Canadian municipalities are making great strides when it comes to sharing their data in fun, interactive ways. In this session, presenters will look at cities that are using their data to create useful apps and services for citizens; and describe how all community leaders can get involved to make their municipality more open and accessible.
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Open City - Edmonton
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Open City Initiative
Stephane Contre
Chief Analytics Officer
City of Edmonton
September 30, 2015
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What is Open City?
• ‘Open Government’
– City of Edmonton version
• Umbrella program
– innovative open government work
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What is Open Government?
• Access to information
• Reduction in secrecy
• Increase in accountability for resources and
actions
• Involvement of citizens in solutions
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Open Government Stages
Initial
Developing
Defined
Managed
Optimizing
Note: This is a Maturity Model transposed from the Gartner Open Government Maturity Model, June 25, 2010
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Open City Placement – Why?
Initial
Developing
Defined
Managed
Optimizing
Note: This is a Maturity Model transposed from the Gartner Open Government Maturity Model, June 25, 2010
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Public Sector Digest's Open Cities
Index 2015
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What is the
foundation for Open City?
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Information Management
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Open City Policy
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Principles
Inclusive Innovative Transparent Participatory Collaborative
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Principles – Streams of Activity
Foundational
Elements
Open
Channels
Open
Information
Open
Data
Open
Engagement
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Open Channels – 311 Mobile App
Collaborative
• Report potholes, damaged
sidewalks, damaged trees,
litter and graffiti
• Triggered by a photo - GPS
in the phone lets the City
know where
• Downloaded over 18,000
times
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Open Information - Rainfall
• Rainfall gauges found on City soccer fields
• Once 1mm of rain is collected, data is sent from
the rain gauges to the
Open Data dataset map.
• Updates every15
minutes, displaying icons
that will change in color
and size depending on the
rainfall amount and severity.
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Open Engagement – Edmonton Insight
Collaborative
• Over 3,200 members participate
in 3-5 surveys a month
• Provide input whenever
Citizen feedback is sought
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Foundational Elements – Open Access
Collaborative
• Connect the Citizens and the
City
• Partnerships with Businesses
• Open City Wi-Fi on the Light
Rail Transit Platforms
• Cell Coverage in the Light
Rail Transit Tunnels
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And Finally – Open Data
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Faces of Open City’s Open Data
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What types of Datasets are
Available?
Top 7 datasets and
visualizations
Views YTD
Datasets related to traffic 79,397
Current Road Projects 32,709
City of Edmonton - Ward
Boundaries
25,647
2015 Street Construction
Projects (Map VIEW)
14,748
24 Hour Rainfall Totals
Storm Severity - Map
10,856
Planning & Design 9,079
Sandboxes - Map View 5,576
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Annual Hackathon
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Traffic Disruptions
Provides information about what's happening on
Edmonton's roads that could impact your drive.
• major road closures
detours
• road construction
• travel delays
• special events
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311 Heat Map
• This dataset and map use the City’s 311
information to filter and display service requests
on public property
across the City.
• One can also
see the status of
service requests for
analysis of
neighbourhoods.
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Analytics Centre of Excellence
Collaborative
An Open City Initiative whose mission it to assist the
Corporation in understanding and leveraging
analytics to improve business outcomes for staff
and citizens.
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Business Analytics
Collaborative
*Gartner, Developing and Implementing a Business Analytics Program presentation, October 2014.
Gartner Analytics Ascendency Model *(modified)
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Building an Analytics Culture
Collaborative
Support the creation of an
analytical Special Interest
Group, collaboration portal,
communication plan and
training program which will
serve as a focal point for
sharing analytical expertise and
knowledge across the City.
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ACE is working
to develop a
model that will
optimize turf
maintenance
across the city.
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ACE is working
with the Edmonton
Police Service to
provide insights for
Neighborhood
Empowerment
Teams.
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What’s Next?
• Regional Community Engagement
• Identify Economic Growth Opportunities
• Continue to Engage Business & Citizens
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Open Data Impact Map
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www.busbird.com
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www.saveheat.co
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http://www.busbird.com/
http://www.mapdwell.com/en
http://www.saveheat.co/
www.mapdwell.com/en
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Awareness
Workshops
Collision
Summits
Health- November 2015
Data/Analytics- February 2016
Transportation/Logistics- April 2016
Appathon- June 2016
Open Data and Analytics- October 2015
Economic Benefits of Open Data
December 2015
Regional Open Data Collaboration & More!