Improving Access to Information

to Engage Citizens

David O’Connor, County Manager, Fingal County Council

www.fingal.ie @fingalcoco

Fingal

Fingal

3rd largest

Youngest

Fast Growing

Rapid Population Growth

FINGAL DATA HUB

Malahide Castle, Fingal

http://www.fdb.ie/fingaldatahub

Sharing Data

Visualising Data

FINGAL OPEN DATA

Corballis, Donabate, Fingal

http://data.fingal.ie

Fingal Open Data

Objectives

• Transparency

• Participation

• Collaboration

• Economic Opportunities

170 datasets in 12 categories

DUBLINKED

Dublin Airport, Fingal

supporting data-driven innovation

in the Dublin regionwww.dublinked.ie

@dublinked

Objectives

• innovating, developing and trialling urban solutions

• engagement with companies and researchers

• portal for sharing public sector data

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Data release

245 Datasets

13 Organisations

6 dynamic data sets

Organisation No of Datasets

Dublin City 91

Fingal 54

Dun Laoghaire 49

South Dublin 16

Ordnance Survey Ireland

10

Government Departments

5

National Transport Authority

3

PRSA 1

Others 15

Top downloads

High interest

transport, planning, environment, mapping

Unexpected

fire brigade, school wardens, winter salting routes

Innovation networkEvents

• Planning• Technical workshop

• Spatial Data

• Visualisation

• Open Innovation

• Public Data

60-120 attending – high % entrepreneurs

Planned…

• Public transport

• Tourism

• Competition to

coincide with

presidency

New collaborations

INSPIRE

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

RE-USE OF DATA

Skerries, Fingal

Outputs

35 applications

• planning information

• journey planners • mobile parking app

• events, facilities

Visualisations

• property price map

• public transport• journey times

apps4fingalC O M P E T I T I O N

9th November, 2011 – 9th January, 2012

€11,500 in prizes

Community, Enterprise, Tourism, Student & Ideas Categories

Planning Applications

http://mypp.ie

Public Transport

Bring Banks

https://github.com/robmooney/BringBanks

Street Trees, Fingal

FixYourStreet

http://www.fixyourstreet.ie

Bathing Water Quality

http://www.bathingwater.ie

Development Plan Submissions

Development Plan Submissions

National Development Plan Viewer

Improving Access to Information

to Engage Citizens

data.fingal.ie @fingalopendata