1. Supporting data-driven innovation
Deirdre Ni Raghallaigh Open Innovation Project 5th February 2013
The studio,
Dublin City Council
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

2. The Studio
Grow the Council’s capacity to innovate and
improve the quality of services
•Started 2010
•Team of seven
•Multidisciplinary Changing
•Test new ideas services
•Prototyping new
Servicing
ways of working change
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

3. The Studio
Designing alternative options with customers and
staff
•New forms of public
engagement
•Service Design
•Ideas development
and testing
+ ……………..
Dublinked
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

4. Engaging on the Streets
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

5. 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

6. Staff Innovators– Finding Roy
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

7. 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

8. Dublinked model
Public
Open Open
Data Data
Research
Zone
Licensed data
Commercial data
Large data streams
Commercial Academic
Open
Data
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

9. Innovation Activities
Events to date Planned…
•Planning •Tourism
•Technical workshop •Prototyping and testing
•Spatial Data (with OIP)
•Visualising data •Health
•Open Innovation
‘ (with OIP)
•Public Sector Data
•Public Transport
•Linked Data
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

10. Making Our Data Open
• Why publishing on our
websites is not enough
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

11. Data release
245 Datasets Organisation No of Datasets
13 Organisations Dublin City 91
6 dynamic data sets Fingal 54
Dun Laoghaire 49
South Dublin 16
Ordnance Survey 10
Ireland
Government 5
Departments
National 3
Transportation
Agency
PRSA 1
Others 15
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

12. Dublin City Council data so far
Published Next
– Real time passenger
– Planning applications data
– Fire Brigade call outs – Community grants
– Licences – Library and archives
– Roads in charge – Housing data
– Noise and pollution – Public art
– Parking – Events
– Water telemetry – Live car park usage
– Operational road in
charge
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

13. Top downloads
High interest
transport, planning, environment, mapping, dynamic data
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

14. 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

15. 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.
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Data Owner Authoriser Publisher Dublinked
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

16. Excuses, excuses…
Expect to hear….
Sure who
would be •“What about data
interested in protection?”
this?
•“Could this embarrass
us?”
•“We charge for this
data”
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

17. They may have a point…
WITH GREAT DATA
COMES GREAT
RESPONSIBILITY
•Security
•Proprietary formats
•Contractual issues
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region

18. 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

19. 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

20. How Dublinked has changed me
A
Don’t be a perfectionist – Get it out
Ask for help and feedback
New relationships
New events
Emerging challenges
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region