Innovation Academy 2016 - Sofia Municipality Innovation Hackathon 2016. Sabina Panayotova. A tale of 5 cities & open data.

1. A TALE OF 5 CITIES & OPEN DATA
MUNICIPALITY INNOVATION HACKATHON

4. LONDON
http://data.london.gov.uk/
> 650 datasets (they
were 500 in April)
> 5,000 developers
registered only for the
transportation data
Main topics:
transportation,
education, rent and
development

5. 1. Data owned by public
entities belongs to the
public
2. Impacts the lives of
millions of people on
a daily basis
3. Saves money
4. Crowdsourcing
innovation

6. CHICAGO
Zoom in: from the
problems of the city to
the problems of the
micro community.
Open source, real time.
Customized to work
with different database
engines or APIs - you
can add your own.

8. Chicago arrest rates and total % of all crimes by
category
Chicago crime visualizations
All data in Chicago is open:
transportation, building maintenance
records, utility usage and 911
dispatches.

9. NEW YORK
> 1300 data sets
Commitment: all city
data must be open by
2018 by law
Again transport, fire
risks

10. AMSTERDAM
Smart City commitment -
including a separate website
for that
Interactive maps - combining
data to help both citizens
and tourists
Energy Atlas - maps energy
use across the city aiming at
CO2 reduction and a greener
city in general

11. OTHER
public transport data + Foursquare data =
Blindsquare (app that helps blind people get around
the city, costs 30USD on the AppStore)
Helsinki:
Street Bump - helps the city plan how and where to
spend road improvement funds
Food Police - an app for restaurant health and safety
scores.
Ungentry = census data + open data to see how
government policy impacts gentrification
Boston:

12. SOFIA
Commitment - over 300
open datasets by the end of
2016 on government level.
Gреаt developers
What more do we need?
LET’S PROVE
OPEN DATA
USEFUL!

13. Showing transparity:
Willingness to work together
Identifying problems:
looking at what people use the most gives a good idea what are the main
problems of the city
Solving problems:
you already know what the problem, use data to solve it!
Bigger team:
Increases the municipality teams on any problem by N (N = the indefinite
number of citizens who know how to use data)