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8. ENABLING SMART
CITY SERVICES
THROUGH OPEN
DATA & MOBILE– THE
MANCHESTER
EXPERIENCE
ADRIAN SLATCHER
London 2014
9. Smart City – the UK
Context
UK PLC needs its major
cities to become
smarter in order to -:
- Enhance GDP
- Develop the city-regions
- Address economic
imbalances
- Emphasise local
strengths
- Develop a market for
smart city services
- “Core Cities” agenda
sees cities outside of
London collaborating
- Combined Authority
for Greater
Manchester “Devo
Manc” leading on
devolved powers
- Strong knowledge
clusters e.g. eHealth,
GreenTech,
broadcast, digital
marketing
10. Smart City Visions
Working with
innovation agencies
(Future Cities
catapult; Nesta etc.)
Developing a vision
across different areas
of working –
transport; planning;
ICT; environment;
culture
Digital Agenda >
Smart City Agenda
Local ecologies –
SMEs, developers,
citizen activists,
creative, academics,
citizens
Doing more with less
Developing new
markets e.g.
Cloud/ICT
11. Tools for Smart Cities
Moving from a “project”
or “pilot” context to a
more holistic “toolkit” for
the smart city”
- APIs
- Methodologies
- Policies and
procedures
- Data
- Standards
CitySDK
www.citysdk.eu –
APIs for mobility,
participation and
tourism
Commons 4 EU –
code fellows
programme
www.codeforeurope.n
et
Tools for cocreation of
applications
www.citadelonthemov
e.eu
12. Enabling Cities to Release their
Data
What datasets can we
release?
What format should we
release them in?
What needs to be done
to improve and
understand the data?
How can the datasets
be linked together?
Providing tools for
converting CSV files
Merging data with maps
to create geolocative
applications
Add new layers of data
to improve
understanding and
develop “intelligence”
Combining data from
different cities
Combining tools from
different projects
13. Towards a Civic Innovation
Platform
Working with
businesses, developers
and academics
Creating “innovation”
teams to deliver
solutions
An “open stack”
approach > enabling
new
technologies/suppliers
to be combined as
“best of breed”
Our experience with
Citadel: cocreation with
developers, citizens,
city officials and others
Enabling visualisations
and applications that
can quickly answer
problems
Helping us as a city
improve our data
Sharing solutions
between cities and
regions
14. Thank You
Adrian Slatcher
a.slatcher@manchesterdda.c
om
@adrianslatcher
15. London 2014
APPS 4 DUMMIES
OPEN DATA FOR
SMARTER CITIES
BEN CAVE - 21C
CONSULTANCY
22. Solve Complex Challenges
Chicago uses ‘Windy Grid’ to give City
Administrators the ability to detect
infrastructure problems in real-time
Exeter uses local citizens to
troubleshoot future problems with
highways usage
India uses Open Data to enforce
accountability and regulatory
compliance in the mining industry
23. Improve Transparency
Uganda’s School Funding Data helped fight
corruption to increase the proportion of
allocated funds reaching schools from 20%
to >90%
The UK’s Open Data Portal helped They
Work for You become a trusted resource for
citizens with over 300,000 monthly visits by
citizens
South Korea’s Open Spending Data site
reduced the perception of local government
corruption from 68% to 53% within 1 year
24. Strengthen Local Economy
Manchester – £8.5 Million
Annual Saving is Request
Compliance
Europe – £40 Billion in
Added Value
Canada - $3.2 Billion in
Charitable Tax Code Violations
Caught Through Open Data
Finland – SMEs grew
15% faster in 1 year
with Open Data
Denmark - €14 Million Return
on €0.2 Million Investment in
Open Address Data
27. Reason: Case Studies Grab
Headlines
‘London Fire Labs’ visualises the impact
of Fire Station closures and make
smarter strategic choices
Open Workspaces gives Small
Businesses access to up-to-the-minute
information about affordable
workspaces near them
TFL Live Feeds power more than 5000
Apps helping Londoners navigate the
city more effectively
29. Reason: Supply Creates Demand
in OD
Creative Economies develop wherever the supply
of quality Open Data exists
Consumers for Open Data greatly increase the
Economic & Social returns of Reuse
Technologies like Citadel exist to make the Open
Data process cost effective and simple
All that is needed to create regional Open Data
powerhouses is data commitments and support of
senior leadership in these authorities
82. 1. Democratising Access to the Open
Data
“Tools So Easy Even a 9
Year Old Can Make An
App”
Convertor lets
anyone turn
datasets into useful
formats
App Generator kick
starts local people
in building
personalised new
83. 2. Generating New & Creative Data
Use
View Local Trees Discover Nearby
Parking
Enjoy City Galleries Find Closest ATM
84. 3. Capturing the Imagination
A Story That Went
Around The World
- More than 80
Countries
86. Become an Open Data Champion
In 30 minutes we
promise to turn you
from Open Data
Skeptic to Zealot!
87. Ready to Go!
Break Out Teams of 2-3
Follow your flashcards
Tackle our 5 challenges:
1. Raiders of the Lost [Data] Ark – Explore our
Data
2. Take It Further – Join Our Platform
3. ‘Appy Ever After – Build Your First App
4. In the Brag – Share Your Work with Friends
5. Comparing is Natural – Browse Our Apps
88. Challenge 1: Raiders of the Lost
[Data] Ark
Scenario: While walking around the office one day, you notice a colleague
playing with an app on their phone. Curious about it, you ask them what they
are looking at. They tell you they are checking out this new system called
Citadel that creates Apps in minutes right there on your mobile. You ask more
and they tell you that Citadel uses Open Data from all over the world as fuel
for new apps. Having had a look around the Citadel platform, you discover
that Citadel has data from more than 100 cities from around the world stored
right there at your fingertips. Curious about what might be available, you
decide to browse the data for interesting information.
Steps:
Visit the Citadel homepage at citadelonthemove.eu
Click on the icon
Select
You are now on Citadel’s dataset catalogue
Have a browse through the different categories and find a dataset that
interests you
89. Challenge 2: One of Us!
Scenario: Having found some interesting information, you decide to
create an account on the Citadel site to explore further what you can do
…
Steps:
Go to the homepage - www.citadelonthemove.eu/en-us/home.aspx
Click on the icon in the top right hand corner of the screen
Enter the required fields and click
You can also register with Facebook, Google+ and Twitter
Hurrah! You are now registered.
Tip: Click on your username in the top right hand corner of the screen,
once logged in, to edit your profile.
90. Challenge 3: ‘Appy Ever After
Scenario: Okay now we are in business! You have found a dataset that
captures your imagination (maybe its London’s Best Coffee Shops or the
TFL tube stops!). Now it’s time to see that data in a whole new light. You
decide to create a brand new app using your favourite dataset so you can
see how it would look on a map…
Steps:
Click on the icon
Select
Fill in the required fields, select your chosen dataset and choose a
colour for your app
You must also name and provide a description for your app
Click on the icon
Congratulations! You have now created your very own application
Tip: Adding an image to your application makes other users more likely to
view it.
91. Challenge 4: In The Brag
Scenario: Okay so you’ve made an app and you are rightly feeling
pretty pleased with yourself. But what’s the point in being an Open
Data pro if no one knows what you have done. Time to brag to some
friends by sharing your App on Facebook and Twitter…
Steps:
Click on the icon
Select
Click on your chosen application
Click on the Facebook/Twitter icons to share the application with your
friends
92. Challenge 5: Comparing Is Natural
Scenario: Colleagues around the office are starting to look at you in a new
way after you show them your new app. After all, this morning you didn’t
know your Open Data from your elbow and now you have just created
your first app. Time to see what other people using Citadel are doing with
their time. You discover that there are more than 600 applications created
by people just like you waiting to be found…
Steps:
Click on the icon
Select
Look through the catalogue
Click on an app that interests you
93. How’d We Do?
Tell us about your
experience with the
challenges?
How has your attitude
to Open Data changed?
What could we be doing
better?
95. Open Data in Daily Work
Get data out there. You can
always make it better later
Support the community in using
Open Data. They are the engine
of growth
Get colleagues onside using
newfound skills
Shout about your Open Data
work. Leeds will be getting all the
attention
96. Standards & Guidelines
Citadel Standards
White Paper
Released 12/14
Citadel Open Data
Business
Requirements
Released 12/14
To receive an
exclusive copy, leave
a card with me
afterward
97. Generate Case Studies
Join our 100-strong community
of local authorities across the
world
Exchange tips for success
from those who have done it
already
Forge global data twinning for
improved publicity and tourism
98. Future Workshops
Part of a 4-country
introductory series
In-depth workshops
coming up in Leeds,
Copenhagen & Aarhus
Would you like a
tailored Apps4Dummies
workshop for your
area? Speak with me
afterward
Data is now produced by everything from our mobile phones to our traffic lights.
The amount of data produced has grown exponentially as computers have permeated all areas
The Data explosion has left us with masses of new information about everyday life.
Increasingly, data is the way we understand the world.
When put into the form of attractive visualisations, data lets us:
gain a new perspective on familiar situations
understand complex evidence
deepen our understanding of how we live.
Everything from lifelogging applications to track your health to data about how we use our mobile phones has created a new generation of people for whom data is a key to understanding the world.
Data is crucial to our daily lives.
Immense value remains to be gained from the information held by governments.
Financial benefits
Political benefits
Environmental benefits
Social dividends to be reaped from using our data better.
The data held by governments has the potential to:
drive new services
inspire completely new solutions
improve the way we live our lives.
Data opened to creative people fuels new discoveries
Open Data innovation at a pace and scale far larger than government could hope to achieve alone.
More than 1000 annual Freedom of Information requests in Manchester
Compliance often takes significant time and money
Where data is not readily available even more expensive
Information has to be compiled and released manually
Open Data Manchester allowed the city to release numerous datasets
Releases pre-empt freedom of information requests
Open Data driving down costs for compliance
Allowed the city to save more than £8.5 million annually through reduced compliance costs
Rapidly expanding city with growing pressure for better services
Budget crisis driving efficiencies and reductions
Problems in such a large city cannot all be solved by government
Resources simply don’t exist to tackle some profound city issues like heating, rent controls or commuter management.
Annual challenge competition held for 5 years
Channels creativity toward pressing issues
Prizes for the winners
Prize money returned x10 in value of new apps
More than 2000 annual entrants
Solved some of the city’s most complex problems
Driving New York’s tech reputation
Citizen trust was at an all-time low
Local government under increasing pressure to provide data about their decisions
Demand for transparency
Helsinki created regional hub to publish all government decisions
Huge improvement in image of government among citizens
Improving trust and reputation
NAPTAN Database of British Transport Stops has more than 330,000 Data Points.
Took 4 Years to create at considerable cost
Very difficult dataset to compile information.
15,000 of the bus stops are displayed in incorrect locations.
The NaPTAN database was opened up to volunteers from the OpenStreetMap - a volunteer-driven mapping community
Corrected mistaken locations of more than 15,000 Bus Stops.
NaPTAN now has very high accuracy rates
Active volunteer community troubleshooting and maintaining the data free of charge
Post Office had no accurate data on the 45,829 UK post box locations
Freedom of Information Requests forced them to consider the problem
Lack of Data caused confusion for those wishing to find a box in a new place
Without reliable data no-one could build good apps
Matthew Somerville Crowdsourced data clean up of post box locations in 2009.
All data was made available to the public to check and amend
Within 6 months all errors had been caught
OpenStreetMap Volunteers added more than 30,000 Post Box locations to the initiative
Caught significant errors in the original data
Created a reliable and accurate dataset for developers to build new apps
Services like Local Postbox now display locations quickly and easily
Open data often remains the preserve of a high-tech few
Obscure formats and technical sites deter ordinary people from exploring & using data
Citadel on the Move provides a free, easy-to-use set of tools
Allow anyone to quickly publish in an open, reusable format
Allow anyone to create simple, easy-to-use apps which visualise the results.
The whole process – from opening the dataset to creating the app -can be completed in less than 1 hour
Can be used by someone with no prior experience
The more accessible the data is, the more it is used
The more the data is used, the more value the city gets from it
The more value the city gets, the better for the local administration
To help you get the most out of Citadel, we have come up with a ‘day in the life’ of an Open Data user. Follow the steps below to go from complete beginner to data pro using Citadel.