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02/10/2017News
Open data at ENGIE
It’s a whole culture in transformation.
To encourage open data at ENGIE is to promote an open organisation that streamlines the collection and processing of data, organises transversality within the Group and promotes learning for all in its missions.
Externally, open data would enable us to co-build a solid ecosystem and enhanced, innovative offers with our partners. It would also reflect an image of openness and transparency for customers.
These opportunities are already partly a reality for our Group. But it is possible to go further.
> The France Renewable Energy BU has already opened up its data externally
> GRDF is using open data to create value
A ‘Manifesto’ to make open data comprehensible and accessible to all.
ENGIE’s Digital and Information Systems Department, in partnership with numerous heads of departments and actors of change in the organisation, is investing in this field by backing the co-construction of a Group-wide “Open Data Manifesto”, through the instigation of collective thinking, open to all employees. This manifesto would be yours, and proof that everyone is participating in the transformation of our Group and our ways of working.
Come and discover the launch platform, which opens the debate in a simple manner to allow everyone to give his or her vision of an open data project at ENGIE, and the potential this has for the future of the Group.
When we talk about “open data”, we are referring to a set of data made available and rendered anonymous by institutions, companies and individuals so that anyone can access, use and share it in the interests of creating value and enhanced solutions of all kinds.
Opening up data is therefore both a powerful indicator of transparency and trust in a company, and the opportunity to discover new economic opportunities.
What data are we talking about?
All kinds of data. Customer data, anonymous of course, but also data that we generate in our operational activities, sometimes without knowing it, and which have value: production data from our industrial assets, data on the purchase of spare parts, issued from connected objects or data related to contracts, for example. The list is immense; everything is potentially usable in our activities. Once contextualized and processed, data generates information, then knowledge usable by all.
Making all this data freely accessible means that we can significantly increase our knowledge of our environment. Initiatives are flourishing in the public sector, but the field of possibilities is still open for companies like ENGIE.
Deepen your understanding of Open Data
What do you mean when you say that data is “open”?
Data is open if everyone can use and share it freely, without restrictions. A legal framework ensures freedom of use, and since 2015 a wave of regulations has been encouraging and regulating the practice of open data by ensuring the anonymisation of personal data.