Pauline Riordan has worked for over 16 years in Irish local government in a number of roles including open data, strategic design, stakeholder engagement and urban planning. Since 2015 she is the manager of the Dublinked Open Data Platform and innovation network, dealing with data, smart city and research issues both regionally and internationally. Pauline has qualifications in urban planning, urban design and architecture and has a keen interest in sustainable living, future cities and new models of collaborative urbanism.

1. Data fuels the Smart City
March 8th 2016 Smart Dublin launch
Pauline Riordan, Dublinked Manager

2. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Collaborate for local solutions to global problems
•Launched October 2011
•Easy access to public
data for citizens, SME or
large organisations
•2nd Irish public Open
Data portal
•PSI licence

3. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
4 local authorities
17 data providers
>900 participants
>300 datasets
18 research data
7 dynamic data
Irish local government data in OPEN, FREE and REUSABLE formats
Access to data - create level playing field

4. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Events Planning, Technical, Spatial, Visualisation, Open Innovation, Public
Sector, Public Transport ,Linked Data, Tourism, Data Analytics, Smart Dublin……
Promote data driven innovation in the Dublin Region

5. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
• Dublin Bus GPS
every 20 seconds
• Traffic flows every
minute
• Multi-storey car
parking
• dublinbikes
• Planning applications
• Fix your street
customer requests
• Sound monitoring
Demand for dynamic data

6. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Sensors real time
• traffic counts
• air and noise pollution
• river levels
Street assets
• parking meters
• traffic lights
• street lights
• real time bus signs
Telecommunications
• Public WiFi
• CCTV
Access to expertise and infrastructure for test sites

7. Building data infrastructure and embedding quality
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
-CKAN portal
-Open Licence (CC-BY)
-Data discovery
-Building technical resource
‘Data quality is universally
awful. The good news is
its awful everywhere’
Richard Stirling, Data.gov.uk

8. Articulating vision and developing strategy
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
-Innovation and
economic
development
-Public sector cost
efficiencies
-Transparency and
open government
…..understanding
different motivations

9. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
User focus – data discovery and context

10. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Accountability and open government
-Involve civil
society and media
-Freedom of
Information
-Data requests

11. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

12. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Sharing stories of new applications and services
New
applications
that unlock
social and
economic
value

13. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

14. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Unlock new research opportunities
-Research
partnerships
-Real life testbeds for
applied research
-Spin out companies
-EU funding

15. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

16. Demonstrating value – optimise city services
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
“All these data streams are no good,
unless you can respond effectively,”

17. Outsourcing innovation– a platform for engagement
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Smart Dublin is the platform for the public sector
to engage with entrepreneurs, business,
technologists and citizens to come up with new
solutions to city region challenges

18. Challenge framing workshops
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

19. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

20. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Procurement by Challenge - SBIR

21. Understanding cycle demand - sources of data
Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
-2011 Census POWSCAR
Work and education trips
-NTA surveys
-dublinbikes
-Traffic counts
Canal cordon, cycle counters, footfall

22. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Understanding cycle behaviour - show “desire lines”

23. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Roads and streets
Cycle network – ‘green routes’
Cycle parking
Cycle infrastructure

24. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
Safety and security

25. Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region
New steps - new collaborations and engagement
• Mar 23rd Information Day
•Establishment of an advisory board
•Refine priority challenges with staff
and stakeholders
• Wider policy engagement with public