 Okay, do you see it? Okay. So thank you for being there. So the detail of the presentation is how we helped 16 Walloon administrations take first step in open data. So first of all, I will present myself. I'm working so for a future city with a non-profit association whose goal is to animate the Walloon smart territories ecosystem in particular on data teams. So we are fully committed on the smart region dynamic driven by a digital Wallonia. And it's in this context that we carry out each of our actions. So I think everybody has already seen this kind of design, a lot and a lot of time. Smart city is often presented as technological and so data is the cornerstone of it. At least, I think everyone can agree with the fact that data is a central key point. But I think smart city is not only a technological city. So smart city can also and first of all, it should be a city that moves towards more sustainability, more efficiency, more resilience, more inclusion and all we want. Then to be truly smart, a smart city must also be collaborative. And finally, the smart city is indeed connected and so needs data because we can't consider any technology without data. As I said, the collaboration is a central point and it is also to be considered for data. To be valued, the data must circulate between the various departments of the administrations and between also the various stakeholders that make up the city. So the associations, the universities, the companies, the journalists and so on and the enterprise also. So to share and to open the data is really important and it will be able to benefit as many people as possible. Let's remember that the data that's left into a drawer on a personal computer has no value if it's not used. So what are the different issues of open data? It's not the case for you, the open community, but often people think that open data is certainly a technological issue, but indeed it's not true. We need technology to manage data, but first of all, it's more critical to be able to communicate with the citizens. There's a big political issue. We often speak about transparency. There's an issue for the modernization of the administrations, also the effectiveness of the public actions, to be able to do some innovation in the services to the public. There's an economical issue, indeed also a scientific issue. So we need issues and so on. So we could last half an hour on this slide to explain all these issues, but it's not really the subject of the presentation of today, but it's important to remember that the use of data must irrigate all the policies of the cities, whether social, environmental, educational, about energy and so on. In the open community, we are all convinced, but what's the perception of the, yes, it's not a logical issue, but a strategic issue. So we are all convinced, but what's the perception of the open data by the local authorities? Every two years, in future city, we interview the Walloon municipalities in order to assess their data culture. And so what do we see? So we ask this question, what do you think about open data? So half of the respondents answered that it's an opportunity to really improve the quality of the data to be more transparent towards the citizens or to improve citizens' participation. It's twice more than two years ago, when we did the same exercise in 2018. At the opposite, we can see that only a few of them said open data is a constraint or that it has no interest. We are quite happy of that because it's significantly less than two years ago. But also we see that 21% of the administrations who answered this interview said they don't know what is open data. So it's still a problem. But in general, we are quite happy that because we can consider that local administrations are more and more convinced by the opportunities of opening their territorial data. So what's the situation in Wallonia concerning the local authorities? In Wallonia, we have cities who have their own open data portal for two years, approximately. So it's Namur and Yej. So they have, for Namur, about 100 data sets that are opened on their portal and for Yej, about 50. Also, in July, we had three cities that also published some data sets on the regional portal because, yes, we have a portal at the regional level, ODWB, Open Data Wallonia-Bressel portal. But these three cities published three, four, five data sets without really open data policy. And that's all. Yes, we had also about two other cities that have few data sets that are automatically generated by the IT solution provider. And they can be downloaded in a XML format on a page of their website. But often, these data are really difficult to find. And by the means, they are never documented. So it's not real open data. So apart from Namur and Yej, 13% of municipalities think they are already practicing open data. But as I said, the data are either scarce or really difficult to access. Apart from that, we have 9% of municipalities that said in our barometer of 2020 that they want to open some of their data here this year. And 12% that said they want to open some of their data by the end of the legislature. It means so that one out of three municipalities said they want to practice open data in the coming years. So in Wallonia, it's about 90 cities. It's thought quite a lot. Apart from that, yes, we have an open data degree that exists in Wallonia for three years now. But there's no implementing degree yet. But potentially, all municipalities, all administrations could start an open data policies during coming next year. So how can we help these administrations take the first step in open data? In the past, we have already organized some training courses for the administrations. But it's clear that it's not enough. Due to the lack of personnel, lack of time and method, nothing happened after these trainings. So they've not taken the step of open data since these trainings. As I said previously, open data is not only a technical issue. It's a real subject of transformation of local authorities. So what the administrations want and what they need also is to be supported in the implementation of the process. And we are really convinced that they need an additional motivation to really get started. And this motivation could be, for example, working from the the usage of the data. And that's why we have launched in October. We've imagined and set up this new support program called Ouvrir Mavil, Open My City. It's really more than a training course. It's an integrated program who aims to support local authorities till the publication of their first data sets. This program is based on real needs through the development of innovative projects for the citizens. So we designed it five steps, including many trainings, but also workshops, challenges, and coaching. And so the first step was the project addition. So we will start from the usage and we'll go up to the prototyping of the new service for the citizens based on the open data. And it's why this program is a bit original. So this program has allowed participants to discover the opportunities linked to the the opening of data. Also to be trained in the different methodologies and open data techniques, and also to imagine innovative services for their territories using this data. So the main idea of the program was not to settle for training alone, because as I said, the subject is really complex and takes time. So support is necessary. That's why we did this long-term program of five steps from the ideation to the valuation of the project and the data. So the program one run from October to February and we had 27 participants from 16 administrations. So the first step was the addition of the project and the services. So we put on place some workshops using so collective intelligence and by groups of people from different administrations, we try to define new services based on real challenges of the cities. And the idea was that the services was to services using data and were really centered on the final user. Then the second step was workshops about the potential of data for the project. It was also workshop using a methodology of the French thing association, so foundation internet new generation called data potential assessment hood. And the idea was really to identify and qualify all the data needed for the project. We produce what we call the wanted data list. And then the output of this second step was really to write a data roadmap based on the project. So they have with this methodology the participants really had this roadmap and to know what they have to do in the coming steps. And so the third step was maybe the core of the program. It was the collection of the data, the cleaning, the formatting and the opening of them on the on the portals on the the regional portal. So again, we had a lot of trainings workshop and webinar about open data about all kind of subject. So as I said, it's not only a technical issue. If we just stop at the technical issue on technical trainings, it's not enough. So we spoke about legal management, strategy, communication and so on. And for the opening of data, the priority was really given to the data identified during step two, that were data identified for to set up the project of the step one. So four months later, where are we in terms of open data in Wallonia? So we had these two big cities that had a portal. But apart from that, what happened so during the program over in Maville? The administration opened 82 new data sets. It's more than what we imagined. The administration opened that set nine municipalities and three inter municipal associations. So let's think that all these data sets have been opened by administration who never practiced open data before. So 27 people were trained from 16 administration. Yes, so it means that we had 16 administration in the program, but only 12 did really open data because we know that for public authorities, time can be really long before something happens. And sometimes they didn't have the possibility to publish because of the political people didn't want yet to let the data set are opened. But it's still moving in these four cities. But what's important is to we have to take that far beyond the number of data sets published. What is really important is the dynamic that is born during the program because open data is not just publishing some data, but a real exercise in transforming its administrations. And so the program is not an end for the administration, but the start of something new for them. And we know that many initiatives are emerging in some administration that have participated in over in Maville. And we know also that new data sets have been published since the end of the program. So we see now the map of open data in Wallonia, so the two main cities, some of the one and in red, the new data set have been published by these cities. Anyway, in blue, it's the four cities who didn't publish something yet, but it will come in next month, I think. So yes, which kind of data has been published during the program? Amongst these 82 new data sets, we see that's in mainly data about transport and mobility that has been published. Maybe because the program, when we asked people to register for the program, we asked them to choose a thematic because we thought it was easier to work on thematics and to make groups of administration to work together in the collective intelligence workshop. So we wanted to work by thematic and the mobility thematic came in first. So that's why we had most of 20 data sets about mobility. Then culture and heritage, 13 data sets, accommodation and catering, 12 data sets, it was linked to touristic projects, and finally urbanism also, some data sets. So yes, as I said previously, we could go so far in terms of number of data sets published, it's because of the motivation of the administrations to see what developers could do with their data. So I spoke about prototyping of projects and so this step four was really important in the program. It's also quite central because yes, we did a hackathon at the step four. So we asked developers to our students to prototype the project that has been designed during the step one and thanks to the data open during the step three. But this hackathon was not there just for the fun. I will come back to this specific point in a few seconds. But yes, and finally the step five, it's the valuation of the data and the project. This valuation takes place at two levels. First for the administration, we've participated to open my city and also for the region because thanks to the result that we saw, we can engage new administration in the open data process and thanks for example, thanks to the new program that we launched in some weeks. But so for the administration itself, we can show and explain the result to the people in this administration that were not yet convinced by open data. So each participant can come back in this administration with the result, the data that has been opened, but also the usage of the data through the prototype. And yes, and finally, we maybe try to materialize some of the prototype project and we'll go on to animate the growing balloon open data community. We had two cities, now we have 15 cities that practice open data. So we'll try to really create a network and to animate it. So yes, a quick focus on the step four, the hackathon Acure City. So there were four goals for this hackathon. Indeed, as I said, produce open source prototypes of services for the smart region on the base of the project and on the data that has been opened. Secondly, the administration did open the data some weeks, sometimes the day before the hackathon, sometimes it was a bit quick to open the data so the whole dataset have not the same quality. So we wanted that with a direct usage of this data, the quality is tested by the developers. So the developers can come back to the administration saying, okay, this dataset is really fine, it's pertinent, it's useful, it's okay, but this one we have problem of quality and it's that and so the administration can enhance it. First goal was to demonstrate really the usefulness of open data for the development of new services by citizens or enterprise and so on. And yes, first goal was to make administrations want to go further with open data. So when we show what we can do with the data, when we show to the people of the administration that they didn't participate to the program, when we show them all what we can do, they want to go further or we can show also the result to other administrations. So we couldn't do this hackathon in real life. So we used a tool called Gazertown, it's a platform that wants to simulate the real life. So we have some rooms, you can move with an avatar like in a video game, you can move your avatar and the video is just with people around the table or where you are, but you see we have different rooms for trainings, for the workroom, training room or a room to speak in front of everybody the last day. So we have 45 students and 13 teams. So at the end of the three days we had 13 prototypes. Some did really run and some with the display full collaborative interface. So there was really a nice dynamic between the administrations and the students, developers. So it was really, we used to organize some hackathons, but it's the first time we had in the same room people from the administrations and students. It was really, really nice. And the project, yes, finally were presented in front of the virtual audience of guests from different cities. And so some examples of prototypes that he has developed during the hackathon. Here we have a dynamic map of offers and services in the region of Charleroi. Here discover the historical, cultural, architectural and culinary heritage of Shimei. It was a way to promote multimodal mobility. It was a map of the communitarization of the road usage for a peaceful sharing of the territory of the world. And finally, this one, it was a sustainable solution against things. So yes, we had a lot of testimonials, but just to share you some one. The first one said, this experience allowed me to have more precise vision of the importance of opening data with local authorities. But I like also the second one who said when the first datasets were released with a map visualization, so after the hackathon, then the municipal agents with whom I worked understood the process. It was not the case before during the four months of the program. Only this participant didn't understand, but not all the administrations. But when he showed the prototype, they said, oh, wow, it's really nice. So now ideas for new datasets to be published are abounding now. And their preparation is going well. And so I can announce that for little cities, really, really little cities of some thousands of people, they opened, I think, four new datasets here during March. So we asked for the program to set up an open data project in your organization in the future, because it was really the goal of the program. It's not to, we don't want to publish data for them. We don't want just to show how we do. We really wanted to help them to launch a dynamic within their administration. And we saw that 90% of the administration who participated to open your city said, yes, yes, we want to go further. So we are happy because it was really the purpose of the program. And that also will organize a new program in May for new Walloon administrations, local administration, but also administration at the regional level, why not? And it will end in October in our traditional hackathon, Citizens of Wallonia. It's an hackathon that we organize for five years now. But each time it's, when you organize this hackathon, Citizens of Wallonia, people, students, developers, people from enterprise, and so on, come with their own ideas. Here, we saw during our program and the hackathon at your city, that is, we can go further because they had the ideas of projects coming from the cities. So we'll challenge on the territories, but also they were working on real data that has been open during the program. So it's really better to do like that. So we wanted to merge our two programs, OpenWheel and Citizens of Wallonia. So it will long some months, the new program OpenWheel from May to October and in October. And the hackathon Citizens of Wallonia, developers will really work on real projects and real data. So if you have any questions, you can ask now. I'm still available or contact me at this mail address and you can see a lot of things about this program on our website. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Nicolas. Very interesting presentation. I have a first question. Do you already know how many administrations will take part in the second Ouvrir-Mavil project? Not yet. So up to now we have three or four administrations that registered, but the process is quite long because they have to ask the authorities of the city if they can register, if they have a project and so on. So we know it takes time, but we hope to have 15 administrations. I also wanted to mention that anyone who has a question can either ask it in the public chat or you can turn on your audio and ask the question out loud. Maybe another question on my part when we're waiting for more questions from the audience. You showed some numbers in the beginning of your presentation where you said there was a really big difference compared to two years ago. There's a real improvement when it comes to open data. What has changed? Why hasn't it improved so much in two years? On the other side you also showed there. Why? From yours, we have this dynamic smart region with which we organize a lot of of events. When we speak about a lot of subjects, amongst them the data and we explain that data is really a central key point when we want to do smart cities, smart territories, projects. So in futurist, we organize, it shows some events also and that is a central key point of our events. Benoit and question. English or in French? You can maybe turn on your microphone Benoit. Hello Niklas because I'm speaking. Thank you very much for the presentation. Just wanted to ask you because I saw you had a combination between hackathon which is more only focusing on short-term. It's good to motivate people to bring them in a room but you also had a very great focus on the long-term project like regular meetings, being visible as a standard of information, offer workshops, offer contacts, offer practical examples. May I ask you like this concept? Do you see this in other regions in Europe happening in other organizations? Astrid was organizing another call just a few days ago where we had interviews and there was a gentleman talking about like the development in France. For example, we have in other countries, are you with any of them in touch? Do you have exchange sessions on that? Could you elaborate lessons learned? Could we learn from that? Thank you. So indeed we know that in France they have a lot of advance on us and there are a lot of initiatives like Open Data Local or with Open Data France that try to put together the people to speak and to advance together. Or some regions in France also have this kind of networks to work. But we know we should look more of what is happening there or in Flanders. I don't know if in Flanders there is this kind of networks between the cities. It could be a grid information if you can come back to me with this info. But no, we are really at the beginning of this long-term support so we have still to put it in place. Still thank you very much for presenting your work. It is great that we can learn like we have requests from Bulgaria and other countries in Europe but they are looking for such a combination of this short-term activation through hackathons and long-term projects that support projects to show by practical results and I would love to bring them in touch with you to elaborate on your knowledge. Thank you very much. So I saw some questions in the chat about metadata and harmonization of is there an effort to harmonize metadata vocabularies across administrative entities? So it's part of the long-term work that we have to initiate. Now it's really too early to do it so we have to look at what did Namir and Yej up to now. We have to engage them in our network and to help to build a process to harmonize this kind of the formats but also the metadata. But now it's really too early. What we really wanted to do is to support the administration up to they published their first data sets. We know these data sets are not of an optimal quality but at least they want to go further and now we can really begin this process of quality and that you mentioned in your comment. Do you hear me? Yes. Yes. Hello. Philip speaking here. I was asking the question Nikola. Thank you for your answer. I understand very well that it's too early considering where you are in the process but the reason I'm asking that is because I know how much of a challenge that is and I'm pretty sure that it's not the kind of thing that the municipalities will take care of themselves. So the fact that you are acting sort of as an umbrella organization above the municipalities is very important to do that harmonization and since there have been quite a lot of efforts put into that especially in Flanders at the federal level and so on. I was wondering whether it was already considered at the federal level because of course it's not only about Wallonia. I didn't even say it's at the Europe level. There is also a question from Benoit. I think he was able to connect here. Can you hear me? Is it okay? Okay, perfect. My question was quite the same as the one of Philip. I was wondering about the meeting because I have been on the different open data portal in Wallonia, the regional one, but also these from Namir and Leher and I am not sure there's a rule. There are no organizations between the mid-to-data. There are no following the Decade AP profile and so on. So I was wondering if you wanted to fix it because I think it will be a kind of problem because you will have less. It will be less easy to find your data to access to them and if you want to transform your own portal into a kind of federation of portal, you need a harmonization between the different local portal and for now, I found it wasn't enough and there is a kind of big contrast between the lack of harmonization in your portal and the really high qualitative harmonization in the inspired Wallonia portal. So I think there's a kind of you could maybe inspire yourself from the inspired Wallonia portal in terms of civilization. I've not understood everything because the song was not really good but indeed, we don't have the authority to fix the standardization for the data but indeed we really try to make people discuss together and to make cities discuss together to try to launch this challenging process of harmonizing the data at different levels. But we'll do the best we can but we don't have the authority for that. About the region, so we have many things. There's I don't know how to explain it in a chart. I don't know in English what's the real word but we'll have a smart vision chart that exists for years and we'll update it in coming months and years and coming months and we'll try to put this kind of elements in the chart. So for example, if administration wants to participate in a call for projects with money at regional level, they have to sign the smart vision chart. And so if we put some kinds of elements with the data, it will help for example to harmonize the data but it will not be direct because as you said Namur is already is on portal with its own standards, Liege also, but now what can help also is that Namur, Liege and the region do use the same technology for opening their data. So it's an open data soft portal and the fact that everybody will use the same portal and it will help also in doing it. I think you said you don't have any power to fix the lack of harmonization but I was speaking about the harmonization of the metadata and the description of the data. And I think you have all the legal power to do so because for Inspire there are a lot of legal rules concerning the metadata and I think the region can float some decweets and so on to fix that lack because now as far as I see it's not a problem of tools, it's not the open data soft, it's not journey to work or decads, it's a lack of legal rules concerning the description of the data, in my opinion. Yeah exact, exact. So I hope the sorry there's a lot of noise but yes I hope the coming decree that we are still waiting at the Waloo level will fix some of this point. But yeah. In the beginning there was also a question from Joost Hooper, Joost could you maybe ask your question out loud? Yes, did you also prepare official decisions for the municipality? How do municipalities decide which data is open? Do you pick a suitable license? Do you suggest they're opening the license all their website content? Okay so I don't have the authorities to say to the administration what the municipality is, what they have to open or no. During the program we worked by thematics and so the way they decide which data to open was really linked to the project they imagined during the step one of the program. So for example they said I need data about the mobility, about the bicycle, the bus and so on so they wanted to open this data first. About the license, they used the old data that were published during this program were opened on the regional portal. So they used the license of this portal because none of these cities do have their own portal yet. But I know there's still a lack in the yes about the license at the regional level because but we have no decree yet and so it will be a point also it should be fixed when the final decree will be there. Yeah so my questions come a bit from I'm working at a provincial level myself and so what we notice is that the Flemish decree is very detailed in most of these things so it's really easy to pick a license it's really it's in there you don't have to really choose but a thing that is lacking is exactly that decision process like so in theory all the data that local governments produce is open data but then in practice there are some exceptions and and so you need some sort of local government decision to say okay as a civil servant you can safely say that this is in fact open data because that's the law so the level of detail of the decree if you have some influence on that it's very useful if the decision process in practice is also defined in there like so the more you take out of the hands of the local municipalities the easier you make it for the employees to decide okay so we can definitely say that this content is in fact openly licensed okay yes it's a good point so uh so the decree is prepared also by uh with with Digital Wallonia and so they are in the in the loop uh for for this decree and so I think they will really think about that but uh because I see that there are people of Digital Wallonia that are there today so they really uh your remark and uh yes okay it's a good point thanks but I have no authority on that thank you yes I see a question or a remark from peterian within datagouf effort they use specific people to find value in data there's also a large effort across the french public sector to identify data which should be valuable for to provide in data from datagouf is also heavily promoted yes it's not yet the case in in belgium but I hope we'll we'll go at this point in the coming years I see that there there's more a discussion rather than questions in the chat I don't know if you have any comments on this yes from your side but again I I agree with some remarks we we need more more regulations and we are still waiting waiting so and when we'll have this this final decree it will help also our work to to support the administration in their digital transformation to to to smart territories using or or producing open data what timeline for the new decree maybe you've mentioned it already I've missed it is is there any is there one no the the the first decree uh was uh voted in 2017 or quite a long time ago but uh it's not yet in application and I think they have to to write it again because it was not uh perfect no not not good enough but I've no it's it's a political decision so we are waiting okay I don't see any more questions no you're right and we have covered our 45 minutes so if you don't mind I will end the recording of the session but we can still leave the chat open for comments for questions maybe for a few more minutes