1. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
Challenges and
opportunities in Artificial
Intelligence (10’)
Xavier de Pedro & Isaac Aparicio
Municipal Data Office. Barcelona City Council
https://www.barcelona.cat/en/
July 18th, 2018

2. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01Background

3. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background

Barcelona City Council holds several
«Government Measures» related to a common
Digital Plan 2017-2020: A government measure for
open digitisation:
 GM 2016: Digital City Plan. Transition towards
Technological Sovereignty
 GM 2017:Free software & agile development of
public administration services
 GM 2018: Ethical & accountable data management:
Data Commons
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en

4. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background

GM 2016 – Barcelona Digital City Plan.
Transition towards Technological
Sovereignty
 Transversal plan aiming at guaranteeing a
coherent, standard technology policy within the
City Council
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/LE_MesuradeGovern_EN_9en.pdf

5. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background

GM 2017 - Free software & agile
development of public administration
services
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/LE_MesuradeGovern_EN_9en.pdf

6. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background
Execution
Forecast
of
Flagship
Projects
as of
GM 2017
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/LE_MesuradeGovern_EN_9en.pdf

7. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background

GM 2018 - Ethical & accountable data
management: Data Commons
 The deployment of the new data
governance
 Ethical and responsible data management
 City Data Infrastructure
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/2018_mesuradegovern_en.pdf

8. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background
Barcelona Data Commons
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/2018_mesuradegovern_en.pdf

9. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background
GM 2018: Emblematic Projects
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/2018_mesuradegovern_en.pdf

10. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
01 Background
GM 2018: Budget and schedule
Source: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/2018_mesuradegovern_en.pdf

11. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
02AI: Main areas of applicability

12. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
02 AI: Main areas of applicability
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Operational services for the whole City
Council
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Predictive models
– Fraud
– Mobility
– Gentrification
– ...

13. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
03AI: Challenges & Needs

14. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
03 AI: Challenges
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Engines & Tools to save money and workload, respecting privacy,
general data protection regulation (RGPD), ...
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Anticipating and modeling situations
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Feeding (properly) the Data Lake (CityOS)

15. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
03 AI: Needs
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Needs & Other requirements:
– Engagement between MDO and the rest of
the organization
– Achieve involvement from Staff
– Appropriate Training
– Time, while keeping Technological
Sovereignty

16. Municipal Data Office (MDO) – Barcelona City Council
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