The document discusses municipal innovation through open data in five cities, highlighting the availability of datasets in London, Chicago, New York, Amsterdam, and Boston. It emphasizes the benefits of open data, including improved city planning, enhanced transparency, and citizen collaboration to address urban challenges. Each city showcases unique applications of data to solve community issues, such as crime visualization in Chicago and accessibility tools for the blind in Amsterdam.

1. A TALE OF 5 CITIES & OPEN DATA
MUNICIPALITY INNOVATION HACKATHON

4. LONDON
http://data.london.gov.uk/
> 650 datasets (they
were 500 in April)
> 5,000 developers
registered only for the
transportation data
Main topics:
transportation,
education, rent and
development

5. 1. Data owned by public
entities belongs to the
public
2. Impacts the lives of
millions of people on
a daily basis
3. Saves money
4. Crowdsourcing
innovation

6. CHICAGO
Zoom in: from the
problems of the city to
the problems of the
micro community.
Open source, real time.
Customized to work
with different database
engines or APIs - you
can add your own.

8. Chicago arrest rates and total % of all crimes by
category
Chicago crime visualizations
All data in Chicago is open:
transportation, building maintenance
records, utility usage and 911
dispatches.

9. NEW YORK
> 1300 data sets
Commitment: all city
data must be open by
2018 by law
Again transport, fire
risks

10. AMSTERDAM
Smart City commitment -
including a separate website
for that
Interactive maps - combining
data to help both citizens
and tourists
Energy Atlas - maps energy
use across the city aiming at
CO2 reduction and a greener
city in general

11. OTHER
public transport data + Foursquare data =
Blindsquare (app that helps blind people get around
the city, costs 30USD on the AppStore)
Helsinki:
Street Bump - helps the city plan how and where to
spend road improvement funds
Food Police - an app for restaurant health and safety
scores.
Ungentry = census data + open data to see how
government policy impacts gentrification
Boston:

12. SOFIA
Commitment - over 300
open datasets by the end of
2016 on government level.
Gреаt developers
What more do we need?
LET’S PROVE
OPEN DATA
USEFUL!

13. Showing transparity:
Willingness to work together
Identifying problems:
looking at what people use the most gives a good idea what are the main
problems of the city
Solving problems:
you already know what the problem, use data to solve it!
Bigger team:
Increases the municipality teams on any problem by N (N = the indefinite
number of citizens who know how to use data)