Data, Data, Everywhere and not a Byte to Eat – The Data
Challenge in Smart CitiesOpen Data / Smart Cities / Smart Data
Tim WilloughbyLGMA
Shared Service for Local Government
Smart Cities…
•Smart city is a journey – not a destination•Ireland has an opportunity – •Smart Country…•What are / should the Local Authorities do…
Challenge with Data…
• When you view the world through the lens of Local Government - everything you view relates to that…• When you have a hammer –
everything becomes a nail…
Smart Country –How do we know when we are there?• A broadband infrastructure• widely available and affordable to all
• Applications and services in areas• such as Transport, safety, health, education and economy
• An interconnection between and across Agencies and Communities • through a Standardised Integrated service architecture
• A platform for innovation (data and information services)• promotes the development of new applications and services
The World has changed…
Change is …
Technological ChangeOpen standardsPublish Data so it can be consumed internally / externallyInformation and Decision making
Cultural ChangeTraditional Information SilosBuild Trust and reduce fear of data TransparencyCrowd sourcing PrinciplesO
utsi
de In
fluen
ces
Internal Comm
and and Control
Radical Change is happening – With or Without the Owners / Shareholders
Change is coming
• New approach to the capture and use of data • Building of teams across the sector that blurs county boundaries• Centrally mandated architectural approach adopted• Sourcing practices to achieve economies of scale• Use procurement frameworks and maintain local enterprise.
DOE
DOT
Central Reporting Framework
Health
SFA
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How much being usedHow much is capable of being used?
How Much Data do you create?
It knows more about you than your partner…
Source : Peter Cochrane
How to deal with Lots of data
• 7TB a Day for Twitter…• 10,000 CD’s• 5m Floppy• 225GB during this talk…• How do you Store that…• HD Write Speed- 80mb/s… • 24.3 Hrs to write 7TB…. • Government Thinking is not in this space.. Yet..
So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government
• 1990s: lCT expected to make government more transparent, efficient and user oriented • 2005+: disillusion as
bureaucracy still in existence• Is Open Data / smart city the
answer?
Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet
Meanwhile in Local Government – Shared Services….• HR, Payroll, Superannuation• Accounts Payable• ICT BackOffice• Procurement• Irish Water• NPPR• POW
Priorities
Procurement
PayrollSuperannuation
Treasury
Accounts Payable
eInvoice
Portal ICT BackofficeGIS
SocialMedia
Open Data
Public Lighting
Paid Parking
Library
OnlineServices Big discussion
Keeping up.. Like playing tetris…
$12M$74M170%34%60M
Power and Space Savings Data Center Equipment SavingsGain in Storage Admin ProductivityIncrease in Energy EfficiencyPounds of CO2 Reduced
CAPEX
OPEX
Productivity Loss
Total Cost of Ownership
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a
Service
Desktop as a Service
Enterprise Applicatio
ns as a Service
Security
Systems
Storage
Backup and
Recovery
Data Center
Networks
Standards across Local Government…
(es)
Transparency
Big Data in Local Government
Participation
My Council Dashboard
Current Street Average
Your Year to Date Amount
Current Waste Trade Price/kilo
€0.58
Crowdsourcing
Semantic Web - The Journey to a Local Government Portal
Semantic Data Legislation Events Detail Management Details Councillor Details Publishing Regimes Services - Planning, Housing, etc GIS Maps …..
For Humans…
For Machines
Hyperlinks…
Semantic Links
RDF Data RDF Data
Collaboration
Local Government Portal
• Standards• Service Catalogue – How can we present
data together if it isn’t the same service?• Ontology – Produce Open Data (RDFa) for
Standard Entities • People, Services, Events, Updates, Locations,
etc
• Reuse Information across the Sector• FixYourStreet• CheckTheRegister• MyPlan
• Data• CKAN / Data.Localgov.ie• Gis Data / Inspire
• Service Catalogue• Open Data• CRM• GIS• Knowledge Management• Content Management Systems• Online Services
What is Data Interoperability?What is Data Interoperability?The ability to exchange information between and
among public bodiescross discipline, cross jurisdiction, cross sector.
Assumptions:1. Exchanges would benefit one or more agencies2. Philosophy of “need to know” is replaced by “responsibility
to provide”
Shared Datacan be critical
in emergency response!
Traffic Weather / Flooding Outbreaks Roads /
Rivers Citizens
Local Government Issue?Information does not stop at the County Boundary
• We have almost as many man-made boundaries as we have data sets
What has Cloud ever done for us?
Apart from Scale, Speed, Agility, Low Cost, Enterprise Adoption, Enterprise Mapping, Open Data, Standards, Google, API’s, etcOpen Street Maps, Map Servers, Telephony, Cloud Expansion etc
Drivers – Open Data
Open Data – Natural Progression…• Standards…• Ability to Link relevant data to make
even more
Linked Data
• High or recognised Value (transparent)• Cool, High Value Apps – from Local data
Public Data
• Manage their own Data• Implication for Health and Social Care
Citizens First
Drivers – Personal Productivity
More and more connected things..
Challenges
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GOVERNMENT MUST CHANGEADAPT
THINK AND ACTDIFFERENTLY
Citizen Expectation Changed?Social
Media
Mobi
le
Feeds
Web
Publicati
on
Integratio
n of Web
data sets
Mashup applications
Are we there yet?
• Services based on Aggregation of data from Multiple Authorities• Services based on data from
multiple sensors• Apps based on making it easier to
play with our stuff..• Imagine the Local Elections using
FOAF and Semantic Web to exchange information
we’ll always have reasons to say no!
Computer Says no..
We need to be decisive
Yeah but, no but, Yeah but
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