The value of EU smart city projects

To push tech innovation and ecosystems in cities

Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy

Advisor@KatalinG

Open Data Policy Elevator >>>How?

Public sector staff recognize the importance of open data, but many are unsure how to use it. (Guardian Research, June 2013)

Striking facts

“While 72% of the interviewed civil servants understood that open data would be very important over the next three years, 78% did not know about specific government open data initiatives or what their benefits would be.

….and 66% did not understand their personal role in delivering the open data agenda.”

(Source: Open Data Policy Research, Guardian, June 2013)

Open Data. Why?

Open Data Controversial for Local Governments

Open Data chances are unrevealed for governments.

Because of ICT legacy focus, Vendor- and Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy

Who to choose? What to choose? Huge range of non proprietary and proprietary systems.

-ODP Open Data Partnership-Open Data Institute-Open Knowledge Foundation

Vocabularies Policy Makers

“What is the evidence that we should release datasets?”

“How many start ups have been created since we launched the first datasets”

“Can Open Data repair a market failure, inefficiency?”

Vendor Fusion

Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

Precarious Open Data Policy – Shared Data

Connected24 hours

Elements

-Awareness raising-Intern data exchange-Release new datasets-App procurement rationalization-Not focused on Commons,API’s

• Citizens

What else can help to stimulate local Open Data programs and

impact?

1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for Europe

In 2013 10 fellows worked in 7 cities throughout EU They created 8 apps that are now shared via Github and EuropeCommons.org

• September 17th• OKCon

Zuid - Moving Tourists

Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

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Programming workshop in Indische Buurt

•Held September 7th

•Aimed to expose citizens to web development

•Inspired by RailsGirls

The Future - Commons

2. EU Open Data project: Open Cities Repository & Hackathons

2. EU project: Open Cities

Nearly 350 datasets available

3. EU Data Project: City SDK (service development toolkit)

• Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders • Business Accelerators• Innovation Intermediaries >>• EU Projects• Open minded City Gov• Participatory citizens

Spin-off effects of the EU demonstrator projects (1) INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Open Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation Intermediaries

ICT tools,Funding, community

Open Data Evolution in Amsterdam due to EU projects

• In 2010 hackers, innovation labs and SME’s, web entrepreneurs requested the first datasets

• 28 datasets open in 2011• >350 datasets open in 2014• 2010 – 0 euro budget

• 2013 – 1,5 M euro budget –EU • 2014- lobby for 1 M eur local resources and many EU project

bids• From 2013 Open Data Program – by Amsterdam Economic

Board

• Awareness creation about the ‘treasures behind open data’

• Agenda setting in Open Data Local Governance (in Ams now budget allocation for hiring 4 full time employee)

• Bringing evidences , user cases on interoperable and non-proprietary smart open data solutions

(2) Spin off Effects: Local Policy Committed

• Fresh injections of most state of art ICT solutions, trends (GitHub repositories, Open Source visualization tools) into city halls

• Introducing the concept of “Commons”, “Standards”, “civic coders”, “hackers”, “tech grassroots”

• Diving into an exclusive Open Data Catalysts- Smart Cities network (Enoll, World Bank, OKF, ODI, Future Cities Catapult, NESTA)

General Spin-off effects of EU smart city projects (CIP)

Strong Open Innovation lobby needed:

-extern financing -entrepreneurship & freedom for

experimentations-create Open Data ecosystem in your city (label)-Capture chances on Horizon2020, EUROCITIES

partner finding

Best Practices Open Data 2011-2014

• 30 apps have been launched (face recognition by portrays)

• High educational impact• Positive PR for the museum• Reach of new younger

target group

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api -110.000 high resolution photo’s of the collection

Rijksmuseum API

• 3 start ups coaching• +300 datasets• Participation in Apps4EU• +50 civic apps

2013 – Less apps more business incubation

Community: Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

How to join the projects?

• http://codeforeurope.net/cities/

http://digitalsocial.eu/

How to join the projects?

>>http://connectedsmartcities.eu/strategic-initiatives/ >>>www.eurocites.eu

Take aways• Future Internet technologies are not so

obvious for city halls to experiment with• They need external push, networks

(ConnectedSmartCities, EUROCITIES etc)• EU projects (Horizon2020, FET)• And: the right ambassador’s locally

Thank you! Katalin Gallyas

gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl @katalinG