[CivicAccess-discuss] City Indicator Development Standards - ISO 37120

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

It would seem to me, that it would be beneficial if open data cities
produced the necessary data to enable the production of these types of
indicators, in lieu of just a bunch of random datasets that a few people
have deemed useful to them.

When I look at the OKN census, the Barometer and the G8 Open Data Charter,
and a host of other open data like indicator systems, the list of data by
which a nation is measured to be open or not so open, are not necessary
socio-economic data that lead to sustainable cities, healthy cities, or
liveable cities.  The OECD report that was just released, mesures nations
in multiple ways using a wide variety of data.  If we went fishing for
those data in our open data portals to create comperable city indicators,
we would not be able to.

The FCM Quality of Life Indicators System for example tracks 10 major
indicators that are broken into 110 variables requiring about 200+ datasets
from over 50 government institutions across 24 cities.  Open data portals
do not contain those data either.

It is nice that near real time transit data are the number one ask, but
that is because those data can be commercialized in some way, and yes it is
true, that projects like Zone Cone do help alleaviate getting trapped in
traffic which increases the well being of commuters, these data do not lead
to lets say, apps to improve a city's environment.

In other words, it would be great to re-orient some of our asks toward data
that can be used to inform public policy in myriad other ways.

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=62436

Yes I know!  Friggin' ISO is ....

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Tracey P. Lauriault
http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/moving-to-ireland/
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
http://datalibre.ca/
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