(Open) Data Activities in the City of Vienna

Georg Sedlbauer

¬ Who we are¬ IT in Vienna¬ Open Data & Business?¬ Open Data & Vienna¬ Success stories made in Vienna

Who we are

¬ The Vienna Business Agency: support of the development of Vienna as a business location for 30 years

¬ First contact point for national and international companies: financial support, real estate and consulting

Who we are

¬ Objective: strengthen Viennese companies and their innovative force

¬ Vienna Business Agency: prioritizes and promotes focal strengths of the city: life sciences, urban technologies, creative industries and ICT

Who we are

IT in Vienna

IT in Vienna: Facts and figures¬ 5,750 companies¬ EUR 18.7 billion

turnover¬ ICT revenue is 4x

higher than in the tourism industry

¬ Almost 6% of

companies in Vienna are ICT companies

¬ One of the largest IT metropolis in EU

Open Data & Business?

Success based on Open DataThe Climate Corporation – Exit 1,1 billion US$

Zillow Group – more than 5 billion US$ Market Capitalization

Open Data in Vienna

¬ The City of Vienna has committed itself to the concept of Open Government Data

¬ 2011 Open Government Initiative ¬ First German-speaking City with a

dedicated Open Data portal¬ Almost 300 data sets

Open Data & Vienna

¬ One of the key topics ¬ Further commitment to OGD¬ Real time OGD as a goal¬ More context information data

(Thesauri)¬ Open Data research (tbd)

Digital Agenda & Open Data

Success stories made in Vienna

¬ real estate search engine

¬ matches desired features with the current offer on the market

Zoomsquare

¬ assess value and location of a property

Checkmyplace.com

¬ sports booking platform and search engine

Eversport

¬ information management

¬ linked data technologies

Semantic Web Company

¬ The Open Data Inside Badge distinguishes all innovative organizations, companies and individuals which work with open data.

Open Data Inside

Georg SedlbauerTechnology Services +43 1 4000 86733 sedlbauer@vba.at