Thanks very much, Florian.
The relevant section is now online http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/report
with thanks to REEEP for permission etc.
Cheers
Phil.
On 24/07/2012 08:29, Florian Bauer wrote:
Yes, please go ahead
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Archer [mailto:ph...@w3.org]
Sent: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 09:18
To: Florian Bauer
Subject: Re: Can we say...
Thanks very much for this Florian - that's very helpful.
May I include this in the report? I needed to write to Julian Tait to seek
clarification on some of what he said (or rather, some of what was
recorded in the minutes). I ended up re-wording the relevant section a
little and quoting his e-mail more or less verbatim. can I do the same
with this please?
Phil.
On 24/07/2012 07:25, Florian Bauer wrote:
Hi Phil
This is of course a valid and good question - unfortunately really
hard to answer as we cannot track what people are doing with the
information they get on reegle. What we know is, that users spend much
more time on the country profile pages than on other pages on reegle,
which indicates that they carefully read what we present them. We also
recently did a survey during a Project Managers Meeting (this is our
annual meeting where all the project implementers of REEEP's funded
projects come together) and asked them about Open Data and its
importance for Policy Making. The summary, which is based on
interviews with 33 project implementers from 13 developing countries,
is:
Data for policy support and successful project implementation
Robust-decision making regarding targeted policies in clean energy
development depends on a variety of information and data. Such data
has to be analyzed and baselines have to be established for
benchmarking.
Open (Government) Data can support policy-making and implementation in
many areas of sustainable development - some examples are:
. An example is the biomass briquetting market where
factors such as data of different biomass resources, their geographic
distribution, quality and energy use data determine the right polices.
Yet there are still significant difficulties in accessing the needed
data which comes from different sources.
. In the area of electricity transmission and
distribution there is a great need for detailed and reliable technical
data, yet much of it is being kept secret by utilities and authorities.
. Another field is the establishment of baselines to
identify most efficient systems, and again the relevant data is often
not available and accessible.
. Renewable energy potentials, like solar
irradiation,
are another crucial consideration for policy-makers and project
implementers.
This will be part of a publication that is planned to be released in
autumn.
Hope that helps a bit,
Florian
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Archer [mailto:ph...@w3.org]
Sent: Montag, 23. Juli 2012 13:12
To: Florian Bauer
Subject: Can we say...
Hi Florian,
I'm working through some comments from my boss on the PMOD report. In
it, I currently say:
"One example of how Linked Open Data is being used to very good effect
to inform discussions held by policy makers and others is the clean
energy information portal, Reegle. Data is taken from many different
sources, triplified where necessary, and then combined and presented
to more then
220,000 users per month through a well established information gateway.
Reegle provides high quality information on renewable energy
efficiency and climate compatible development around the world as
easily navigable graphs and tables with a lot of additional information
on hand too.
Importantly this is an example of a tool that interprets raw data to
provide useful information and context for end users."
He (Thomas) asks:
Is there anything we can say about the impact on policy-making that
arises out of more than 220,000 users per month accessing this service?
The number sounds impressive, but I can't tell whether everybody
just says "nice graph" and clicks on.
Can you help us with this one?
Cheers
Phil.
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