1. City of Surrey
June 15, 2012

2. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Agenda
• Opportunity
• Challenge
• Building on a Successful Foundation
• Methodology & Approach
• Observations
• Recommendations
• Moving Forward
• Q&A
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3. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
There is an opportunity for Surrey to be a leader in
creating an integrated approach to supporting ECD
“Understanding and investing in early childhood
development is a pressing issue across North
America and around the globe. The positive long-
term impacts of up-front investments are well
documented, however this issue has yet to be fully
addressed by any jurisdiction.
Building on substantial existing investments, Surrey
has the opportunity to be a model for
implementing an integrated, data-driven approach to
supporting early childhood development.“
Stan Litow – IBM Vice President
Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs & President IBM International Foundation
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4. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
The Challenge that our team was asked to undertake was:
• Understand how the city and its partners can make
better investments in young children and their
families today to create healthier residents and a
more sustainable and prosperous community for
tomorrow
• Recommend approaches to better share
information and insights across service providers,
funders and supporters and to drive improved and
sustainable outcomes in children ages 0 to 5
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5. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Early Childhood Needs
Health & Nutrition
Physical Activity
Community and
Socialization
Child Care
Culture
Safety
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6. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
We were asked to use the EDI metric as a
measurement of vulnerabilities in young children
Early Development Instrument led by University of British Columbia
104 questions answered by kindergarten teachers
– Physical Health & Well-Being
– Social Competence
– Emotional Maturity
– Language & Cognitive Development
– Communication Skills & General Knowledge
Tracking by “neighborhoods” over time since 1999
– Ability to track trends in vulnerability
“Reducing inequality in child development will require us to bring
about enduring social change...”
- Clyde Hertzman, Director, Human Early Learning Partnership
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7. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Starting with the EDI as a common metric, our team
used the Smarter Cities Challenge approach and
methodology
Access Recommendations
Interviews Research
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8. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
We found that Surrey has an abundance of ECD services
spread among many stakeholders …
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9. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
The opportunity is to put children and families at the
centre….
City of
Surrey
Board School
of Trade Board
Awareness
of Services
Community Post
Agencies Budget Secondary
Rapid Growth
Constraints
Complexity Children
Ages 0-5
Provincial
Government & Family Libraries
Cultural Diversity
Dispersed Data
Federal Fraser
Government Overlap of Services Health
Fire
RCMP Department
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10. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Focus on Early Childhood Development
ECD
Leadership
Citizen
Access
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11. The benefits to the community are clear
Short Term Medium Term Long Term
Strengthen and Extend Implement and Scale Innovate and Optimize
Success for Every
Surrey ECD Child
Leadership
World Class
Early Childhood
Environment
ECD
Program
Framework
Data
Gathering &
Sharing
Analytics City Access
Driven Resource
Optimization &
Decision Engagement
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12. Short Term Medium Term Long Term
Strengthen and Extend Implement and Scale Innovate and Optimize
Prioritise and Promote Implement
Implement Pilot full scale ECD World Class
Integrated ECD
Agree on Projects programs Early
Surrey ECD
Leadership
Contract with
ECD
MCFD Childhood
Leadership Expand on ECD Environment
Structure Strategy &
Partnership
Create Management
System for City Run
Create ECD ECD programmes
Centre of
Excellence Implement
Explore linkages
ECD Program
Framework
Assess between EDI Customer
Partner and Open Data Enhance Relationship
Barriers & Social Media Increase Management
Broaden Analytics for availability
Needs
community Insights of Quality
involvement in Complement Childcare
Open Data EDI with Formalize
Extend Open
leading Neighbourhood
Data Catalogue
metrics for Level Planning
ECD Optimize
Create facilities joint
Continue &
Data Gathering &
multi-scale use agreements Reach “Hidden
Expand Support
for Open Data model for Populations”
Sharing
Create Predictive
Research, Analytics
Analytics Mobilize Revitalise
and volunteer Develop
Social Media
Reporting community Pathways to
Outreach
Team Services
Analytics Driven
Decision Making Resource Citizen Access &
Optimization Engagement
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13. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Building on a strong foundation…creating a world class
Early Childhood Environment
City of
Surrey
Board of School
Trade Board
Community Post
Agencies Secondary
Children
Ages 0-5 &
Provincial
Government
Family Libraries
Federal Fraser
Government Health
Fire
RCMP Department
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14. Smarter Cities Challenge: City of Surrey
Immediate Actions for Early Childhood Development (0-5)
Establish ECD Leadership Task Force
Evolve towards an ECD Centre of Excellence
Post
Commit toAgencies Sharing Strategy
a Data
Community
Secondary
Create Analytics Team
Provincial
Government
Maximize Shared Facilities & Volunteer Community
Intensify Social Media Outreach
Federal
Government
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15. Moving Forward …

16. 감사합니다
‫תודה‬
Спасибо Obrigado
शु या
‫ﺃأﺷﻛﺭرﻙك‬
Thank You !
Community Post
Agencies Secondary Asante
‫אַ דאַנק‬ Grazie
Provincial
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ขอขอบคุณคุณ
Government
Merci
谢谢您 Köszönöm
Federal
Gracias Government
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