The document discusses the icity project, which aims to enhance urban innovation by facilitating the opening of government information systems for third-party service development. It identifies challenges with open data, such as quality issues and a lack of standardization, while proposing a software platform to manage access and foster collaboration between governments and developers. An upcoming event, the icity camp, will gather stakeholders to discuss and develop services using the platform.

1. Marc Garriga - @mgarrigap
PMI – BES La Salle, Barcelona
October, 23rd 2014
iCity is a project of urban innovation
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2. This morning…

3. “Currently,
Open Data is a failure”

4. Is Open Data the best solution?
The hard reality: BUILDING OPEN DATA SERVICES IS,
STILL, A PAIN
REASONS/COMMENTS:
#1: “We need more data opened”.
#2: “Open the Data is expensive”.
#3: “The Law don’t enforce me to open data”.
#4: “The open data quality is so low”.
#5: “Governments open data that we don’t want”.
#6: “We need all data, we don’t want only the ‘cooked’ data”.
#7: “We need to homogenize all open data offer”.
#8: “From close data to open data… but in silos”.
#9: “I don’t know what the hell license is applicable”.
#10: “I have a strong distrust towards the government”. Etc.
Source: http://www.caldocasero.es/2013/09/por-que-no-se-reutilizan-los-datos.html

5. A real case…

6. Are you a government that is...
• Opening data?
• Collaborating with 3rd parties in co-create
public services?
• Squeezing your brain in order to have
more public services with less budget?
• Developing a control layer to manage the
access to your internal systems?
• Thinking how to harmonize the access of
your systems?
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7. Are you an enterprise that is...
• Using open data?
• Developing services that use public data?
• Squeezing your brain in order to have
more customers with less budget?
• Developing only once without increasing
costs?
• Thinking how to harmonize the access of
your systems?
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8. • An European project
• Goal:
What is iCity?
 To make easier the opening of Governments
Information Systems and offer them to third parties to
develop services of public interest.
• Main deliverables:
 A software platform that manages this access
 An engagement methodology to enrol developers
 A community formed by cities, infrastructures’ owners
and developers (SME).
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9. What is iCity Platform?
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iCity Platform
External App
1
External App
2
External App
n
API
Information System 1
Information System 2
Information System 3
Information System n
Translation layer

10. Now an example
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Just one App for all cities
ONE FOR ALL!!!
Your App 
Standard Open311 API
API manager
iCity Platform
Barcelona
Incidents and complaints
Translation layer
Lamia
Incidents and complaints
YOUR CITY/ORG HERE!
Incidents and complaints

11. What is the iCity target?
• Governments: that want go further in open data
and want co-create services with third parties.
• Managers of Information Systems: That are
opening up processes and want to foster their
use, but want to control this access.
• Developers (SME): That want to create new
services and need the access to public IT
infrastructures.
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12. What is the iCity value?
• Opening your system without doing any
additional action.
• Controlling the access of your system.
• Developing using standards.
• Developing only once… you reach a lot,
(iCity ecosystem).
• It’s a “neutral” service.
• It’s not only for public systems.
• Providing more services to citizenship.
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13. Cities involved (September, 2014)
These are the
cities involved in
iCity Project in
September, 2014.
Cities of iCity
Consortium.
Other cities
involved in iCity.
Cities that have
signed a letter of
interest.
Cities that have
interested in iCity
Project.

14. Current systems open by iCity
Barcelona Bologna Genoa London Lamia Cornellà Zaragoza AMB Private
organizations
Generic
Sensor Data
SentiloBCN Smart Citizen
Platform
Transport
and
mobility
TPER-QueryHelloBus.
TPER-QueryHelloBus4ivr.
TPER-QueryResale.
CISIUM Events.
CISIUM Metropolitan
Traffic.
CISIUM Parking.
Traffic Camera
Information.
Mobility
Data*.
Journey
Planner.
TFL.
TFL Bus Arrival*.
Smart Park
Croydon*.
BT Stride Project
(TBC)*
Public
Transportation
*
Environme
nt
Air Quality* Weather
Station.
Pollution
Data*
Air Quality. Weather
Conditions*
Smart Citizen
Platform.
Abertis Smart
Zone-Urbiòtica
Sensors.
e-Gov IRIS*. Citizen’s Desk. Alert Me. Issue
Reporting*
Complaints
and
suggestions
WiFi WiFi BCN* WiFi Use Data* Wifi Data* HotSpot
Places*
Tourism &
Culture
Agenda BCN*
Equipaments
BCN*
Notícies BCN*
Archive of films* Webcam
Tourism*
Tourism
Information*
Live
Streaming*
Agenda. Agenda*
Notícies*
GIS Geographical
Services*
Geo Coding* Geographical
Information*.
Geographical
services*
(*) Not opened yet

15. iCity Camp
• iCity Camp will be an international event
about iCity Project.
• It will be in Barcelona on:
– Friday, November, 14th
– Saturday, November, 15th
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16. iCity Camp
• The main goal of the iCity Camp is to join
all stakeholders of the iCity (governments,
developers, enterprises, experts, etc.) in a
same place during two days.
• The goal is to achieve discussions and
developments of new services using iCity
Platform.
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17. How to start with iCity
Let’s do it together !
Website
icityproject.eu
e-Mail
mgarrigap@bcn.cat
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