Pauline Riordan

Dublin City Council

Smart City Challenge and the role of City as Facilitator

• 4 municipal authorities

• 28% of population of Ireland

• 1.3 million in Greater Dublin Area

• Economic driver

• Knowledge hub

• European and international gateway

Dublin Region

Economic crisis

Global recession, property collapse, banking sector collapse, austerity, EU/IMF bailout, new government……

Dublin – place of choice

“Dublin is rapidly becoming the multilingual internet capital of Europe

and Google is proud to be leading the charge on this”

David Martin, Director, Geo Operations for Google in Europe.

Ireland is the

second most

globalised

country in

the world

(Ernst &

Young, 2011)

Challenges as a global city

•Strong city leadership

•Vibrant city

•Creative people

•Support smart city initiatives

Economic Action Plan

Position Dublin City Region as a hub in the European knowledge economy

Collaborative city leadership

•Local Government

• Business

•Universities

•State

•Not for Profit

Internationally Open City Region …to people, ideas, innovation

The Studio aims to grow Dublin City Council’s capacity to innovate

Collaborative local government

City as facilitator

……….bring staff, citizens and partners together to

explore new ways of working for the council and the city

living laboratories for research and innovation

connected city where technology improves services and quality of life for the citizen

co create city by collaborating with business, research and citizens to meet human needs

SMART

PEOPLE

SMART

PLACES

Cities become….

……. smart, open, collaborative

SMARTCITY

Living laboratories for research and innovation

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………need greater coordination & alignment

Smart City Projects

Open

Data

Research

Enterprise

Digital

Transport

Energy

Water

•IBM Research•Intel

•Siemens

•Google

•GlenDimplex

•Gowex•Universities

•Agencies

•Local Authorities

……….help us make urban data scalable, robust and interpretable to others

Source: IBM Research

Smart city partners

•Easy access to public data

for citizens, SME or large

organisations

•Launched October 2011

•2nd Irish public Open Data

site

•Open PSI licence

Create level playing field

Open Data: data that can be freely used, reused and

redistributed…. published in a machine readable format

Platform to drive growth

PublicLocal Authorities lead data

release

AcademicNUIM sets standards and

manages network

CommercialIBM provides technology

platform

Research Data

Licensed dataCommercial data

Large data streams

Open

DataOpen

Data

Open

Data

Dubl:nked model

250 datasets

13 organisations

18 research datasets

6 dynamic data sets

Real time traffic, public transport &parking

Dynamic planning

information &

customer interactions

Dubl:nked in numbers

•Raw Operational Data

•Spatial mapping

•Research Data

•Sensor and Monitoring

No health or crime data

Public data

Companies using our data

JNOR, Get There, IBM Smarter Planet, Nokia, Hit the Road….

Demand driven

High interestTransport, planning, environment, mapping

UnexpectedFire brigade, school wardens, Fats, Oils & Grease, Electrical list

International recognition

•Seen as first movers

•Legal agreements in place

•New relationships with enterprise

•International reputation of Region

•Low cost €100,000 per annum

COUNTRIES & CITIES VIEWS TO DUBLINKED,

FOR PAST 30 DAYS

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Israel, Germany, Greece, Canada

Cities: Dublin, London, San Jose, Athens, Toronto, Prague, Stockholm, Madrid

Next steps…beyond Gov2Gov

Need to systemise and standardise across region, public and private

Challenges

•Culture change

•Working across silos

•Licensing

•Authorisation for outsourced

services

•Security & data protection

WITH GREAT DATACOMES GREAT

RESPONSIBILITY

Prototype city?

CommercialisationData suppliers

Test bed / procurement

Formal structure for

engaging

Clear prototyping process

We want to position the Dublin Region as a world leader in developing and trialling urban solutions

Source: NDRC Open data challenge, Plotspotz

SMART

PLACES

Connected City where technology improves quality of life for citizens

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Better city systems

Smart meter water consumption Transport and traffic management

Energy use in public buildings Real time passenger information

Source: IBM Research Source: IBM Research

Source: Codema Energy AgencySource: Dublin City Traffic Control Centre

Better decision making

Analysing human-city interactions:

•Integrate multiple data sources

•Merge information layers

•Forecast emergent behaviour

Neighborhood

1

Neighborhood 2

Building A

Source: IBM Research

Source: IBM Research

…….City can prioritise services, outreach and engagement

Focus on challenges

Identify common

challenges

Run competitions for new

solutions to city challenges

Source: NDRC Open data challenge

Source: NDRC Open data challenge

Source: Fingal Open Data

New digital services

ParkYA

CityWatch BETA

35 + Completed applications

• planning information

• journey planners• parking apps

• events

• facilities

Buildingeye.com Hittheroad.ie

Data visualisation

Source: Buildingeye.com

Data becomes information

Property Price map shows property sales

registered on an

interactive map

Census small area data

merged with deprivation

indicators show areas of

deprivation

Dublin City council’s Budget visualisation

Source: Dublin City Council

Namaland lets you see buildings owned by National

Asset Management Agency

Source: ConorMcGarrigleSource:www.dublinked.ie

SMARTPEOPLE

Co-create future city by collaborating with business, education and citizens

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Finding Roy

Retro-fitting of 369 gullies has

generated €250,000

Joint patent in Ireland and UK

Data may inspire, but it requires people to be innovative

Without the right context and understanding, data is just 1’s and 0’s

Connect people with problems to people with ideas

Linking people as well as data

New collaborationsDubmeets… Planning, Technical, Spatial, Visualisation, Open Innovation, Public Sector data, Public Transport ,Linked Data, Tourism……

…bring skills, sectors and people together to test ideas

Source: Fingal Open Data

Experiment quick and cheap

2. Just do it!

3. Learn from results

4.

Do it again

1. Explore Options

Agile CityPhotographer Joseph Carr

courtesy of Artist Michelle Browne

Photo: Michelle Hotchin @notanartist

Source: Beta Projects

Source: Beta Projects

Informal on street conversations

Engage with broad range of people

Public set the agenda

Engage with citizens

Meet human needs

Co-creating city

Photo: Michelle Hotchin @notanartist

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