of ict in Developing Countries focusgroups -> Innovation of ict in Developing Countries Download 446.42 Kb. Share with your friends:
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