Presentation at Information Access in Smart Cities workshop in Amsterdam, 13/04/2014 - on how smart citizens should be the focus in smart cities, and what CitySDK does to make it possible. The presentation starts with some design rules for smarter cities, then introduces Waag Society, and quickly moves on to the Amsterdam Case for Open Data. Then the shortcomings of this approach are described, after which it introduces the City Service Development Kit - a set of bottom up, harmonized API's for software development that scales across cities and countries. Some examples are presented, and it gets back to the central thesis: design smart cities with the people, not for or against them.

1. Smart Cities,
Smart Citizens and
the case for CitySDK.
Frank Kresin
Research Director
@kresin / frank@waag.org

5. Design Rules for Smarter Cities
• Your citizens know more than you.
• Prototype early and fast, engage the stakeholders, iterate quickly and be
prepared to start all over.
• Embrace self-organisation and civic initiative, but help to make the results
sustainable and scalable.
• Know what you are talking about in the face of technology. Never rely on
consultants that will sell you more consultancy, not solutions.
• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and actively preach
self-governance.
• Favour loosely coupled, smaller systems over monoliths and mastodons, and
use peer-defined standards to glue together the parts. Small systems tend to fail
sometimes; large systems fail for sure.
• To raise and deserve trust, build systems based on data reciprocity and
transparency.
• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to the public
domain and thereby strengthening its capacity to act and learn.
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

6. Waag Society

7. Meaningful Encounters

8. Principles:
Best producer is the user
(S)he can learn to make
anything
Sharing is key to innovation
Making is crucial to
understand & act in the
world

9. www.appsordemocracy.org

14. Knowledge institutes
Developer hubs
Accelerators
Innovation labs

15. The Amsterdam Case for Open Data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonduran/84474236

17. SOLA

20. Apps for Europe

21. THIS DOES NOT SCALE

22. City SDK
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Open, interoperable service
interfaces.
Processes, guidelines and usability
standards.
Sharing, re-using and transferring city
solutions across cities.
Not inventing from the scratch, but
mapping, using & developing global best
practices

23. What is SDK?
SDK=ServiceDevelopmentKit
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24. Problem: Lack of Interoperability
Formats and APIs vary
between cities
•‘Open’ interfaces to existing systems are not uniform
even within cities
•Documentation is lacking as well
Scaling an app from one
city to another
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25. Solution: CityAPIs
CityAPIs
Open uniform interfaces
Scaling an app from one
city to another
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26. CitySDK Ecosystem
CitySDK Ecosystem
Cities’ prior platforms, services, interfaces, open data
Cities’ prior platforms, services, interfaces, open data
Unified Open City Interfaces through Pilots
asCitySDKcomponents
Unified Open City Interfaces through Pilots
asCitySDKcomponents
Engaged SME Developers’ new Services
exploitingtheCitySDKecosystem,oropensourcepilotapps
Engaged SME Developers’ new Services
exploitingtheCitySDKecosystem,oropensourcepilotapps
App StoresApp StoresPublic delivery
Infrastructures
Public delivery
Infrastructures
Project Pilots
Demonstrators,opensourceCitySDKcomponents

27. CitySDK coverage
The Lead Pilots are
replicated in other
CitySDK Partner cities
312012 Preparation stage2012 Preparation stage
01/2013 Lead
Pilots
01/2013 Lead
Pilots
06/2013
Replication
06/2013
Replication

28. 1. Smart Participation

29. Applications using
Participation API
Korjaa Kaupunki (Fix the
City): http://korjaakaupunki.fi/
Pitäiskö fiksata (Should this
be fixed): metro.fi/fiksaus

30. 2. Tourism
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31. Applications using Tourism API
35Spot in Lisbon: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinlis&hl=en
Spot in Helsinki: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinhki&hl=en
Lamia Tour Guide:
https://play.google.com/st
ore/apps/details?
id=com.smarts.tourguide
POIs and Events in Amsterdam:
http://citysdk.dmci.hva.nl/map/

32. 3. Smart Mobility

33. Smart Mobility
 services on real-time traffic
data from multiple sources
 Results: open source travel
assistant application,
several harmonized cities’
backend systems,
cluster of SME developers
working on value-added
services for Smart Mobility
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34. Multimodal World

35. Open Trip Planner

36. CitySDK Linked Data
• Collects
• Annotates
• Links
• Distributes

41. mobility

42. Designed for:
• Developers
• (Local) governments
• Companies
• Researchers
• Journalists
• Citizens

43. Architecture
App(lications)
Intelligence
CitySDK LD API
Databases
City Data

44. Datasources (selection)
5 ★ LOD - 60+ data sets - 60+ mln. data points
Amsterdam Netherlands Helsinki Istanbul Lamia Manchester Rome
Open
Street Map
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PT ● ● ● ● ● ● ( )●
RT verkeer ● ● ( )●
Statistieken ● ●
Kadaster ● ● ( )●
Parkeren ● ●
Opladen ● ●
POI ● ● ● ● ( )● ● ●

45. http://citysdk.waag.org/apihttp://citysdk.waag.org/

46. http://citysdk.waag.org/map

48. Tapping into Creativity

49. Cases
• RT mobility data
• BAG viewer
• Parking API
• Orphaned Bikes
• Tourism in Amsterdam
• Emergency services
• City Dashboard

50. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/visualisation/

51. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/

52. Amsterdam
Barcelona
Helsinki
Lisboa
Istanbul
Manchester
Rome
Lamia

53. Smart Parking Reducing Mobility
http://www.parkshark.nl/

54. http://bomenapp.nl/

56. Smart Citizen Kit

59. Pointers
• Design Rules for Smarter Cities
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities
• Smart Citizens Publication
http://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/
• CitySDK Mobility API
http://citysdk.waag.org/api
• Open Design Now
http://opendesignnow.org/
• Smart Citizen Kit
http://www.smartcitizen.me/
• Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Business
http://www.appsforeurope.eu/

60. Piet Heinkade 181 a
1019 HC Amsterdam
waag.org
Thanks!
Frank Kresin - @kresin