The document summarizes information about Sheffield City Council and their new open data initiative. It provides background on Sheffield and the City Council, including their budget cuts. It then discusses the Council's new web strategy and open data plan, including initial datasets being released and future plans to hold an Open Data Summit. It encourages readers to get involved by joining an Open Data Group and discussing potential apps or uses of the newly available public data.

1. Sheffield, the City Council and you

2. The City of Sheffield
● Town charter 10 August 1297
● City status 1893
● Coordinates:
● 53°23′01″N
● 1°28′01″W
● 224,667 dwellings
● 534,500 people live in this
area, 38.5 years old on
averag, 10% students, 15.5%
BME
● area 142.1 sq mi (367.94
km2
)

3. Sheffield City Council
● 84 councillors elected
to represent 28 wards
● LibDem controlled
● expenditure £1.25bn
● expecting 25% cuts in
budgets over the next
3 years

4. Web Strategy
● A strategy for a Connected City
● To join together the citizens and businesses of
the city, with the Council as the steward
● Open data is included in that strategy

5. Open data
● The providing of (government) data in formats
and with licenses that allow it to be reused by
anyone to provide:
● transparency
● accountability
● innovation
● value
● Proposed by Tim Berners-Lee
● Supported by Gordon Brown's Government
● Adopted by the Coalition Government

6. Open data from Sheffield City
Council
● What is stopping them:
● understanding
● time
● perceived risk
● time/effort
● no visibility of the benefits

7. All change
● The council is opening data TODAY
● Road grit bin locations
● Road gritting priority routes
● Care homes
● reading groups
● library book purchases
● mobile library routes
● playground locations
● schools
● air quality and weather data

8. You
● Do you want this data to make:
● web apps?
● mobile apps?
● investigations?
● sense of the world?
● money?
● basically, to make good things

9. Open it and they will build

10. Open it and they will build
Bollocks!
This is the beginning of a relationship

11. What are the Council's intentions
● Support GIST in starting an Open Data Group
● Put on (through GIST) an Open Data Summit
for the city in January
● council staff
● other public sector staff
● other data 'owners'
● developers, citizens, and open data buffs
● Continue to support the community in making
the most of the data available

12. What now?
● join the open data group on GIST Hub
● take a look at the data
● clean/convert it (PLEASE)
● talk about what you could build
● talk to me or Chris Stewart about what data
you'd really like to see

13. Thank you.
Any questions?