Öresund Smart City Hub

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Øresund Smart City Hub & International examples of Open Data Platforms

Project Manager: Peter Bjørn Larsen, Öresundskomiteen Kick-off meeting for Big Data VIZ, Danish Design Center Copenhagen March 12, 2013

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The Global, European and national innovation agenda

Focus on: Ø Grand challenges

Ø Demand-driven innovation •  Role of the cities and data?

Ø  Test and demonstration •  Role of the cities and data?

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EU’s Smart City Philosophy

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BUT,…….

Ø How do we identify the demand (challenges)?

•  Smart city approach concrete challenges

Ø How do we ensure innovative procurement/tenders? •  Knowledge in municipalities new technologies

Ø How do we form innovation partnerships creating innovative solutions, regional growth and export opportunities?

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Aim of the project

Ø  Find the answers! – and test/create a model for a permanent platform where we:

•  Use the challenges related to sustainability goals in the municipalities as a driver for economic growth with focus on smart city solutions

•  Create a common cross-border platform for identifying opportunities for collaboration •  Data an important element

•  Make the region a leading smart city test-bed region for smart cities and ensure that the local competences are used in full

spurring innovation with public sector data

A Creative Dublin Alliance project Supported and Powered by IBM Technologies

What is Dublinked?

An initiative of Dublin City Council, DunLaoghaire-Rathdown, South Dublin, Fingal County Councils, and NUI Maynooth, as part of the Creative Dublin Alliance, Launched 2011 Strong political backing! An innovation network focussed on economic development using public-sector data A portal for the discovery of static and dynamic data about the Dublin Region, from public and private sources. A single-point-of-contact for new companies and users who wish to engage with the public sector for data requests and project proposals

What is Dublinked?

Federated DataStores, with a unified discovery engine All data to be directly machine accessible (RDF, URI) Usage supported by workshops and training events

Dublinked

SEARCH Independent DataStores

MNCs, SMEs Academia,

Public Sector, Citizens

Planning Data

Public sector data - A good place to start as the data is already available Committed person at the data provider is important Two types og data (Open vs. Restricted) In theory it should be easy, all 4 local authorities used the same system and captured similar data......... But, It took at least 6 months to actually manage to produce a common output format. Problems arose such as:

-  projections -  export formats (eg: CSV vs SHP vs KML) -  same content but different titles -  different software versions causing problems

Events & Activities

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Dublinked – Activities

Ø  Data Access and Requests

Ø  Project Proposals and Partner Search

Ø  Innovation Events and Thematic Workshops

Ø  DubMeets Series

Ø  Technical & Legal

Lessons Learnt

Data quality is critical and is difficult to achieve The process of releasing data from organisations is slower than one would expect – often for perfectly valid reasons The process of encouraging people to innovate with public-sector data is equally slow – an education process Database needs to be located in a neutral location Unexpectedly many different forms of public sector data can offer diverse opportunities for new businesses Large interest from different types of regional actors

Thank you!!

E-mail: pbl@oresundskomiteen.dk Tel: +45 31316844 Links to international examples: Dublin: http://www.dublinked.ie/ Helsinki: http://forumvirium.fi/en Amsterdam: http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/theme/label/open-data?lang=en London: http://data.london.gov.uk/