The document discusses the value of EU smart city projects in pushing technology innovation and ecosystems in cities. It notes that while many public sector staff recognize the importance of open data, many are unsure how to use it or what specific government open data initiatives exist. EU projects have helped stimulate local open data programs and impact in cities like Amsterdam by creating civic apps, code workshops, and hackathons. These projects have brought evidence and use cases around interoperable open data solutions and helped secure local policy and budget commitments to open data. They have also introduced cities to open innovation networks and technologies. The document encourages strong open innovation lobbying to capture opportunities from EU programs and create local open data ecosystems.

1. The value of EU smart city projects
To push tech innovation and ecosystems in
cities
Katalin Gallyas
Open Innovation Policy
Advisor
@KatalinG

2. Open Data Policy Elevator >>>How?
Public sector staff recognize the importance of open
data, but many are unsure how to use it. (Guardian Research,
June 2013)

3. Striking facts
“While 72% of the interviewed civil servants understood that
open data would be very important over the next three
years, 78% did not know about specific government open
data initiatives or what their benefits would be.
….and 66% did not understand their personal role in
delivering the open data agenda.”
(Source: Open Data Policy Research, Guardian, June 2013)

4. Open Data. Why?

5. Open Data Controversial for Local Governments
Open Data chances are
unrevealed for governments.
Because of ICT legacy focus,
Vendor- and Open Data
Interpretation Illiteracy
Who to choose? What to choose?
Huge range of non proprietary
and proprietary systems.
-ODP Open Data Partnership
-Open Data Institute
-Open Knowledge Foundation

6. Vocabularies Policy Makers
“What is the evidence that
we should release
datasets?”
“How many start ups have
been created since we
launched the first datasets”
“Can Open Data repair a
market failure,
inefficiency?”

7. Vendor Fusion

8. Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

9. Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

10. Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

11. Precarious Open Data Policy – Shared Data
Connected
24 hours
Elements
-Awareness raising
-Intern data exchange
-Release new datasets
-App procurement
rationalization
-Not focused on Commons,
API’s

12. What else can help to stimulate
local Open Data programs and
impact?

13. 1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for Europe

14. In 2013 10fellows worked in 7 cities throughout EU
They created 8 apps that are now shared via
Github and EuropeCommons.org

15. • September 17th
• OKCon

16. Zuid - Moving Tourists

17. Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

18. **
Programming workshop in Indische
Buurt
•Held September 7th
•Aimed to expose citizens to web development

19. The Future - Commons

20. 2. EU Open Data project: Open Cities Repository &
Hackathons

21. 2. EU project: Open Cities

22. Nearly 350 datasets available

23. 3. EU Data Project: City SDK (service development toolkit)

25. • Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders
• Business Accelerators
• Innovation Intermediaries >>
• EU Projects
• Open minded City Gov
• Participatory citizens
Spin-off effects of the EU demonstrator projects
(1) INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

26. Open Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation
Intermediaries
ICT tools,
Funding, community

27. Open Data Evolution in Amsterdam due to EU projects
• In 2010 hackers, innovation labs and SME’s, web
entrepreneurs requested the first datasets
• 28 datasets open in 2011
• >350 datasets open in 2014
• 2010 – 0 euro budget
• 2013 – 1,5 M euro budget –EU
• 2014- lobby for 1 M eur local resources and many EU project
bids
• From 2013 Open Data Program – by Amsterdam Economic
Board

28. • Awareness creation about the ‘treasures behind open
data’
• Agenda setting in Open Data Local Governance (in
Ams now budget allocation for hiring 4 full time
employee)
• Bringing evidences , user cases on interoperable and
non-proprietary smart open data solutions
(2) Spin off Effects: Local Policy Committed

29. • Fresh injections of most state of art ICT solutions,
trends (GitHub repositories, Open Source visualization
tools) into city halls
• Introducing the concept of “Commons”, “Standards”,
“civic coders”, “hackers”, “tech grassroots”
• Diving into an exclusive Open Data Catalysts- Smart
Cities network (Enoll, World Bank, OKF, ODI, Future
Cities Catapult, NESTA)
General Spin-off effects of EU smart city projects
(CIP)

30. Strong Open Innovation lobby needed:
-extern financing
-entrepreneurship & freedom for
experimentations
-create Open Data ecosystem in your city (label)
-Capture chances on Horizon2020, EUROCITIES
partner finding

31. Best Practices Open Data 2011-2014
• 30 apps have been launched
(face recognition by portrays)
• High educational impact
• Positive PR for the museum
• Reach of new younger
target group
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api -110.000 high resolution
photo’s of the collection

32. Rijksmuseum API

33. • 3 start ups coaching
• +300 datasets
• Participation in Apps4EU
• +50 civic apps
2013 – Less apps more business incubation

34. Community: Appsterdam-
2600 developers have joined
up

35. Appsterdam- 2600 developers have joined up

36. How to join the projects?
• http://codeforeurope.net/cities/
http://digitalsocial.eu/

37. How to join the projects?
>>http://connectedsmartcities.eu/strategic-
initiatives/ >>>www.eurocites.eu

38. Take aways
• Future Internet technologies are not so
obvious for city halls to experiment with
• They need external push, networks
(ConnectedSmartCities, EUROCITIES etc)
• EU projects (Horizon2020, FET)
• And: the right ambassador’s locally

39. Thank you!
Katalin Gallyas
gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl
@katalinG