{"id":1101,"date":"2014-09-21T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2014-09-21T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T02:23:38","slug":"open-data-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/open-data-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-data in the Philippines: best practices from disaster relief and transportation mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

While attending Geeks on a Beach last month, we also spent some time in Manila to visit a few labs and agencies, and had several discussions on the state of open-data in the Philippines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Quick reminder: open-data is a recent trend for government, companies and institutions to release their datasets freely<\/strong>, so that users, developers, citizens or consumers can make use of it and create new services<\/strong> (check FixmyStreet<\/a> for a \u00ab\u00a0citizen 2.0\u00a0\u00bb stint or FlyonTime<\/a> for a more commercial approach).<\/p>\n

The Philippines, a 100m population country we have been exploring<\/a>, hosts quite a few very good applications of open-data<\/strong>, and they also have a strong support from the government<\/strong> side to do so. Here’s some of their creations, with the explanations\u00a0of Ivory Ong,\u00a0Outreach Lead of Open Data for the Department of Budget and Management<\/a> of the government of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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Key milestones of the open-data in the Philippines<\/h2>\n

The major milestone for the open-data in the Philippines was the official launch of data<\/span>.gov.ph<\/span><\/a> in January 16, 2014<\/strong> after a 6-month development period. \u00ab\u00a0We have had 500,000 page views as of June this year.<\/strong> We published 650 datasets<\/strong> at the time and had infographics (static data<\/span> visualizations and interactive dashboards) already which was the unique selling point of our data<\/span> portal. We were able to push out an additional 150 datasets by May 5, 2014″,<\/em> says Ivory.<\/span><\/p>\n