Slides from Pekka Koponen, Development Director, Forum Virium Helsinki; CitySDK. Presented at CSC 2016, session 1: OASC 101 – getting hands-on with API, data models

1. Getting hands-on with
API, data models and
platforms - panel
Connected Smart Cities
Conference, 20.1.2016
Pekka Koponen, @vikla
Forum Virium Helsinki

2. New digital service innovations in co-operation
between companies, public sector and the citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is part of City of Helsinki Group.
It is a not-for-profit limited company fully owned by City of
Helsinki.

3. City as an interface
Smart
City
International harmonization
Open data,
open API’s
City Service Development Kit
Open Helsinki
Co-creation
Interoperability

4. CitySDK
• For cities interested in boosting
digital service development with
uniform APIs and European wide
developer community
• For developers looking to
develop apps that work in various
European cities
Whatever is needed to make developers life
easier and development cycle faster
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5. © Forum Virium Helsinki
Use case: Service Map of the city and
feedback channel in a car navigator
16.2.2012 CitySDK kick-off in Brussels

6. CitySDK project
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3 domains: Participation, Mobility, Tourism

7. CitySDK existing endpoints
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8. Smart Participation
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9. Applications using Participation
API
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Korjaa Kaupunki (Fix the City):
http://korjaakaupunki.fi/
Pitäiskö fiksata (Should this be fixed):
metro.fi/fiksaus

10. Open311
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11. Kuva:Olli-ekkaOrpo
Co-creating with the
developer
community
• Open Data & Open API’s in focus
• Helsinki Loves Developers
• Apps4Finland and hackatons
• Code Fellows, Code for Europe
dev.hel.fi

12. CitySDK Cookbook
• To share experiences
from other cities
• To reduce friction when
getting started
• To boost uptake of the
APIs
http://www.citysdk.eu/citysdk-cookbook/
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http://www.6aika.fi
Close collaboration on the national level
Helsinki
VantaaEspooTurku
Tampere
Oulu
Finland
The Six City Strategy 2014-2020
(6Aika) boosting data-driven
business
 Opening up the most business
potential datasets
 Focus on open and
standardized APIs
 Ease the discovery and usage
(data portals, semantic data)
 Shared licenses
 Procurement know-how
 Cooperation with businesses
http://6aika.fi/in-english/

14. • API harmonization
with the 6 largest
cities in Finland
• Enabling new business
opportunities for
companies
• Common API strategy
for all 6 cities
• www.6aika.fi/en
6Aika, ”CitySDK” Work Package, APIs
and data models
Helsinki - Espoo - Vantaa
Tampere - Turku - Oulu

15. Top 4 APIs chosen to be harmonised first
• Resource management API (For reserving spaces, tools, services)
• Decisions API (Decisions and related documents from the city
decision management API)
• Issue Reporting API (Next version of Open311)
• Events API (Events & concerts happening in the city, Linked Events)
Chosen together after mapping the present status and future needs
of all 6 cities.
Companies and developers are consulted in the development process.
Company panel as a method, more than 100 members.

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17. CitySDK
MaaS ? LVM:n kuva
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10.12.2014www.lvm.fi 6
Ministry of Transport and Communications

18. bit.ly/mydata-yhteistoimintamalli
Infrastructure and Interoperability model for
personal data management

19. Brussels - Lyon - Helsinki
Building open IoT ecosystem
www.biotope-h2020.eu

20. Antwerpen - Copenhagen - Helsinki
www.select4cities.eu

21. Network of national smart city
networks
http://www.oascities.org/open-and-agile-smart-
cities/

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23. 20.1.2016
Pekka Koponen
Forum Virium Helsinki / Development Director
pekka.koponen@forumvirium.fi