gis open source and cloud potentials

Tim Willoughby, Assistant Director, LGCSB

Cloud and open source GIS

The Currency of your data• Automating Change

Management• Information where and when it is

required• Flexible digital delivery• Data Accuracy Improvement• Do you trust your Data enough to

share it?

5 Business Drivers

• SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Web 2.0 / 3.0, Peer to Peer• Addressing and Adapting change and to change

The World has to be on the Cloud

• Instantaneous, Online Response from Inter-continental companies• Digital Supply Chain across Global companies / across the globeThe World is Flat

• Environmental Compliance• Reduce your own and your companies Carbon FootprintThe world is green

• Consumers and Workforce - always on - connected anywhere• Increased demand and expectation for servicesThe World is Mobile

• Energy and Cost Efficient Computing and Data Centres• Flatter Budgets require Efficiencies CAPX and OPEX

The World of Low Cost ICT

Effective Communication

• Clear Messages• Reduce Complexity• Don’t have opinions on

everything• Good and Bad News

Security is changing

• Security has to be appropriate• Security has to be measured • Can have things so secure that they are

unusable.

Cloud / Open is forcing ChangeWith or Without the Owners / Shareholders

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

• Can Cloud Help?

Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

Goverment dont always Understand What the people Want?

What governments often Deliver

why is crowd sourcing important?

Crowd Source – Group Collaboration is more powerful than individual achievement

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Typical Individual effort

many hours, one map2

OpenStreetMap, 2011

200,000 contributors, one map3

why is open source important?

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

- Eric S. Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative

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why is open source important?

free speech

why is open source important?

“Think free as in free speech, not free beer.”

- Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation

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who uses open source?

90% of supercomputers60% of internet servers30% of smart phones

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What is Cloud?

A pool of highly scalable, abstracted infrastructure, capable of hosting end-customer applications, that is billed by consumption.

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What has Cloud ever done for GIS?

Apart from Scale, Enterprise Mapping, Open Data, Standards, Google, API’s, Open Street Maps, Map Servers,

GIS - More than just Location, Spatial Analysis and wider adoption now possible

What do you need for GIS

HardwareSoftwareDataPeopleTrainingProcesses

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Or.. Another way

Hardware

Software

DataPeople / Training

Processes

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• Network• Computers• Servers

• Cloud

Hardware

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• GIS Software• Data Software• OS Software• Network Software

• Open Source

HardwareSoftware

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• Standards• Specifications• Guidelines

• Evolving

Hardware People / TrainingProcesses

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• We have lots• GIS – About the Data..• Tools are important,

standards more so

• Evolving

HardwareData

Why do Government use GIS• Massive demand for timely, relevant information — “picture says a

1000 words” • Support decision making

– Provide users with all the information required to make an informed decision.– Ability to integrate vast amounts of data within one View (Mashup)– Exploit visualisation techniques to present information according to user

preference (Raster, vector, 3D, tabular etc) – Visualise /identify patterns/trends etc – Personalisation– Mobile

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The Data Underworld

Massive network of services: water, sewage, drains … Need to know asset location for planning and maintenance Many databases, varying accuracy and provenance Context

Ongoing street openings p.a. Safety!

Its all about where..

GIS Geographic Information

System• We have come a long way

Or Wizards

GIS is now Mainstream

Still need Common Sense

Where we want to be?Where we want to be?

Have Data

Have Sharing

Infrastructure

Can Collabo

rate

“No County

Left Behind”

Local Government and Open Source

The World is changing

open source / open data / cloudthe fix your street model

mobile apps – the new frontier of local government

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Open Source – Pavement - Road Opening Management

from: physical, the (qr code), online source, & augmented reality

Social and Multi MediaResponding through innovation

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Open Data

• Addressing Prime 2, Opportunities for change, GeoDirectory, PRA

• Security Surveillance, Privacy, Confidentiality, • Standards Protocol for Use, Governance,

Adoption, Developments, • Enterprise Apps, Commercialisation, Economic

Benefits, Education, Jobs Initiatives, • Citizenship What does the citizen want from

Open Data?

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Open Data?

Final Innovation

• The Minister always has 5 Aces

• The Problem with a Bridge is...

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Why Bother?

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Are we There yet?• No - Many issues to be sorted out• Data• Data Protection, Data Retention, Data Availability, Data Retrieval, Continuity, Backup,• Continuity, Controllers v’s Processors• Security• Access Control, Where is my data, who has access to it, virtually, actually, physically• SLA• Standard for whole world, Specific for Government or you..• Legality• Data Protection, Consumer Law, Liability for Breach, Contract Terms – Standardised..• Closed / Open Source• Risk• Cloud not specifically Regulated for – doesn't mean its not regulated• Exit• Provide for Exit in Contact – Interoperability of Cloud...Which Cloud