Prepared by Anne-Laure Desjardins from ENSAE ParisTechFor PRIME Paris Region International Mission Enterprise

June 2014

Open data & the cityA democratisation of urban data

IntroductionParis – San Francisco: sister cities for a collaboration on the digital economy and smart cities

In March 2013, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the two mayors, Bertrand Delanoë and Edwin M. Lee, to support research programs on these subjects, serve as experimental sites and share their data.

These cities chose to support Inria (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) and CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, University of California) to carry out joint research on smart cities.

Joint project « Democratizing Urban Data for Healthy Cities »

Following this agreement, PRIME (the Paris Region International Mission Enterprise, based in San Francisco) has become a partner of Inria and CITRIS, to support their collaborative programs on smart cities.

This benchmark on « Open Data & the city: a democratization of urban data » is a non-exhaustive survey on innovative companies, initiatives and ideas covering California and the Paris Region with a focus on open data for noise, air pollution and transportation applications.

Introduction

About open data

What is open data ? “machine-readable information, particularly government data, that is made available to others” (McKinsey Global Institute)

What are the benefits? Government transparency Social and economic impact State modernization lever

What is at stake? Data quality: standard have still to be set Data security: how to protect data privacy and intellectual property? Governments’ involvement Citizens’ involvement

About open dataAn economic opportunity with more than $3 trillions a year in additionnal

value could be generated in 7 sectors as a result of open data

*Includes US values onlySource: McKinsey Global institute Analysis, Oct 2013 Free access to full report here

Open data is at the heart of democratizing urban data

Various sources- Automatically generated data- proactively sourced data- crowdsourced data Data collection is democratized

Innovative products are developed for companies and governments to release their data publicly. It makes it easy for citizens to access and understand the data.Data has value that companies

can leverage to provide economic opportunities & positive fallout for citizens

A win-win connection- Citizens benefit from these platforms- It becomes a new source of data for cities

Ecosystem in California (and the US)

Big companies Startups

Non profits Universities

Government & Citizens

Ecosystem in the Paris Region

Big companiesStartups

Non profitsUniversities& research labs

Government

Citizens

How Open Data is changing the game

2011Obama administration stepped into open dataFrench government created Etalab, a public agency in charge of openingpublic data

Economic fallouts Development of companies in data publishing New startups leveraging open data With public datasets added to their solution, some SMEs boomed

Disruption in lifestyle & consumption habits Ex: Uber, that makes mobile apps connecting drivers and passengers thanks to geolocalization data, is present 70 cities around the world and could worth $17 billions. Uber also reaches other sectors, by being for example already involved in delivery services.

California | Paris Region

Data publishingData collection

Leveraging data for the cityCivic platforms

An overview of quoted companies

1. Data collection1.1. By monitoring transportation and public spaces

1.2. By sensoring air and noise pollution

1.1. By monitoring transportation and public spaces

Waze USA - Mountain View

2008 By simply driving around with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community. You can also actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the road, and get road alerts on your route too.

Ambientic France 2011 Support and optimize communication among individuals collaborating on a domain-specific task. With "Boîte à Sardines", passengers provide crowdedness information collaboratively to help you choose the best time and train for your journey.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

UK (origin) USAFrance

2004 OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Begins to cartography indoors.

Birdi USA – San Francisco

2013 Smart air monitor. Birdi tracks air quality, fire and carbon monoxide fumes to keep you healthy and safe, and informs you through an app.

Azimut monitoring France - Grenoble

Developped monitoring tools, Greenbee®, Ladybird® (sensoring noise, pollution, meteo,..) that are autonomous (solar energy) and communicating. "Care City" is their Smart city programm: services for Nice, Narbonne, Grenoble, Annemasse, Genève, Bruxelles ; noise observatories for Paris, Acoucité, Grand Lyon, Nice.

M2OCity (Veolia and Orange collaboration)

France - Paris 2010 The m2o cityjoint-venture offers as of today a complete turnkey service based on an ultralow consumption radio network to local authorities, through their municipal agencies or agents for water services. In addition to information from water meters, this network will be able to collect data from environmental sensors (to combat noise or pollution for instance).

Withings France - Paris 2009 Connected devices to monitor health. Their Smart Body Analyzer has a sensor to monitor air quality (through temperature and carbon dioxide measuring)

1.2. By sensoring air and noise pollution

2. Solutions for data publishing

How to go from open data to valuable data?

2. Solutions for data publishing

Junar USA – Palo Alto 2010 Cloud-based Open Data Platform that is the fastest, easiest, and most affordable way to transform government data into resources that your citizens can use.

Accela USA - San Ramon Civicdata.com simplifies how open data is published and managed, provides standard, cross-jurisdictional data in one place.

CloudMade USA - Menlo Park 2007 CloudMade's platform makes geospatial data from hundreds of different sources accessible for different devices and automotive manufacturers, developers and enterprises.

OpenGov USA - Mountain View

2012 The OpenGov platform provides instant access to the budget and visualizes current and historic revenue and expenses; Government officials and citizens use the platform to understand, analyze, and share the data.

Urban Mapping USA – San Francisco

2004 Collection, maintenance and distribution of high-value data. Mapfluence, their hosted geoservices platform, allows developers to tap into their massive catalog of data on-demand.

2. Solutions for data publishing

Opendatasoft France – Paris 2011 Hosted software solution dedicated to Open Data publishers.

Easter-Eggs France – Paris 1997 Developped Données-libres.fr and Metanol, an Open Data portal for regions, cities (to transfer national data).

Data Publica France – Paris 2011 It develops and maintains the most complete and the richest directectory of French data, it operates a DataStore for French data and performs data hunting on demand (dashboard of territories).

3. Leveraging data for the city

3.1. Urban services leveraging urban data

3.2. Big Data solutions for cities

3.3. Interactive mapping and data visualization

3. 1. Urban services leveraging open data

Real EstateTrulia USA – San

Francisco2005 Trulia gives home buyers, sellers, owners and renters the inside scoop on

properties, places and real estate professionals. We have unique info on the areas people want to live that can’t be found anywhere else: users can learn about agents, neighborhoods, schools, crime and even ask the local community questions.

Kelquartier France – Paris 2010 Kel Quartier is a free Internet website that gives you the information you need to find the neighborhood that is right for you (400 public sources - 42,000 neighborhoods and villages covering France)

MeilleursAgents France – Paris 2008 MeilleursAgents.com provides an outstanding heatmap of Paris real estate prices and allows sellers to safely price their property and hire the best brokers to execute the sale.

Home'n'go France – Paris 2011 We then help you get information on your potential neighborhood such as the average square meter price, where are the closest shops around, how far you'd be from your key locations (job, school, etc.).

Ecology1-800-recycling.com, ERI's subsidiary

USA – Fresno 1-800-RECYCLING.com features a comprehensive recycling location database that gives the user the ability to easily assemble a recycling to-do list.

3. 1. Urban services leveraging open data

TansportationEmbark USA - SF bay

areaThey make free, fast, and simple mobile apps for mass transit riders worldwide.

Recargo USA – Los Angeles

2010 Recargo, Inc., provides software and services for plug-in electric vehicle drivers and industry, incuding the #1 EV charging station finder app.

Nextbus USA – San Francisco

1997 NextBus is dedicated to providing cost effective, high quality, reliable, real-time transportation information to the passengers and managers of public transit.

Arrive Labs USA – San Francisco

2011 Software solutions for urban transit challenge.

TeleNav USA – Sunnyvale 1999 Their personalized navigation services help people make faster and smarter daily decisions about where to go, when to leave, how to get there, and what to do when they arrive. They have approximately 34 million subscribers worldwide.

Uber USA – San Francisco

2009 Uber connects riders to drivers through apps to make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers.

Sharette France – Paris 2013 A mobile app/webite that combines carpooling and the public transport network to compute shorter itineraries.

EntertainmentMom maps (New Media Parents)

USA – San Francisco

2009 Mom Maps helps you find kid friendly locations on the go! Search an extensive list of parks, playgrounds, restaurants, museums and indoor play areas.

Yelp USA – San Francisco

2004 Help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and Mecanics. Yelp had an average of approximately 132 million monthly unique visitors in Q1 2014.

Urban Pulse France – Paris (USA – NY)

2012 Urban Pulse is a mobile application that brings together everything you need for a great time out: deals and ideas for places to go, tools for finding and meeting up with friends, and a journey planner offering all the possible ways to get there. An initiative from Veolia Transdev.

GovernanceBuilding Eye USA – San

Francisco2011 Buildingeye takes local government data on building permits in different

locations and visualizes this information on its map.

Govini USA – San Francisco

Govini takes big data generated by numerous federal, state, and local agencies and transforms it into analytics, benchmarks, trends, and custom research.

Politify USA - SF bay area

2011 Politify is a platform that provides Americans with data-backed financial projections of political scenarios (mapping).

AccessibilityKernix France - Paris With the support of CRT Ile-de-France (promoter of Paris Region for

tourism), Handistrict presents public spaces according to their accessibility for disabled persons (all kind of handicaps).

3. 1. Urban services leveraging open data

Synthicity USA - Berkeley 2012 Visualization and analysis for urban development professionals. Coordinates UrbanSim, an open source urban simulation system to support metropolitan land use, transportation, and environmental planning.

Predpol USA – San Francisco

2012 Based on models for predicting aftershocks from earthquakes, PredPol’s technology forecasts highest risk times and places for future crimes.

The Omega Group

USA - San Diego 1992 Solutions for law enforcement, public safety and education agencies. Industry-leading developer of innovative GIS software designed to assist public agencies with their daily data driven decisions. (cf website CrimeMapping)

IBM100 USA Predictive Crime Fighting. IBM has been working closely with the law enforcement community to help departments collect, manage and deploy the vast amount of information at their disposal, in such a way that it can be accessed and used at moment’s notice.

Urban Engines USA – Los Altos 2012 Urban Engines reduces congestion by combining insights and incentives to ease the time and stress of daily commutes. With patent-pending technology grounded in spatial analytics and behavioral economics theory, Urban Engines powers the essential systems -- like transportation -- at the heart of every city.

3. 2. Big data solutions for cities

Spallian France - Paris 1998 European leader in geodata management. Smart city solutions, crime mapping.

Snips France - Paris 2012 Technology that predicts population and infrastructure behavior, providing actionable insights to city operators and impactful products to citizens. Tranquilien: app developed by Snips and SNCF to predict crowdedness in trains (open data & crowdsourcing)

Dataiku France - Paris 2012 Integrated and ready-to-use platform to unlock the value of Data. Use Big Data to provide solution for cities. (ex: parking finding)

Canal TP (Keolis subsidiary)

France - Paris 2001 Canal TP provides information services, including journey planning services, for public transport companies and authorities.

CityZenith USA – Menlo Park

2009 Cityzenith helps cities convert their massive amounts of data into monetizable assets, consolidating public (Open Data), commercial (M2M), and citizen (Social Media) data sources to provide unprecedented access to comprehensive information through the company’s 5D SMART City™ platform.

3. 2. Big data solutions for cities

Esri USA - Redlands 1969 Esri pursues mapping and spatial analysis for understanding our world with visionary products and services that define the science of GIS.

Stamen USA – San Francisco

2011 Interactive mapping and live data visualization. Created CrimeSpotting. Opensource projects.

GIS Planning USA – San Francisco

1998 GIS Planning is the world leader in online economic development solutions. Over 13,000 U.S. cities in 43 states are served by GIS Planning’s Geographic Information System (GIS) Software, which provides real estate, demographic, and industry data.

Ubimix France - Paris 2010Ubimix provides a software for creating zoomable user interfaces – indoor / outdoor maps, images, timelines – allowing to dive into information progressively.

3. 3 Interactive mapping and data visualization

IBM Many Eyes USA Data visualization for everybody. IBM Many Eyes, a web community that connects visualization experts, practitioners, academics and enthusiasts, offers this technology and expertise, along with ways to share and learn from others.

Google Public Data Explorer

USA - Mountain View

Data visualization for everybody. Publish open data and allow users to upload and visualize their own data sets.

Tableau software USA – Seattle 2003 Big public company that makes it easy for people to rapidly transform data into smart business analytics: work with huge data live or in-memory, mash up data sources, visualize data in multiple ways, build dashboards, create interactive data applications

Dataveyes France – Paris 2010 We help people understand, operate and communicate their data. We translate data into experiences, to share narratives, support new uses, and make sense of a world increasingly shaped by algorithms.

3. 3 Interactive mapping and data visualization

4. Platforms connecting citizens and governments

4.1. Reporting platforms

4.2. Engaging platforms

4.1. Reporting platforms

Citysourced USA – Los Angeles

2006 CitySourced is a real time, intuitive mobile civic engagement platform that lets residents identify civic issues (public safety, quality of life, environmental issues, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution.

Public stuff USA – New York 2009 Residents can submit, track and view nearby service requests online, through the smartphone app, via SMS or traditional phone calls. Local governments leverage our backend platform to automatically route, assign tasks, and update residents on status. Used in Palo Alto, CA for example.

DansMaRue France - Paris 2013 Mobile app and website for citizens to report anomalies. Launched by Ville de Paris.

La Netscouade France – Paris 2007 They created Beecitiz, a participative map where citizens can report anomalies for the city hall (via internet and smartphones).

4.2. Civic Engagement platforms

Civinomics USA - Santa Cruz 2011 Civinomics is a public policy hosting platform. You can use it to hold a vote or fundraise for new policies or programs in your community.

Neighborland USA – SF bay area 2010 Neighborland is a platform for neighbors to take action on local issues. People know what their neighborhood needs, and businesses and placemakers need this intelligence from the street.

Granicus USA – San Francisco

1999 Granicus, Inc. is the leading government cloud computing provider for transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation. It offers the first cloud platform and product suites designed specifically to help government agencies establish meaningful connections with citizens.

MobilePD USA - Santa Cruz 2010 MobilePD is the leader in law enforcement mobile application development. Promote Transparency and engage your community like never before. Interactive crime maps.

Textizen USA - Philadelphia 2013 They open civic dialogue to new participants with a powerful mix of offline outreach and online engagement. Textizen is a platform for collecting community feedback via text message. Used in Oakland.

Accela USA - San Ramon From streamlining basic agency functions like land and asset management and licensing to the outer edges of engagement like virtual town halls and mobile citizen reporting tools, the Accela Civic Platform bridges the gap between your agency and your community.

Appallicious USA – San Francisco

2010 The Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD) uses open data to assess community resiliency and utilize open data to promote economic recovery in the wake of a disaster. DAAD enables citizens, businesses and governments to meet to share resources, request assistance and better understand the potential and timeline for recovery on a localized basis all in one application.

About PRIME & French Tech Hub

PRIME is a transatlantic innovation platform promoting the Paris region as a center of innovation and engaging in activities to encourage and incentivize American companies and organizations to invest in the Paris region. PRIME is a subsidiary of the Paris Region Economic Development Agency.

French Tech Hub serves as the U.S. Hub for entrepreneurial and innovative French companies. We provide custom-tailored services to help our clients strategize, launch, expand, and achieve their business potential.

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