supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Supporting data-driven innovation

Open Innovation Project 5th February 2013 Deirdre Ni Raghallaigh

The studio,

Dublin City Council

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

The Studio

Grow the Council’s capacity to innovate and

improve the quality of services

Servicing change

Changing services

•Started 2010

•Team of seven

•Multidisciplinary

•Test new ideas

•Prototyping new

ways of working

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

The Studio

•New forms of public

engagement

•Service Design

•Ideas development

and testing

+ ……………..

Dublinked

Designing alternative options with customers and

staff

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Engaging on the Streets

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Co-designing service options

– Using design

practices

– Working on

internal and

external services

– Quick prototyping

– Alternative to top

down

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Staff Innovators– Finding Roy

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Objectives of Dublinked

• to provide a portal for sharing data from public and private sources, kick-started by the local authorities

•to generate a structured mechanism for engaging with companies and research partners

• To use this as a platform to drive economic development –promoting Dublin as a world leader in developing and trialling urban solutions

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Public

AcademicCommercial

Research

ZoneLicensed data

Commercial data

Large data streams

Open

DataOpen

Data

Open

Data

Dublinked model

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Innovation Activities

Events to date

•Planning

•Technical workshop

•Spatial Data

•Visualising data

•Open Innovation

‘ (with OIP)

•Public Sector Data

•Public Transport

•Linked Data

Planned…

•Tourism

•Prototyping and testing

(with OIP)

•Health

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

• Why publishing on our websites is not enough

Making Our Data Open

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

Transportation

Agency

3

PRSA 1

Others 15

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Published

– Planning applications

– Fire Brigade call outs

– Licences

– Roads in charge

– Noise and pollution

– Parking

– Water telemetry

– Operational road in

charge

Next

– Real time passenger

data

– Community grants

– Library and archives

– Housing data

– Public art

– Events

– Live car park usage

Dublin City Council data so far

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Top downloads

High interesttransport, planning, environment, mapping, dynamic data

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

What THEY do with our data?

35 applications •planning information

•journey planners

•parking apps•Events, facilities

•heritage

Visualisations•property price map

•public transport

•journey times

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Getting buy-in and support

•Started with areas of known demand•Set targets per department•Look for explanations on why data cannot be published•Arrange for in-house people to meet users of the data.

Data Owner Authoriser Publisher Dublinked

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Excuses, excuses…

Expect to hear….

•“What about data

protection?”

•“Could this embarrass

us?”

•“We charge for this

data”

Sure who

would be

interested in

this?

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

They may have a point…

•Security

•Proprietary formats

•Contractual issues

WITH GREAT DATACOMES GREAT

RESPONSIBILITY

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Challenge for public bodies• Have we the skills (mapping, IT, dynamic data)

•Building new external relationships

•Maintaining momentum and responding to demands

•Authorisation in shared services

• Issues for contracts, procurement and outsourcing

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

Benefits to Dublin City Council

•Seen as first movers in this space• New Partnerships and networks

•Opportunities for standardisation on data practices

•Procurement

•Better access to our own data within the Council

supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

AHow Dublinked has changed me

Don’t be a perfectionist – Get it out

Ask for help and feedback

New relationships

New events

Emerging challenges