Presentation by Tim Willoughby at the Fujitsu Innovation Gathering 2013 conference at Croke Park in Dublin. Paper title - Data Data Everywhere but not a Byte to eat - The big issues are - lots of Data, lots of talk, not many solutions coming up, meet many people with the same issues. Local Government are working on Open Data, Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, Smart Cities, relying on Universities (DERI) for solutions to the bigger issues. A lot of incremental innovation is ongoing.

1. Data, Data, Everywhere and
not a Byte to Eat – The Data
Challenge in Smart Cities
Open Data / Smart Cities / Smart Data
Tim Willoughby
LGMA

2. Shared Service for Local Government

3. Smart Cities…
•Smart city is a journey – not a destination
•Ireland has an opportunity –
•Smart Country…
•What are / should the Local Authorities do…

4. Challenge with Data…
• When you view the world
through the lens of Local
Government - everything you
view relates to that…
• When you have a hammer –
everything becomes a nail…

5. Smart Country –
How do we know when we are there?
• A broadband infrastructure
• widely available and affordable to all
• Applications and services in areas
• such as Transport, safety, health, education and economy
• An interconnection between and across Agencies and
Communities
• through a Standardised Integrated service architecture
• A platform for innovation (data and information services)
• promotes the development of new applications and services

6. The World has changed…

7. Change is …
Technological Change
Open standards
Publish Data so it can be
consumed internally / externally
Information and Decision making
Cultural Change
Traditional Information Silos
Build Trust and reduce fear of
data Transparency
Crowd sourcing Principles
OutsideInfluences
InternalCommandandControl

8. Radical Change is happening – With or
Without the Owners / Shareholders

9. Change is coming
• New approach to the capture and use of data
• Building of teams across the sector that blurs county boundaries
• Centrally mandated architectural approach adopted
• Sourcing practices to achieve economies of scale
• Use procurement frameworks and maintain local enterprise.

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1Lots of data being created
How much being used
How much is capable of being used?

12. How Much Data do you create?

13. It knows more
about you than
your partner…
Source : Peter Cochrane

15. How to deal with Lots of data
• 7TB a Day for Twitter…
• 10,000 CD’s
• 5m Floppy
• 225GB during this talk…
• How do you Store that…
• HD Write Speed- 80mb/s…
• 24.3 Hrs to write 7TB….
• Government Thinking is not in this space.. Yet..

16. So far ICT has not fundamentally
changed government
• 1990s: lCT expected
to make government
more transparent, efficient and
user oriented
• 2005+: disillusion as
bureaucracy still in existence
• Is Open Data / smart city the
answer?
Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

17. Meanwhile in Local Government –
Shared Services….
• HR, Payroll, Superannuation
• Accounts Payable
• ICT BackOffice
• Procurement
• Irish Water
• NPPR
• POW

18. Priorities
Procurement
Payroll
Superannuation
Treasury
Accounts
Payable
eInvoice
Portal ICT BackofficeGIS
Social
Media
Open
Data
Public
Lighting
Paid
Parking
Library
Online
Services Big discussion

19. Keeping up.. Like playing tetris…
$12M
$74M
170%
34%
60M
Power and Space
Savings
Data Center
Equipment Savings
Gain in Storage Admin
Productivity
Increase in Energy
Efficiency
Pounds of CO2
Reduced
CAPEX
OPEX
Productivity Loss
Total Cost of
Ownership
Infrastructure
as a Service
Platform as a
Service
Desktop as a
Service
Enterprise
Applications
as a Service
Security
Systems
Storage
Backup
and
Recovery
Data
Center
Networks

20. Standards across Local Government…
(es)

21. Big Data in Local Government

22. My Council Dashboard
Current Street
Average
Your Year to
Date Amount
Current Waste
Trade Price/kilo

24. Semantic Web - The Journey to a Local Government
Portal
 Semantic Data
 Legislation
 Events Detail
 Management Details
 Councillor Details
 Publishing Regimes
 Services - Planning, Housing, etc
 GIS Maps
 …..
For Humans…
For Machines
Hyperlinks…
Semantic Links
RDF Data RDF Data

25. Local Government Portal
• Standards
• Service Catalogue – How can we present
data together if it isn’t the same service?
• Ontology – Produce Open Data (RDFa) for
Standard Entities
• People, Services, Events, Updates,
Locations, etc
• Reuse Information across the Sector
• FixYourStreet
• CheckTheRegister
• MyPlan
• Data
• CKAN / Data.Localgov.ie
• Gis Data / Inspire
• Service Catalogue
• Open Data
• CRM
• GIS
• Knowledge Management
• Content Management Systems
• Online Services

26. What is Data Interoperability?
The ability to exchange information between and
among public bodies
cross discipline, cross jurisdiction, cross sector.
Assumptions:
1. Exchanges would benefit one or more agencies
2. Philosophy of “need to know” is replaced by “responsibility
to provide”

27. Traffic
Weather /
Flooding
Outbreaks
Roads /
Rivers
Citizens
Local Government Issue?
Information does not stop at the County
Boundary
• We have almost as many man-made boundaries as we have data sets

28. What has Cloud ever done for us?
Apart from Scale, Speed, Agility, Low Cost,
Enterprise Adoption, Enterprise Mapping, Open Data, Standards,
Google, API’s, etc
Open Street Maps, Map Servers,
Telephony, Cloud Expansion etc

29. Drivers – Open Data

30. Open Data – Natural Progression…
• Standards…
• Ability to Link relevant data to make
even more
Linked
Data
• High or recognised Value (transparent)
• Cool, High Value Apps – from Local data
Public
Data
• Manage their own Data
• Implication for Health and Social Care
Citizens
First

31. Drivers – Personal Productivity

32. More and more connected things..

33. Challenges

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GOVERNMENT MUST CHANGE
ADAPT
THINK AND ACT
DIFFERENTLY

35. Citizen Expectation Changed?
Social
Media

36. Are we there yet?
• Services based on Aggregation of
data from Multiple Authorities
• Services based on data from
multiple sensors
• Apps based on making it easier to
play with our stuff..
• Imagine the Local Elections using
FOAF and Semantic Web to
exchange information

37. we’ll always have reasons to
say no!
Computer Says no..
We need to be
decisive
Yeah but, no but, Yeah but