Urban Data Talks #4 Presentation - Presentation by Jaime Ventura (Porto Digital) providing insights into the creation of Porto's open data platform, its internal workings and use cases realised on top of it.

1. Building Porto’s Open Data
Platform
Urban Data Talks #4

2. About me
š Worked for Porto Digital in the last 4 years, as Head of Urban Platform, Data Analysis and
Digital Services.
š Member of OASC’s Technical Council since 2019
š OASC’s team member for EU projects such as ELISE and dRural

3. About Porto
š Largest city in the north of Portugal (second in the country)
š 230 thousand inhabitants
š 1.8 million in the metropolitan area

4. About Porto Digital
š Porto Digital Association is a private non-profit
association;
š It was created in 2004 by the Municipality of Porto, the
University of Porto and the Portuguese Business
Association (AEP), in cooperation with the company
Metro of Porto;
š Created to promote ICT projects within the context of the
city of Porto and its metropolitan area.

5. Goals
Have a integrated (but flexible, elastic and
open) solution for:
• (Context) Data access and management
• Data-driven decision making (daily
management)
• Data-drive policy making (medium/long
term management)
• (Open) Data Publishing

6. Context Data
TRAFFIC
50 Cars/minute
311
Damaged traffic light
NOISE
30 dBa
AIR QUALITY
CO: 318
NO2: 71.4
311
pothole
Weather
Temperature: 18º
Wind: 10m/s
PARKING
SPOT
Status: occupied
TRAFFIC
31 Cars/minute
NOISE
10 dBa

7. Context Data Sources
š Sensors
š Video analytics
š Telecommunication companies
š Municipality systems
š Mobility Providers
š National Organisations
š …

8. Context Data

9. Context Data

10. Data driven decisions making
(example – Issue Tracking)

11. Data driven decisions making
(example – weather)

12. Data driven decisions making
(example – e-scooter usage/misusage)

13. Data driven decisions for policy making
(example – wifi expansion)

14. Data driven decisions for policy making
(example – wifi expansion)

15. Data driven decisions for policy making
(example – wifi expansion)

16. Data driven decisions for policy making
(example – electric vehicle fleet)

17. 21:00
>3 thousands tons of CO2
Data driven decisions for policy making
(example – electric vehicle fleet)

18. The Urban Data Platform

19. The Urban Data Platform

20. Open Data Project
Goals:
š Government Transparency
š Active Citizenship
š Operational Efficiency
š Innovation

21. The Strategy
Perform an assessment on the existing scenario:
š Which data exist
š How is it managed/processed
š Where is it stored
š Who is the owner and the periodicity of update
š …
š Define a Data Valuation Strategy, and create a Plan for the Management and Valuation
of Municipality’s Data.

22. The Strategy
The Index
The Opendata Portal
The Governance and management

23. The Indexer
š Owned by the municipality and accessed only by its workers
š Index all the existing data into datasets and:
š Allow searching
š Provide a preview of that data
š Provide metadata
š * Producer/owner
š * Update periodicity
š * Classification
š * …

24. The OpenData Portal
š Provide similar features as the
Index (indexing, searching,…) but
only for opendata
š Accessible by humans, but also
by machines (throught an API)

25. The technical solution

26. Thank you
Jaime Ventura
jaimeventura@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/jaimeventura