The document discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with open data in the context of Amsterdam's Smart City initiative. It highlights the need for collaboration between local governments, startups, and the public to fully exploit the potential of open data, emphasizing issues such as data visualization, interoperability, and the role of external financing. Various projects and strategies are mentioned to foster an open data ecosystem, stressing the importance of internal capacity building for cities to effectively navigate the big data landscape.

1. Open Data Framing Amsterdam
Smart City Event 2014,14th May 2014, Amsterdam
Katalin Gallyas
Open Innovation Policy
Advisor
@KatalinG

2. Open Data Controversial for Local Governments
Open Data chances are unrevealed
for governments.
Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy
but curiosity (something big,
exciting with Open Data is coming)
Who to choose? What to choose?
-Linked Data
-Data Visualization
-Data Mining are unexploited
Loc Gov need a helping hand and
collaboration on Open Data

3. Vendor Fusion

4. 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?”

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

6. Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

7. Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

8. Precarious Open Data Policies launched
so far by cities.
Connected
24 hours
Focus: opening of a massive amount of data YES
External promotion of data-hackathons YES
NOT YET or LIMITED:
-Big Data Strategy
-Meaning behind data (visualization, mining)
-Interoperability of open data based apps
-Civic App Store

9. Injecting Open Data best
practices through EU projects to
cities (Amsterdam case)

10. 1. EU Open Data Fueling Project: Code for Europe-
WORKING WITH CODERS

11. Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

12. The First Civic App Store in Europe launched

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

14. HARMONIZED INTERFACES for CIVIC APPS,
USE OF API’s
TOURISM : EXPERIMENTATIONS WITH SENSORS
Tourist’s movements in cities

15. Our Open Data Portal (CKAN based)

16. • Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders
• Business Accelerators
• Innovation Intermediaries >>
• EU Projects
• Open minded Local Gov
• Participatory citizens
Amsterdam – Strong Open Data Ecosystem partners

17. Complementary Ecosystem Partners
Innovation
Intermediaries
ICT tools,
Funding, community

18. Transport Data Push

19. Cultural API demonstrator
• 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

20. Rijksmuseum API

21. Community App Developers
Appsterdam- 2600 developers
have joined up

22. Open Data Observations
1. Open Data Catalysts are strongly dependent on
external financing and networking - Liberate open data
agents!
2. Vocabularies match between policy makers and open
data catalyst
3. Produce user cases to discover the enormous
underexploited value of data
4. Be careful with corporate Big Data providers
5. Encourage cities to move toward Commons, peer
reviewed open data vendors

23. Open Data Observations
6. Fresh injections of most state of art ICT solutions, trends
(GitHub repositories, Open Source visualization tools) into
city halls
7. Introducing the concept of “Commons”, “Standards”,
“civic coders”, “hackers”, “tech grassroots”
8. Diving into an exclusive Open Data Catalysts- Smart Cities
network (Enoll, World Bank, OKF, ODI, Future Cities
Catapult, NESTA)
9. Promote interoperable app interfaces/sharing

24. Strong Open Data lobby needed:
>>KEEP EYES WIDE SHUT<<
-extern financing
-entrepreneurship & freedom for
experimentations
-create Open Data ecosystem in your city (label)
-Capture chances on Horizon2020, EUROCITIES
partner finding

25. But most important lesson learnt for cities
>>BE INTERNALLY INVINCIBLE<<
-Build distributed internal capacities,
Knowledge around Open Data
Tools, standards
-Cities are vulnerable on the Big Data market
without a solid knowledge

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