Empowering people with open data

Beyond Data Conference / Inspiring Lab

16th April 2015 Project Manager Tanja Lahti City of Helsinki, Urban Facts

• Open data initiative in Helsinki Region • Empowering people with open data in Helsinki • Next steps in open data in Helsinki • Questions & discussion

Content of this Inspiring Lab

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Open data initiative in Helsinki Region

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/SkyFoto

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Helsinki Region Infoshare – www.hri.fi

Datajournalism

Research

Transparency Business

Open data

Participation

Art

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Helsinki Strategy Programme 2013-2016

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Empowering people with open data in Helsinki

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

What´s going on in

our city?

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

Decisions Open API New user interfaces

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http://dev.hel.fi/paatokset

Ahjo Explorer

Decisions

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Give or analyse

feedback

Nearhood…

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Decisions, feedback

etc.

Where does our

money go?

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Mika Lappalainen

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Procurements

Systems that enable our public services?

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

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List of the IT systems in use

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Over 800 IT-systems

Content and

purpose of systems

How to find the public services?

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

Public service points with details

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Beta versio

http://dev.hel.fi/servicemap/

Where, when and how to go, feedback

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Next steps in open data in Helsinki

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Jouko Vatanen

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

Which data to open up and how?

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

Which data is needed in real life?

Cities of Helsinki

Region (members of

HRI) have listed some

of the public data sets

that could be worth of

opening up

The opening process

of HRI is publicly

available on web site

Please, request

new data to open up!

http://www.hri.fi/fi/hri-projekti/tyon-alla/

Provide data through standardized APIs

Case CitySDK

“service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities

http://www.citysdk.eu/

Participation Mobility Tourism

8 Cities in Europe: • Amsterdam • Barcelona • Helsinki • Istanbul • Lamia • Lisbon • Manchester • Rome

Enhance search and useability of data

Match? Semantics

Useable? Formats

Mash-up? Interoperability

Risks? Privacy, reliability

Let´s open up our cities together!

In Finland:

e.g. 6Aika – The Six City Strategy 2014-2020 Between the six largest cities in Finland

Developing city services with open data and interfaces,

open innovation platforms and open participation.

On European level:

e.g. Horizon 2020

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http://www.6aika.fi

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en

The City of Helsinki Media Bank/Seppo Laakso

How to attract and interact?

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Competitions

Trainings

Hackathons

Code Fellows

Identify and solve the real

challenges

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http://dev.hel.fi

Open Data Open Office – meet and

chat!

Smart city

consists of empowered people – and empowering requires open data and interaction.

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Helsinki Region Infoshare (HRI)

www.hri.fi | hri@hel.fi | @HRInfoshare

Project Manager Tanja Lahti

tanja.lahti@hel.fi

+358 40 5532425

THANK YOU!

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• Experiences and lessons learned in your city? • Next steps in your city? • Which data to open up and how? • How to enhance use of open data? • How to empower and interact with citizens?

Questions, comments, ideas?

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