My name is Tim

I explain technology…

to people who don’t understand it…

people who think they do understand it…

people who despise it…

and people who worship it.

…that help people understand how technology might help their Organisation…

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I live here... According to Google Streetmaps

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In Technical Terms

•I’m a Webservice –•Sitting between the Technical Teams and the Business Teams, translating and relating between them..•With Plenty of SOAP and REST....

Turn that noise off, can’t you see I’m busy…

keep your silly ideas to yourself - I’ve got a job to do!

I live in Naas…

• NAAS– Network as a Service

• Used to be a Nice place to shop!

Can Cloud Computing transform

Government?

Not all Clouds are good!

Open Government?

“If people don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong”

“Jim Hacker” Open Government (I980)

Cloud 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 have we not done so well?

Taking theego out of

egovernment

It is unfortunate that the first 3 letters of eGovernment are…

Security is changing

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

unusable.

CIO Priorities…

Source: “ Gartner Scenario: The Current State and Future Directions of the IT Industry”

What is Cloud

• Vendors – Whatever you want / Need it to be…

• Its too Vague – • Talking about Cloud Security – when Cloud is

defined as everything you ever wished for…

Moving to the Cloud?

1. Leaving your apartment!

2. Moving your Data

BarriersPsychological Barriers

Platform Lock-In, Dependence, Governance

Security Compliance Costs

Application Architecture How do we design applications lo take advantage of the cloud? Grow and shnnk on-demand (scalability) Data affinity Portability Efficiency Performance Fault-tolerance and self-healing

Positives

Scale Cost

CAPEX OPEX

Advance Architecture Agility Cost - Clouds are renowned for being dirt cheap

for storage and burst-y processing. Elasticity - Growth and shrinkage

Negatives

Security & Privacy . Conflicts with international laws?

Where is my Data - Is it safe? For Whom and at what level? Regulatory compliance: Interoperability Lack of control Standardisation SLA ( Model T Ford)

Dark Cloud?

Letter from CSSO

Challenges

Organisational barriers (Silo mentality) Reliability (service outage) Definition of SLAs (Service Level Agreement) Service management, Monitoring Customisation / Integration with other

applications

If you are going to do it..

1. Understand the options and technologies2. Have a look at what you do..3. If its complex inside the firewall…Rationalize

infrastructure & applications4. leverage SOA for applications, appropriate

standards, governance5. Identify the costs per user - Compare costs with

internal hosting. 6. Start with Open Data… no arguments here….

…We have come a long way...

Understanding the Adoption Curve

Pilot for Success

Watch for

Identity

• Still not fixed in the Enterprise…• Or on the Internet..

Legal

• Cross Border data Transfer, etc

why is Crowd and Cloud sourcing important?

Crowd Source – Group Collaboration is more powerful than individual achievement

Typical Individual effort

many hours, one map

OpenStreetMap, 2012

200,000 contributors, one map

What is Cloud?

DON’T WORRY, TRUST US, WE HAVE IT ALL UNDER CONTROL

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What has Cloud ever done for us?

Apart from Scale, Speed, Agility, Low Cost, 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

Mashup

Why this is so compelling: It’s a disruptive technology

• Does it meet enterprise needs

• Easy to control• SLA / Support• Good enough for

startups and SME• “Cheap” compute• Pilot and trial…

Source: upcoming research, Cloud Computing: Not Ready For The Enterprise...Yet.

In how many years…

Cloud Computing Challenges

4) Cost 5) Security

2) Availability

3) Maintenance

End User

1) Scalability

Mind the Gap…

What How Where Who When Why

DataInformationKnowledge

Wisdom

BusinessProcessesAnalysis

Collaboration

Distributed Geography

UsersAgencies

Organisations

EventsTimes

PolicyStrategy

Databases Applications NetworksSecured

UserInterfaces

Event Processing

TraceableModels

Technology Stuff

Our Stuff

G Cloud – UK…• Distributed Cloud• Work like a Network• Everyone

• Can See• Can Play• Can Add Value (Within

Limits)• Shared Data Centres• App Store

• Issues – • Support• Code Base• Open Source Push

• My View – 3 Models• Car Boot Sale• Charity Shop• Department Store

Virtually Unlimited Storage

For storing data

Smart CitiesGartner: “networked sensors in everything we own will form a new Web (the Internet of Things). But it will only be of value if the ‘terabyte torrent’ of data it generates could be collected, analysed and interpreted”

… and .. just because we can….

Smart Local Government?

Confusion or Hype

• Public Cloud• Private Cloud• Hybrid Cloud• IAAS• PAAS• NAAS• SAAS• Etc AAS

Gcloud

Cloud

SAAS

Core

HEG

SharePoint

Mail

Planning

Fix Your Street

Open Data

PAAS

SDCC

Carlow

Wicklow

LGMA 1

LGMA 2

NAAS

IAAS

Cloud

Services

Private

Hybrid

Sharing!

BIG DATA?

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

DOE

DOT

Central Reporting Framework

Health

SFA

LA

LA

LALA LA LA LA LA

LA

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eReturns

Future use of Cloud!

Water Meters

• Read the Meter• View or Pay the Bill• Compare the Usage to the

Local or National Averages

• Look for areas of Savings

My Water Usage

• Smart Metering• Change my practise

Environment

• Advice and Tips on Money

• Energy• Recycling (locations of

Centres)• Refuse• Water• Energy Design

Bring Banks App

Parking

• Select County• Select Zone• Select Price willing to

pay?• Where is the Cheapest

Tourism

• History• Old Maps• Business Interests• Tourist Sites

Traffic

• Maps• Plan a Route• Feedback• GPS• Accidents• Salt• Weather alert

Roadworks

• Link to System – Online Road Works Control (OLRWC)

• License for Road Opening

• Cost of Reinstatement (Local Authority Usage)

• License for any Street usage.

Planning Applications

• View Applications• Get notified of Changes• Make Comments• Make a Submission• Notify Local Authority

of Issues?

Check the Register

• Map the Polling Stations• Where is the Nearest• Map the Route• Check the Register

Blue Flag Beaches

• Location• Nearest• Water Quality• History• Tides• Weather• Things to do…

Sports

• What is available now• How do I get there• What if I have to Cancel• Pay for it now

Parking

• Select County• Select Zone• Select Price willing to

pay?• Where is the Cheapest

Tourism

• History• Old Maps• Business Interests• Tourist Sites

Opportunity - Unfinished EstatesQR Codes for Public Participation

QR Codes

But all of these are static…..

But… would you cross the road based on 5 min old information

Where next - Augmented Reality

Bring together Big Data, Visualisation, GIS, GPS -

A problem that needs cloud to work…

What is Augmented Reality?

Water Meter

Water Meter

What do Clouds currently not do?

• Anything subject to compliancy– Includes PCI-compliant applications

• Apps that call back to performance sensitive services in your data centre

• Apps that require tight coupling between instances

• Sensitive Data• Large applications that don’t fit inside VMs

Is there anything they can’t do?

Cloud conclusions

• Government cannot ignore cloud• Public Cloud and Big Data• Public Cloud and Open Data• SLA needs to be more Open• Future is Cloudy