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Smart Places Workshop – into a
different future
Martin Ferguson
Director of Policy & Research

2.
Smart Places
Workshop:
Outline
• Introduction
• Jos Creese
• Steve Johnson
• Panel discussion
• Open discussion
• Summary – Socitm and
LCIOC policy position

3.
‘Going places’

4.
Smart Places
• Not a technocratic construct …
not designed to sell products and services
• Start with people …
communities …
places …
priorities …
outcomes

5.
Smart Places
How we live:
our homes, our education, our work, our leisure time, our
health, our safety, our spaces, our connectivity, our
creativity, our contribution (social capital), our democratic
engagement …

6.
Smart Places
Issues like:
• building standards
• water, waste and energy – production, use and demand
management at the micro level
• seamless connectivity - 5G, wireless and broadband
connections
– all adds up to greater sustainability and reduced
environmental impact

7.
Smart Places
e.g. improving air quality:
not helped by squeezing ever more motorised vehicles onto
our roads at the expense of walking, biking and e-
commuting

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Smart Places
Jos Creese
Digital Advisor CCL and Socitm Associate Director

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The Smart City myth
• Smart cities are the future – tech innovation, investment
• Most people live in cities
The case for smart places, building on smart city concepts
where people and geography lie at the heart of design
So much more than travel, transport and parking apps –
but location intelligence is central

10.
7 smart places guides

11.
• Technology – reliable, effective, agile, amendable
• Standards and standardisation
• People – designing for intuitive, safe and secure access
• Data, Data, Data – and information from data
• Geo data – location, buildings, ‘things’, people
Critical components

12.
Why it matters
1.Travel and mobility within and between urban areas and
across the UK.
2.Environmental management, protection and access to
areas.
3.Business growth and investment, stimulating a digital
economy.
4.Education, skills, digital apprenticeships and jobs for
everyone, anywhere.
5.Democratic rebirth, changing how politicians and public
services engage with citizens.
6.Social and Community, improving resilience, safety, health
and wellbeing.
7.Digital Infrastructure and technology for local business,
public services and individuals.

13.
Smart Places – Changing the Face of Local Public Services
IoTOpen data
Smart learning
Mesh of Broadband,
Mobile and Wifi
Smart energy
Smart mobility
Smart home
Smart care
Smart retail
Communiti
es
Business
Environmen
t
Public
Services
Education
Travel
Connectivit
y
Resources and
Environmental
Protection
Digital
industry
growth and
digital
citizens
Connected
Infrastructure
and Public
Services
Unified View
of travel and
movement
Collaborative
Governance
and regional
planning
Smart parking
Digital democracy
Smart
Policing
Safe at home
leisure
Jobs, skills &
digital citizens
Smart
Logistics
Economic
Prosperity &
jobs
Social
Cohesion &
sustainable
communities
Strong &
accessible
Public
Services
Sustainable
Resources &
environment

14.
Smart Cities concepts are widening to whole regions,
reflecting better how we all live, work and spend our
leisure. Geospatial data is at the core of this, connecting
people, communities, ‘things’, services and wider
information with a locality.
“Geo-based technologies create digital transformation
at its very best – with ‘people and places’ at the heart of
design for economic and social value.”

15.
• Massive growth in structured & unstructured
data about people, places and things
• Massive growth in data collecting devices
BUT
• Our ability to keep pace and turn this into
usable information has not kept pace.
• There is a ‘white noise’ of data

16.
The Challenge
• Professional silos
• Data islands/reusability
• Standards and safety
• Information tools
• Advocacy for geosystems
• Technology innovation
• Data shortage
• Skills
• Demand
• Opportunity and need
NOT
Is ……

17.
Public Services
PolicyandPlanning
LeisureActivity
Business Services
• Resource targeting and policy testing
• Minimising avoidable cost
• Enhanced democracy and engagement
• Safety – Org.s, community and individual
• Prediction and influence of behaviours
• Transparency, open data, accountability
In Smart Places these interconnect
around a location and people in ways
never before possible:

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Key Message – “Everything Happens Somewhere”
• Location-based data is central to the future of all smart places – ‘engine room and services’
• This depends however in connections being made – more than data layers over maps
• ‘Location’ is more than geography – region, area, town, building, virtual places, our bodies
The value is immense:
 Predictive analysis
 Collaboration
 Identity management, control and protection
 Building management, design and use
 Policy formulation and democratic engagement
 Energy, transport, environment
 Health, well-being and safety (geo-medicine)
 Future technology exploitation (IoT)

19.
Jos Creese
Digital Advisor
CCL
Twitter: @JosCreese
Questions?

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Smart Places
Steve Johnson
Regional Director, Northern Europe, Ruckus

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Panel:
Noelle Godfrey – Programme Director Connecting Cambridgeshire
and Head of Digital Infrastructure, Cambridgeshire County Council
James Harris – Policy and Networks Manager, Royal Town Planning
Institute
David Hodcroft - Principal (Strategic Planning), Greater Manchester
Combined Authority
Raj Mack - Head of Digital Birmingham
Dylan Roberts – Chief Digital Officer, Leeds City Council
Dr Larissa Suzuki - Senior Project Manager at Greater London
Authority

22.
Summary policy position
• Socitm and the Local CIO Council’s position on the
capacity and capabilities needed to deliver a smart
places approach across the diverse geographies that
make up the UK

23.
Our asks of new Government
• Cyber security – invest in regional capacity
and capability
• Counter terrorism – implications for local
public services infrastructure
• Health and social care – invest in place-
based implementation
• Invest in digital and leadership skills,
retention and retraining
• Invest in standards and shared platforms

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martin.ferguson@socitm.net