I-Cities 2016 | My Best District

---MY BEST DISTRICT---a tool for computing the quality of life exploiting Open Data

@stefano.franco ALUMNI MATHEMATICA@pierpaolo.basile UNIBA

@giuseppe.santoro APULIASOFT

29-30 SeptemberBenevento, Italy

Context15 main organizers

3workshops (9 talks)

60partecipants

Problem

What is the quality of life in my district?

The Tool www.mybestdistrict.xyz

Open Data

52 datasets

9 groups

0 linked data

The Algorithm

Technology

Database Back-End Front-End

Goal Scored

1. The citizen has a concrete perception of the quality of life in her/his district

2. The governance understand how to improve the quality of life and in which districts to focus improvement actions

Future Steps1. Improve the tool by correcting datasets’ issues2. Send a report to the “Comune di Bari” about Open Data

critical issues3. Extend the tool to support other cities4. Improve the tool by studying new methods based on AI

Main Outcomes

1. Results available as Open Source

2. Realize socially useful and ethically correct researchthrough the Open Innovation

Conclusions1. The releasing of Open Data by PA can produce innovative

tools2. Data standardization facilitates the fruition3. A positive example of hackathon’s potentialities4. Contamination of skills (no-profit association, academic and

enterprise)

Give us Open Data and we will create innovation.We are makers, innovators, pirates, researchers, hackers, and scientists.With a superhero attitude

Thank youstefano@alumnimathematica.org

www.alumnimathematica.org www.mybestdistrict.xyz