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.
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
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.
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
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
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”
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
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
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