Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live, work and travel Presented by: Rick Robinson, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology, Amey

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Big data, open data and telepathy:
building better places to live, work and travel
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Smart Data & Technology

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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
The BarnettGraph of Doom
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet

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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
UK social mobility is low, and it kills people early
http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/

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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
2050: 3 billion more citizens competing for jobs & resources
The United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/

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Why do we need smart cities (and towns, villages and infrastructure …)?
Threats to resources from climate change
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/asda-food-
waste-risk-climate-change
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaan
dthepacific/kiribati/9127576/Entire-nation-of-Kiribati-to-
be-relocated-over-rising-sea-level-threat.html

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The Billion Prices Project: http://bpp.mit.edu/

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Trash Track: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

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Smart aspirations: regions, cities, communities

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Disruptive Innovation
• Founded in 1919
• Over 680,000 rooms in 91 countries
• Over 310,000 employees and franchise
employees
• Market capitalisation $29.64B
1997 2003 2006 2007
• Founded in 2008
• Over 800,000 rooms in 192 countries
• 600 employees (2013)
• Estimated value $13B (2014)

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Digital disrupts physical

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Disruptive innovation

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Smart Urban Highways

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Amey and Changify

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Social and demographic Economic
Weather
Geospatial and infrastructure
Sensors
Operational and assets
Crowdsourced
Joint works

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The importance of a good diet
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?language=en

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Smart Hack Birmingham 2012

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Birmingham Smart City Alliance
http://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/rugby-trytracker/10630406/ibm-big-data-analytics-dublin.html
The “unusual suspects”

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http://harbornefoodschool.co.uk/

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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-06-04/new-world-order

27. Images and concept from Kelvin Campbell’s “Smart Urbanism” movement:
http://www.massivesmall.com/
Massive / Small: what are the characteristics of cities that give rise
to “massive” amounts of “small-scale” innovation?
Smart urbanism

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Smart digital urbanism
• Accessible and adaptable
• A digital environmentof Open Data, Open Architectures, Open APIs,
Open Standards, Cloud Computing and Open Source
• Engaging
• Informed engagement enriched by Open Data and Social Media
• Top down and bottom up:
• Planning frameworks, procurementpolicies, and soft infrastructures
that incentivise and enable
• Entrepreneurial and enterprising:
• Enabling more people to make a better life for themselves
http://theurbantechnologist.com/2015/02/01/smart-digital-urbanism-creating-the-
conditions-for-equitably-distributed-opportunity-in-the-digital-age/

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“Private investmentshapes cities, but social ideas (and laws) shape privateinvestment. First comes the
image of what we want, then the machineryis adapted to turn out that image. The financial machinery has
been adjusted to create anti-city imagesbecause, and only because, we as a society thought this would be
good for us. If and when we think that lively, diversified city, capable of continual, close-grained
improvement and change, is desirable, then we will adjust the financialmachineryto get that.”
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities
http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/Smart-Cities-Standards-and-Publication/PD-8101-smart-cities-planning-guidelines/

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The exponential advance of technology
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Thankyou
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Smart Data & Technology