Big Data – Smart Opportunities

Big Data – Smart Opportunities

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures GroupIBM Canada Headquarters

Markham Ontario. October 29, 2014.

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Overview

• Big Data 2.0

• Open Data – huge potential

• Smart Opportunities Managing cities Managing our health Managing our environment

• The road ahead … concluding thoughtsCover image credits: Harbor Research and ZDNet

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BIG Data 2.0

• Exponential Growth

• Analog to Digital

• Mobile everything

• The Cloud – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS ….

• Sensor World

• Big Ecosystem



Source: The Open Data Institute (UK) github.com/theodi/data-definitions

BIG Data 2.0 - Context


https://github.com/theodi/data-definitions




Open Data, Huge Potential

• Foundational component of Open Government

• Open context

• Open Data – OGP, G8 charter, local to global

“ … open if anyone is free to access, use, modify, and share it …”

City of Kitchener Open Government Framework

Open Data



Open Data, Huge Potential- Canadian Open Data Scene



Open Data, Huge Potential- Canadian Open Data Scene

Canadian MunicipalCurrent Count: 50+


John Tory, City of TorontoMay 8, 2014. Promise“Double the amount of open data from the City every year for ten years.”


Open Data, Huge Potential- Canadian Open Data SceneNFP Community

Events



Open Data, Huge Potential

Source: McKinsey Global Institute; Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information



Open Data, Huge Potential- Where are the opportunities?


Source: “Money for nothing – data for free. Hard facts about the economic power of Open Government Data”; 2013 Conference for eDemocracy and Open Government. By Gregor Eibl and Brigitte Lutz, Austria

2012 Survey by Open Knowledge Foundation on Business Views of Open Data Opportunities

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Open Data, Huge Potential- How?


Apps Contests, Hackathons, Entrepreneurs …

Service Reminders Transit Schedules

Facilities Finder Health Inspections

Street Bump - Boston School Zone - Vancouver


Smart Opportunity- Managing our Cities

• Cities are complex

• Data core to decision making

• Cities have BIG data

• Challenge = OpportunityJury Konga

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= Big + Open Data


Smart Opportunity- Managing our Cities

• Intelligent Communities/ Smart Cities

• Big Data opportunity for better operations

• BIG Challenges include Transportation, Efficient Infrastructure ….

• Big and small solutions needed –> private sector


“Intelligent Operations”

Sensor City


Smart Opportunity- Managing Public Health


the power of analytics – UK Case study


• Open Data - Health inspections

• Location & status with historical data

• Focus typically on restaurants … others possible including hotels, public restrooms, transit

Health Inspections – Mobile & Web apps

Smart Opportunity- Managing Public Health



Smart Opportunity- Managing our Environment

• Key issues via David Suzuki Foundation

• With our natural and built systems – everything is connected to everything

• Monitoring air, water and land = BIG data

• Fixing our environment is a new economy

Climate Change

Oceans

Wildlife and Habitat

FreshwaterHealth



Smart Opportunity- Managing our Environment


Provincial Government

MunicipalGovernment

Conservation Authorities Universities

NGO Researchers

FederalGovernment

BIG Environmental Data Ontario -> EarthBIG Environmental

Data Ontario -> Earth

… real time analytics & actions

… real time feeds

Citizens

Community Groups


Smart Opportunity- Starting the Smart

Source: Linda Bernardi http://www.lindabernardi.com/tag/ecosystem-of-disruption/ Jury Konga eGovFutures Innovation

http://www.lindabernardi.com/tag/ecosystem-of-disruption/

http://www.lindabernardi.com/tag/ecosystem-of-disruption/


Smart Opportunity- Where is Smart Needed

• Everywhere!

• Issues typically are local -> global

• Efficiencies & Effectiveness

• Towards Community & Personal Wellbeing

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Source: http://singularityu.org/impact/

http://singularityu.org/impact/




Closing thoughts … some trends

• Local2Global challenges increasing -> opportunity

• Big & Open Data are accelerating -> opportunity

• Government can’t do everything -> opportunity

• Smart solutions are being sought -> opportunity

• SME’s are innovative & agile -> BIG opportunity



Final thought …


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Thank you


Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

[email protected]@jkongawww.slideshare.net/jurykonga

AffiliationsCanadian Open Data Institute - CofounderOpen Knowledge Foundation – Canadian Ambassador

“Access by Design” AmbassadorDigital York Innovation

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